Flywire

Flywire

Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

Chicago, IL, United States · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$245k-$295kDetected 3 days ago
Distributed SystemsM&ARecruitingLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This leader will define the long-term architecture strategy for our global payments platform while ensuring our technology ecosystem scales with Flywire's continued growth.
  • This role will be responsible for establishing architecture standards, guiding major platform decisions, and driving evolution and modernization across Flywire's technology stack.
  • The ideal candidate is a highly experienced enterprise architect who has built and scaled global platforms in complex distributed environments and thrives operating at the intersection of technology strategy and engineering execution.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywire's global payments platform and software solutions.
  • Drive architectural alignment, foster a culture of technical excellence and architectural discipline across engineering teams operating globally.
  • Build and mentor a small team of domain and platform architects.
  • Lead initiatives to modernize and rationalize different legacy systems and evolve Flywire's common platform architecture.
  • Establish architecture governance frameworks including architecture review boards and design standards.
  • Ensure architectural decisions support long-term scalability, security, and compliance requirements while containing or reducing technical debt.
  • Lead technical due diligence process during M&A and strategic partnership initiatives.
  • Partner closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure architectural alignment across initiatives.
  • Work with global engineering teams across multiple regions to drive consistent architecture standards
  • Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transaction workloads.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles.
  • Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale technology environments.
  • Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience operating in complex regulated industries such as fintech, payments, or financial services.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate Technology matters across the company and including C suite.
  • Experience leading architecture initiatives within global engineering organizations.
  • The head of Architecture is first and foremost passionate about Technology, leads with AI first mindset, detailed oriented and hands on when required.

Skills

  • Guide the adoption of modern architecture patterns including microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed systems.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO on technology investment decisions and platform evolution.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption of innovations that improve engineering velocity and platform capabilities.

Compensation

  • $245k-$295k

Company info

  • Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education.
  • We've since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.
  • Today we support more than 4,800 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.
  • With over 1,200 global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 12 offices world-wide, we're looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
  • The Opportunity:
  • Flywire is seeking a Head of Architecture to serve as the strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer and lead the evolution of Flywire's enterprise architecture.
  • The Head of Architecture will partner closely with engineering leadership, product teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment of direction, goals and roadmaps.
  • Here's What We're Looking For:
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