Head of Platform Architecture

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Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you. Role Summary At T. Rowe Price, the mission of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) function is to empower the firm to achieve its strategic objectives through the optimal use of technology. The EA function will align technology with business capabilities to enable effective strategy execution and business transformation.

By monitoring and adopting emerging technologies, EA will drive technology enabled innovation and keep the firm ahead of industry disruption.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Platforms Architectureto join our team. This role will provide enterprise-level leadership and direction for platform and infrastructure architecture, with accountability for strategy, standards, roadmaps, governance, and operating model alignment across multiple technology domains and teams. The role will lead directly and through senior architects, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners to deliver scalable, secure, and business-aligned technology platforms.

This role will also be playing a lead role in M&A technology due diligence and integration planning, applying platform architecture to accelerate integration and synergy generation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in enterprise architecture, excellent leadership abilities, and a comprehensive understanding of both technical platform ecosystems that accelerate software delivery, and underlying infrastructure design, including but not limited to cloud, networking, compute, storage, and end user computing.

Focus:

Oversee enterprise perspective on common enterprise platforms that are leveraged firm-wide to unlock scalability and improved productivity.

Drive for common standards and usage of platforms and infrastructure across the firm while pushing to eliminate legacy redundancy.

Leverage the voice of engineers and software development lifecycle as a guide, to define the future state of technical platforms, which absorbs heaving liftings of solving recurring technical problems into the platform layer, and free up developers to focus on business features.

Focus the future state architecture across public cloud and on premise infrastructure at the conceptual and logical level, and partner closely with platform engineering, and infrastructure teams to translate into physical design.

Design and oversee the operating model for platform and infrastructure architecture across multiple teams, ensuring clear ownership, decision rights, review forums, and lifecycle accountability for enterprise technology platforms.

Spearhead M&A technology due diligence, integration planning, execution of integrating infrastructure and technology landscape between T Rowe Price and…