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. The role requires someone who can move from business and domain context to detailed solution design and into code, prototypes, troubleshooting, and day-to-day engineering decisions.

The Principal Engineer / Technical Architect will define and validate application architecture for enterprise modernization initiatives across Wealth and Asset Management environment. You will own detailed technical design, work directly with engineering teams, review and contribute production-quality code, and guide modernization of legacy and distributed systems. 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 detailed solution design across application services, APIs, event-driven integrations, data persistence, security, and deployment, translating target architecture into implementable HLD/LLD and engineering patterns.
• Work hands-on with engineering teams by writing and reviewing code, building POCs and technical spikes, validating frameworks, troubleshooting complex issues, and setting practical implementation standards.
• Design resilient cloud-native and distributed systems using Azure or AWS, containers/Kubernetes, microservices and serverless patterns, with explicit consideration for scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Define reusable API and integration patterns using REST/OpenAPI, API gateways, asynchronous messaging and event streaming such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or Azure Event Hubs, including third-party and legacy integrations.
• Drive legacy modernization using approaches such as strangler patterns, service extraction, refactoring, data replication, and controlled coexistence so critical business processing can migrate without disruption.
• Define fit-for-purpose persistence and caching patterns across relational databases, No
  
  SQL/document stores, and Redis or equivalent technologies, with clear choices around transactions, consistency, concurrency, and performance.
• Embed security and privacy into detailed designs, including enterprise IAM, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, secrets management, encryption, auditability, entitlement controls, and protection of sensitive financial and participant data.
• Establish engineering practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated quality gates, observability, logging, metrics, tracing, and production diagnostics so systems are supportable after release.
• Partner with product owners, business SMEs, enterprise architects, and engineering leads…