Director, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture
$200k - $275k USD
About ATLAS SP Partners
ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm providing stable funding, financing, advisory and institutional products to market participants seeking innovative and bespoke structured credit and asset-backed solutions. Our experienced team works closely with clients to determine optimal approaches for capital optimization and goal achievement, leveraging a holistic suite of integrated capabilities – including asset and portfolio advisory, warehouse and acquisition financing, whole loan purchase and sale, and securitization and distribution. ATLAS is proud to build upon a legacy of client excellence, distinguished by certainty of execution, deep expertise, and comprehensive service across the asset management landscape.
Our Culture
ATLAS operates as “one team” where every individual makes an impact. We grow together, win together, and embrace change as a unified organization. Our commitment extends beyond advancing markets, and we strive to make a meaningful difference in our communities and for our clients. Our people are industry leaders, driven by a passion for client service, complex problem solving, and innovation. We foster professional and personal growth in a collaborative, inclusive environment, and are proud to build upon a legacy of excellence anchored in deep expertise and client service across the asset management landscape.
Position Overview
The Enterprise & Solutions Architecture will own the firm’s enterprise architecture foundation and guide how technology supports the business as it scales. This person will define core architecture standards, shape integration and data-flow patterns, oversee the messaging strategy, and ensure systems evolve in a coherent, secure, and efficient way.
The role blends enterprise architecture with hands-on solutioning. The Director will partner directly with engineering leads, vendor teams, and business stakeholders to design technical solutions for a wide range of needs, from vendor platform integrations to bespoke internal builds. This leader must be commercially minded and comfortable rolling up their sleeves in a dynamic environment while also providing strategic architectural leadership.
Financial services experience is essential, along with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across a fast-moving organization.
Primary Responsibilities
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- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
- Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference models, and best practices.
- Define the target-state architecture across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure.
- Guide system modernization efforts, including platform refactoring, cloud optimization, and architectural simplification.
- Solutions Architecture
- Work directly with technology and business stakeholders to translate business needs into practical, scalable, secure technical designs.
- Lead solution design reviews and provide architectural oversight for projects delivered by internal teams or external vendors.
- Provide hands-on design support during project delivery, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long-term architecture goals.
- Partner with engineering to ensure solutions align with enterprise principles and long-term strategy.
- Integration & Messaging Architecture
- Own the firm’s integration strategy, including patterns, tooling, and governance.
- Design and evolve messaging and eventing frameworks to support reliable, real-time, and batch data flows.
- Oversee integrations across critical systems (internal and vendor platforms), ensuring performance, resilience, and data quality.
- Technology Risk, Security, and Compliance Alignment
- Ensure solution designs follow security best practices, identity and access patterns, and regulatory expectations relevant to financial services.
- Collaborate with risk, security, and audit teams to ensure architectures support resilience, recoverability, and appropriate controls.
- Application Portfolio & Lifecycle Management
- Maintain visibility into the full application and integration landscape.
- Identify simplification opportunities, redundancy, technical debt, and modernization needs.
- Guide deprecation, consolidation, and long-term lifecycle planning.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with peers across technology, operations, finance, risk, and investment teams to co-design solutions.
- Communicate complex concepts in clear, accessible language for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Act as a trusted advisor to technology and business leaders, helping shape technology decisions and investment priorities.
- Hands-On Contribution
- Perform deep-dive analysis during solution design, issue investigation, or integration troubleshooting.
- Contribute lightweight prototyping, architecture diagrams, data-flow modeling, and vendor evaluation.
- Enterprise Architecture Leadership
Qualification and Experience
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- Required
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or senior technical leadership roles.
- Strong experience designing systems within financial services (asset management, credit, capital markets, or related domains).
- Broad knowledge of application, data, integration, and cloud architectures.
- Experience defining integration frameworks, messaging patterns, and API strategies.
- Experience with enterprise architecture tools, modeling frameworks, or governance processes.
- Track record of working across vendor platforms and custom-built systems.
- Strong communication skills, clear writing, structured thinking, and effective presentation.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to influence without authority.
- Willingness to be hands-on in a lean, fast-moving environment.
- Preferred
- Experience designing or supporting enterprise data platforms, workflow engines, or event-driven systems.
- Background with Azure cloud services, data pipelines, and identity/SSO patterns.
- Prior work in high-growth, entrepreneurial, or transformation-driven environments.
- Required
Base Salary Range
$200,000-$275,000
The base salary range for this position is listed above. This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus based on personal, team, and Firm performance. Compensation ranges are based on several factors including job function, level, and geographic location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed here.
ATLAS SP is an equal opportunity employer. The firm and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other criteria prohibited under controlling federal, state or local law.