Financial Systems Architect

Job Title : Financial Systems Architect

Location : Hybrid in New York, NY (10019)

Duration : Full-Time / Permanent

Position Summary

The Financial Systems Architect combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strategic architectural oversight to ensure financial applications operate securely, efficiently, and in alignment with the organization’s digital transformation goals.

This role offers a highly competitive compensation package, exceptional benefits, and the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment with strong support for professional growth.

Responsibilities

• Define, document, and evolve the technical architecture for financial systems—including application, data, and infrastructure layers—to ensure performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Oversee and support backend operations for Elite 3E and other financial applications, including configuration, database management, and system monitoring.
• Collaborate with IT teams to maintain servers, databases, and middleware that host financial applications; ensure availability, redundancy, and recovery strategies are in place.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex technical issues within financial systems; identify root causes and implement long-term performance improvements.
• Design and manage APIs, ETL pipelines, and middleware integrations connecting financial systems with enterprise platforms such as data warehouses and reporting tools.
• Partner with AI and application development teams to design and implement AI-driven workflows, predictive analytics, and LLM-based automation within financial systems such as Elite 3E and future matter-intake solutions.
• Establish and enforce standards for access control, data security, change management, and compliance.
• Provide architectural guidance to engineers and analysts, ensuring alignment with best practices and long-term platform strategy; serve as the subject matter expert for financial system architecture.

Qualifications