Technical Architect – Wealth and Retirement

At Bridgenext, we engineer Growth Operating Systems. Most enterprises have spent millions on their revenue stack and still aren't seeing the growth they expected.

They have tools that function, but no system that wins. We help growth-hungry companies close that gap by turning fragmented platforms, siloed teams, and disconnected data into one integrated Growth OS. More than a technology company or marketing agency, we're a global digital consultancy with experts in engineering, data, AI, creative and more.

Our teams are made up of experts who believe in engineering impact, starting with putting people at the center of everything we do. Every team member directly shapes our work, culture, and values. Nothing matters more to us than a kind, respectful, fulfilling environment that supports everyone. Our flexible, inclusive culture gives you the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to thrive.

Bridgenext is seeking a Principal Engineer / Technical Architect with deep hands-on engineering experience and demonstrated domain knowledge in US Retirement, wealth management, asset management, or adjacent financial services platforms.

This role will play a key part in the modernization of a business-critical retirement recordkeeping landscape built on legacy Visual Fox Pro applications and data components, as plans transition onto a modern SaaS recordkeeping platform and the legacy environment is progressively retired. The architect will work closely with long-tenured business and technology SMEs to capture system knowledge, understand undocumented or partially documented business logic, reverse-engineer existing applications where necessary, and ensure each capability is either carried correctly onto the target platform or deliberately retired.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of legacy application understanding, retirement recordkeeping conversion experience, and modern cloud engineering depth. They should be comfortable moving from Visual Fox Pro code, data structures, batch processes, integrations, and embedded business rules to the design of data conversion, integration, and service layers on Azure and Java-based platforms.

This is not primarily a legacy application support role, and it is not a line-by-line code rewrite. The objective is to understand and safely transition critical business capabilities from the existing environment into a modern technology platform, while protecting business continuity and preserving complex Wealth and Retirement domain logic. The architect will determine which legacy behaviors the target recordkeeping platform absorbs natively, which must be built as surrounding services, and which can be retired.

Deep US Retirement / retirement plan recordkeeping experience is strongly preferred; strong wealth or asset management experience with transferable domain depth will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical discovery and modernization of legacy Visual Fox Pro applications, including application components, business rules, data structures, interfaces, batch processes, reports, and operational dependencies, and define the technical path to retire them as business moves to the target platform.
• Work directly with existing business and technology SMEs to drive structured knowledge transfer and knowledge capture, converting institutional knowledge into sustainable technical documentation, architecture artifacts, domain models, and implementation specifications.
• Analyze and reverse-engineer existing Visual Fox Pro applications and undocumented or partially documented code to identify critical business rules, processing flows, data dependencies, integrations, exception handling, and operational behaviors.
• Develop…