Software Engineering Architect

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

THE ROLE

Apply deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and sound judgment to solve complex business and technology challenges across Investment Operations, Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Data domains. Define and drive target-state architectures that leverage modern cloud, platform engineering, data, and AI capabilities to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure business solutions.

In partnership with Product Owners, Investment Operations, Portfolio Management, Enterprise Architecture, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure teams, this role will establish the architectural direction for Cash Management, Collateral Management, Decision Support Systems (DSS), and Portfolio Master platforms. The Architect will lead technology modernization initiatives that transform how MFS manages cash, collateral, portfolio data, and operational workflows while improving transparency, controls, scalability, and operational efficiency.

This role is responsible for defining enterprise architecture standards, guiding cloud transformation efforts, driving AI-enabled innovation, and ensuring technology solutions align with strategic business objectives and enterprise architecture principles.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Architecture & Strategy

• Define and maintain the target-state architecture and technology roadmap for Cash Management, Collateral Management, DSS, and Portfolio Master platforms.
• Partner with business leadership to align technology investments with strategic business objectives.
• Help establish architectural standards, design patterns, integration frameworks, and engineering guardrails across multiple technology domains.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities that improve business capabilities and operational efficiency.

Cloud Modernization & Platform Engineering

• Drive enterprise cloud adoption initiatives utilizing Azure, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Develop architectural strategies for application modernization, containerization, and migration from on-premises platforms to cloud-native and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Define enterprise CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, operational resilience, and reliability patterns.
• Establish reference architectures and reusable frameworks that accelerate delivery across engineering teams.

Data & AI Architecture

• Define architectural patterns supporting portfolio, investment, and operational data across DSS and Portfolio Master ecosystems.
• Develop data integration strategies leveraging APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern data platforms.
• Promote adoption of Microsoft AI technologies, including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve operational efficiency, decision-making, and engineering productivity.

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership across multiple delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers, technical leads, and solution architects on architecture best practices and emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with globally distributed teams, and strategic partners to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Participate in enterprise architecture councils, design reviews, and technology governance forums.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of software engineering, solution architecture, or enterprise architecture experience.
• Significant experience within Investment Management, Asset Management, Capital Markets, or Financial Services.
• Demonstrated experience architecting enterprise-scale systems supporting investment operations, portfolio management, cash management, collateral management, or investment data platforms.
• Deep expertise designing cloud-native, distributed, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong experience with Azure cloud services, Azure DevOps, OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, and modern platform engineering practices.
• Experience defining enterprise application modernization and cloud migration strategies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, APIs, messaging technologies, and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with modern data platforms including Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, and cloud-native data services.
• Experience with Microsoft AI technologies including Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Power Platform.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, resilience, and operational excellence practices.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Deep expertise in cash processing, liquidity management, collateral management, margining, collateral optimization, and operational risk controls.
• Strong understanding of trade settlement, reconciliation, accounting, and post-trade processing workflows.
• Experience with Charles River, Eagle, Acadia Margin Manager, Calypso, or similar investment management platforms.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, and other cloud automation technologies.

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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Base Salary Range: $123,000.00 - $177,500.00 This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus. 

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k) 

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually 

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them

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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.

MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email [email protected] for assistance. 

MFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. Employees and applicants of MFS will not be subject to harassment on the basis of their status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited. Please see the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal document, linked for your reference.