Lead Integration Engineer

Company Overview Every firm has a culture – the values, beliefs, methodology, attitudes and standards that reflect an organization’s DNA. But the truly inspiring firms – the game-changers, the industry leaders and the disruptors – have cultures that propel them to innovate and stand out. At Brown Advisory, we aim to be one of those inspired firms. Over the years, we have purposefully built and nurtured our client-first culture.

Brown Advisory is an independent investment management and strategic advisory firm committed to delivering a combination of first-class performance, strategic advice and the highest level of client service. The firm’s clients—including individuals, families, family offices, endowments, foundations, charities, institutions, consultants, and financial intermediaries—are served by over 1,000 colleagues worldwide, all of whom are equity owners of the firm.

Position Summary:

The Lead Integration Engineer is a hands-on engineering role responsible for designing and building system-to-system integrations, APIs, data pipelines, and vendor platform connectivity solutions. The role focuses on API strategy, microservice architecture, middleware patterns, data integration, and scalable service design that support Wealth and Asset Management and portfolio management, e.g. Addepar, client platforms, advisory tools, financial operations, and reporting workflows. The Lead Integration Engineer partners with business, technology, data, security, compliance, and vendor teams to translate firm strategy into system designs, integration specifications, implementation plans and production solutions.

This role will provide engineering leadership for integrations involving Canoe, Snowflake, Addepar, portfolio and client reporting platforms and related enterprise services. The position requires strong experience in highly regulated financial services environments, practical knowledge of asset management operating models, and the ability to design secure, resilient, observable, and maintainable platforms that support business transformation, automation, analytics, and operational efficiency. This role is expected to own both technical design and hands-on implementation.

Successful candidates should enjoy solving engineering problems and contributing directly to production solutions.

The primary duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Design, develop, test, and deploy integration patterns for Canoe, Snowflake, Addepar, portfolio management platforms, client advisory tools, reporting platforms, accounting and finance systems, and external vendor ecosystems.

Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, engineers, data teams, security, infrastructure, and vendors to translate business strategy into practical technology delivery roadmaps.

Establish technical standards for API design, service decomposition, data contracts, authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, resiliency, and lifecycle management.

Lead an engineering workstream through system design, enhancements, integration delivery, testing, release planning, and production support transition.

Support and enhance systems in a highly regulated financial environment, including controls for data quality, privacy, security, auditability, and operational resilience.

Provide technical leadership for integrations that automate alternative investment document collection, data extraction, data normalization, downstream reporting, and operational workflows.

Advance Snowflake-centered data integration patterns, including secure data ingestion, transformation, sharing, consumption, governance, and integration with analytics and reporting platforms.

Lead technical design reviews, technical risk assessments, vendor design…