What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Architect position at Western Asset?
Job Description
Your skills will drive our future
Western Asset’s Enterprise Solution Architect will lead the technical architectural design and execution across Trading, Risk, Compliance, Operations, Sales, Business Intelligence and other related systems to drive competitive advantages for the firm. You will work closely with and help lead cross functional teams consisting of application developers, data engineers, infrastructure engineers, product owners and key stakeholders to develop solutions that create technical leverage and highly resilient systems across the platform.
As the lead Enterprise Architect, you will influence the technology stack and overall system design to ensure applications are engineered in a highly performant, scalable, resilient and maintainable fashion using the state-of-the-art development practices. The role will include hands-on work across multiple development teams and applications including prototyping, reviewing code, introducing new design patterns, technologies and development processes. The role requires someone who is high-energy, driven, collaborative, articulate, proactive, results-oriented and sensitive to the needs of each unique stakeholder group.
What you will do
- Understand and ensure the technical architecture of Western systems are engineered in a modern, scalable, performant, resilient, and maintainable fashion using state-of-the-art engineering and development processes
- Make leading contributions and influence senior technical team members and peers on overall firm-wide technical architecture, roadmap, and processes
- Collaborate with, influence and lead teams to ensure alignment and continual realization of target architecture specifications and goals as well as ensure realization of high-velocity Agile teams
- Provide strong leadership, guidance and direction related to cloud service delivery and legacy application transformation
- Partner with the CISO to ensure adherence to security and compliance safeguards, policies and procedure
- Lead teams in conducting evaluations and proof of concept activities in assessing new technologies to address business needs
- Continually survey, understand, communicate, prototype, and introduce new technologies and techniques from the marketplace into our architecture and development process
Prove the power of Scalable Architecture
As a senior member of the IT management team, you’ll be empowered to drive the technical architecture and execution strategy to help implement it. Success depends on an entrepreneurial mindset, along with an awareness of the demands of a highly regulated business. Leadership experience is essential and you’ll be expected to take a hands-on approach supporting the team to solve complex problems.
What you will bring
- Proven track record of leading architecture across large and complex technology platforms
- Senior management experience leading teams across custom software development, data and technical design for both object oriented and service oriented architectures
- Experience leveraging enterprise design patterns using modern technologies (e.g. AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, DevOps, JVM)
- Experience with Kafka, Flink and other modern technologies used in scalable, streaming, fault tolerant solutions
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence engineers, peers, and senior stakeholders to consensus decisions
- Ability to effectively understand and translate asset management business needs into the required optimal technical architecture
- Bachelors or advanced degree in relevant field
About Western Asset
At Western Asset we’re saying hello to the future. Committed to being the leading fixed-income investment management firm in the world, we’re investing in new technologies, methodologies and markets. We’re also investing in our people. Our business is guided by a belief in doing the right thing: that if we treat our clients and colleagues with fairness and respect, success will follow. We’re building on our reputation and resources with an entrepreneurial approach that drives innovation. Every day is an opportunity for us to get better by making the most of the possibilities that our people and ideas can bring.