Software Engineering Architect

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and technology roadmap for Cash Management, Collateral Management, DSS, and Portfolio Master platforms.
• Partner with business leadership to align technology investments with strategic business objectives.
• Help establish architectural standards, design patterns, integration frameworks, and engineering guardrails across multiple technology domains.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that improve business capabilities and operational efficiency.

• Drive enterprise cloud adoption initiatives utilizing Azure, Open Shift, Kubernetes, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Develop architectural strategies for application modernization, containerization, and migration from on-premises platforms to cloud-native and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Define enterprise CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , observability, operational resilience, and reliability patterns.
• Establish reference architectures and reusable frameworks that accelerate delivery across engineering teams.

• Define architectural patterns supporting portfolio, investment, and operational data across DSS and Portfolio Master ecosystems.
• Develop data integration strategies leveraging APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern data platforms.
• Promote adoption of Microsoft AI technologies, including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and engineering productivity.

• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across multiple delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads, and solution architects on architecture best practices and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams, and strategic partners to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Participate in enterprise architecture councils, design reviews, and technology governance forums.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture experience.
• Significant experience within Investment Management, Asset Management, Capital Markets, or Financial Services.
• Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise-scale systems supporting investment operations, portfolio management, cash management, collateral management, or investment data platforms.
• Deep expertise designing cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services, Azure Dev Ops, Open Shift, Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience defining enterprise application modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, messaging technologies, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with modern data platforms including Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with Microsoft AI technologies including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.
• Strong understanding of Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, resilience, and operational excellence practices.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Deep expertise in cash processing, liquidity management, collateral management, margining, collateral optimization, and operational risk controls.
• Strong understanding of trade settlement, reconciliation, accounting, and post-trade processing workflows.
• Experience with Charles River, Eagle, Acadia Margin Manager, Calypso, or similar investment management platforms.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, and other cloud automation technologies.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Base Salary Range: $ - $. This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.

MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company-sponsored 401(k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider
• Education Assistance:
  Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually
• Education Assistance:
  Access to discounted tutors and college…