Architect: Risk, Marketing and Admin Systems

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Information Technology department in our Chicago office, as an Architect:
Risk, Marketing, and Admin Systems.

The Architect:
Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems will be a senior technical leader within the Risk, Marketing & Admin Systems team, which serves the Business Services groups across the firm with solutions to achieve productivity, collaboration, and uniformity. This position focuses on enterprise business applications, complex data integration architectures, in-house developed solutions, vended solutions, and cloud platforms to support the firm's evolving technology needs.

The Architect:
Risk, Marketing and Admin Systems is responsible for architecting, building, enhancing, integrating, supporting, and managing the Firm's critical business applications and data ecosystems using Microsoft's development stack (.NET, ASP.NET, C#, MVVM and MVC Patterns, Web APIs, and microservices architectures). This role serves as a senior technical authority who partners with management to review code quality, validate deployment strategies, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices across the team's portfolio.

This position encompasses a mixture of technical leadership, software architecture, project responsibility, advanced software engineering, data integration strategy, third-party configuration/integration, and senior-level support.

Essential Functions:

• Serves as the primary technical decision-maker for assigned initiatives, defining technical scope, architecture, and objectives for complex business application solutions with minimal direction
• Designs, develops, and implements enterprise business applications with expertise in cloud-based deployments, API development, and scalable application architectures
• Architects comprehensive data integration solutions connecting business applications with internal and external systems, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and optimal performance
• Leads the design and implementation of data pipelines, ETL processes, and real‑time data synchronization using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), Azure Data Factory, custom APIs, stored procedures, message queues, and middleware platforms
• Designs and implements data validation frameworks, quality monitoring, and reconciliation processes to ensure accuracy and completeness of integrated data across systems
• Partners with management to conduct code reviews, validate deployment strategies, and provide technical sign-off to ensure adherence to coding standards, security best practices, and production readiness
• Maintains, enhances, and refactors existing business applications while staying current with evolving dependencies and emerging technologies
• Collaborates with engineers and administrators in a Dev Ops culture to drive efficiency, overcome obstacles, and promote continuous improvement across solutions and team practices
• Develops software solutions in short sprints within an Agile framework, reviewing user stories and providing technical guidance on feasibility and implementation approaches
• Mentors junior and mid-level team members by reviewing code, providing constructive feedback,…