Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

Flywire
Chicago, Austin
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 245,000 - 295,000 annuallyFunction: Architecture & Urban PlanningExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentorship","Collaboration","Communication","Influencing"]

Lead the evolution of enterprise architecture for a global payments platform, setting long-term strategy and architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure. Partner with CTO, engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to modernize legacy systems and drive scalable, secure, compliant architectures using microservices, cloud-native patterns, and distributed systems. Build and mentor a small team of domain and platform architects and advise on technology investments and due diligence for M&A and partnerships.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Flywire
Flywire
1 month ago

Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 15 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Lead the evolution of enterprise architecture for a global payments platform, setting long-term strategy and architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure. Partner with CTO, engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to modernize legacy systems and drive scalable, secure, compliant architectures using microservices, cloud-native patterns, and distributed systems. Build and mentor a small team of domain and platform architects and advise on technology investments and due diligence for M&A and partnerships.
Location: Chicago, Austin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Architecture & Urban Planning
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and maintain enterprise architecture strategy for the global payments platform and software solutions.
  • •Establish architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers.
  • •Modernize and rationalize legacy systems and evolve common platform architecture.
  • •Drive architectural governance, including review boards and design standards, to support scalability, security, and compliance while reducing technical debt.
  • •Advise the CTO on technology investments and lead due diligence for M&A and strategic partnership initiatives.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 245,000 - 295,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of software engineering and architecture leadership experience.
  • •Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale environments.
  • •Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
  • •Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms with high-volume transaction workloads.
  • •Strong background in microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems.
Experience:15+ yearsFintechPaymentsFinancial services
Skills:LeadershipMentorshipCollaborationCommunicationInfluencing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:MicroservicesAPIsEvent-driven systemsDistributed systemsCloud-native

Company Brief

Flywire
Provides a global payments platform and vertical-specific software to enable complex cross-border and domestic receivables for education, healthcare, travel and B2B clients, streamlining payments, reconciliation and receivables workflows.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2009
Glassdoor
Glassdoor: 3.5
WebsiteLinkedInGlassdoor