Senior Application Architect - Assistant Vice President

As a hands onTechnical Architect, you will be responsible forend-to-end architecture, design, and implementationof mission-critical systems. You will define both macro and micro level architecture and implement with engineering teams tomodernize a VC++ platform into Reacts JS/Java based event based high throughput, low latency micro services based platform, ensuring alignment withcloud-native principles.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Platform Design

• Define and evolve thearchitecture for adistributed, cloud-native Investment Accounting platform, aligned with enterprise principles (scalability, resiliency, availability).

• Designmodular microservices architectures, ensuring clear service boundaries, domain-driven design, and reusability across business capabilities.

• Establishevent-driven architecture patterns for real-time processing, enabling decoupled and scalable workflows.

• Definedata architecture and integration patterns, including unified data models, event contracts, and consistency strategies across IBOR/ABOR domains.

• Hands on experience and capability to walk the talk is critical. This is not architecture only role.

Modernization Leadership (VC++ → Java)

• Lead themodernization of legacy VC++ systems into Java-based, distributed services

• Definemigration patterns, decomposition strategies, and phased transformation roadmaps

• Ensurefunctional equivalence where required, while enabling architectural evolution beyond legacy constraints

• Guide teams ontranslating low-level C++ constructs into scalable Java service patterns (stateless services, async processing, etc.)

Performance, Throughput & Scalability

• Architect systems forhigh-throughput transaction processing and near real-time accounting workflows

• Definecache-driven design strategies (distributed caching, in-memory processing, read/write optimization)

• Establish performance benchmarks, scalability patterns, and capacity planning principles

Cloud-Native & Engineering

• Design and implement forcloud-native(containerization, orchestration, DevSecOps).

• Establish cross-cutting capabilities:

  • Observability (logging, metrics, tracing) for operational intelligence

  • Resiliency patterns (retry, circuit breaker, idempotency)

  • Security and compliance controls

• EnsureAPI-first and contract-first design principlesare adhered to.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive experience insoftware architecture and distributed systems design

• Strong programming background inVC++ and Java, with proven experience in system modernization.

• Rich experience with AWS/Azure along with modern CICD platforms and pipeline as code.

• Deep expertise in:

  • Event-driven architectures

  • Microservices and domain-driven design

  • High-performance and low-latency systems

• Experience buildinglarge-scale distributed systems with low latency and high throughput

• Strong understanding ofdata consistency, transaction processing, and accounting-like systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience inInvestment Accounting / Financial Services platforms (transactions, valuations, positions, multi-currency processing)

• Familiarity with:

  • Observability and operational intelligence frameworks

  • Unified data models and ledger-based architectures

• Experience working inregulatory and audit-heavy environments (traceability, reconciliation.

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