Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

The Opportunity:

Flywire is seeking a Head of Architecture to serve as the strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer and lead the evolution of Flywires enterprise architecture. This leader will define the long-term architecture strategy for our global payments platform while ensuring our technology ecosystem scales with Flywires continued growth.

This role will be responsible for establishing architecture standards guiding major platform decisions and driving evolution and modernization across Flywires technology stack. The Head of Architecture will partner closely with engineering leadership product teams and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment of direction goals and roadmaps. 

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced enterprise architect who has built and scaled global platforms in complex distributed environments and thrives operating at the intersection of technology strategy and engineering execution. The head of Architecture is first and foremost passionate about Technology leads with AI first mindset detailed oriented and hands on when required. 

Key Responsibilities:
Enterprise Architecture Leadership:

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywires global payments platform and software solutions. 
• Establish architecture standards across application platform data and infrastructure layers.
• Drive architectural alignment foster a culture of technical excellence and architectural discipline across engineering teams operating globally.
• Build and mentor a small team of domain and platform architects.

Technology Governance:

• Lead initiatives to modernize and rationalize different legacy systems and evolve Flywires common platform architecture.
• Guide the adoption of modern architecture patterns including microservices cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. 
• Establish architecture governance frameworks including architecture review boards and design standards.
• Ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability security and compliance requirements while containing or reducing technical debt.

Strategic Technology Leadership:

• Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO on technology investment decisions and platform evolution.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of innovations that improve engineering velocity and platform capabilities.
• Lead technical due diligence process during M&A and strategic partnership initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner closely with engineering product infrastructure and security teams to ensure architectural alignment across initiatives.
• Work with global engineering teams across multiple regions to drive consistent architecture standards

Qualifications :

Heres What Were Looking For:

• 15 years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles.
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect Chief Architect or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale technology environments.
• Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transaction workloads.
• Strong background in microservices architectures APIs and event-driven systems.
• Experience operating in complex regulated industries such as fintech payments or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and drive architectural standards across distributed teams.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to partner across engineering product and executive leadership.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate Technology matters across the company and including C suite. 
• Experience leading architecture initiatives within global engineering organizations.
• Open to Chicago IL or Austin TX

Additional Information :

Submit today and get started!
 

We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager and other Flymates. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your go-to person for questions.

Flywire is an equal opportunity employer and follows a policy of administering all employment decisions and personnel actions without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy gender identity national origin age ancestry physical or mental disability sexual orientation genetic disposition or carrier status veteran status or any other category protected under applicable national federal state or local law.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $245000-$295000 plus bonus and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role position level and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and several other factors including job-related skills experience relevant education and training. 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time