Technical Architect, Integration Development

Role Overview

• Lead solution architecture for API, microservice, middleware, event-driven, and data integration models across enterprise systems.
• Design and govern integration patterns for Canoe, Snowflake, Addepar, portfolio management platforms, client advisory tools, reporting platforms, accounting and finance systems, and external vendor ecosystems.
• Drive design, planning, execution, and delivery of enhancements for portfolio management, client platforms, financial operations, advisory tools, and enterprise data workflows.
• Partner with product owners, business stakeholders, engineers, data teams, security, infrastructure, and vendors to translate business strategy into practical technology delivery roadmaps.
• Establish technical standards for API design, service decomposition, data contracts, authentication, authorization, monitoring, logging, resiliency, and lifecycle management.
• Lead an engineering workstream through system design, enhancements, integration delivery, testing, release planning, and production support transition.
• Support and enhance enterprise systems in a highly regulated financial environment, including controls for data quality, privacy, security, auditability, and operational resilience.
• Provide technical leadership for integrations that automate alternative investment document collection, data extraction, data normalization, downstream reporting, and operational workflows.
• Advance Snowflake-centered data integration patterns, including secure data ingestion, transformation, sharing, consumption, governance, and integration with analytics and reporting platforms.
• Manage architecture governance, technical risk assessments, vendor design reviews, proof-of-concept evaluations, implementation sequencing, and change-management activities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial, operational, data, security, and regulatory standards, including SOX, AML/KYC, SEC/FINRA expectations where relevant to platform scope.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of enterprise systems, application development, solution architecture, or integration architecture experience supporting financial systems and wealth or asset management platforms.
• 5+ years of experience in wealth management, asset management, investment operations, portfolio management, or adjacent financial services environments.
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience leading architects, engineers, analysts, delivery teams, or cross-functional technical workstreams.
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering API integrations, microservices, middleware solutions, data services, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience translating business strategy, operating model needs, and regulatory requirements into technology roadmaps, target architectures, and delivery plans.
• Experience supporting enterprise platforms in a production environment, including release planning, regression testing, incident response, operational support, and vendor coordination.
• Working knowledge of asset management workflows, including portfolio data, client reporting, trading or investment operations, performance analytics, alternative investments, and financial reporting.
• Experience working with data platforms, data warehouses, SQL, data modeling concepts, data quality controls, and system-to-system data flows.
• Excellent communication, documentation, organizational, stakeholder management, and team development skills.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities, competing deadlines, and high expectations for quality and reliability.
• Ability to work in Brown Advisory’s Baltimore office three days per week.

Tech Stack

• Microservices
• SQL

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Wellness program participation incentive
• Financial wellness program
• Fitness event fee reimbursement
• Gym membership discounts
• Colleague Assistance Program
• Telemedicine Program (for those enrolled in Medical)
• Adoption Benefits
• Daycare late pick-up fee reimbursement
• Basic Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Voluntary Life & Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• Paid parental leave
• Group Long Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
• 401(k) (50% employer match up to IRS limit, 4 year vesting)