HarbourVest Partners
Vice President, Application Architecture
Boston · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$225k-$240kDetected 27 days ago
TypeScriptReactAngularNode.jsDistributed SystemsRedisAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringKafkaLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.
- In our collegial environment, that's marked by low turnover and high energy, you'll be inspired to grow and thrive.
- HarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Create enterprise architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and modernization roadmaps that align technology investments with business growth objectives
- Drive standardization and reuse across the engineering organization by defining shared frameworks, common services, and architectural building blocks that reduce redundancy and complexity
- Support additional critical initiatives as needed
- Partner with application, platform, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure architecture decisions consider operational, regulatory, performance, and supportability requirements
Requirements
- Practical expertise with modern application development stacks and frameworks, including Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and current web application architecture patterns
- Experience with messaging, caching, and data access technologies and patterns, including Kafka, Redis, API integration, persistence strategies, and service-to-service communication
- Ability to connect business goals to architecture strategy, translating organizational priorities into actionable technical roadmaps and standards
- A passion for defining durable organizational architecture alongside up-to-date engineering standards that develop long-term business and technology value
- Demonstrated success driving enterprise-wide architecture and modernization initiatives across applications, platforms, cloud, and integration domains
- Deep hands-on experience with modern architecture patterns such as distributed services, component-based frontends, event-centric architecture, principles driven by a passion for the core business logic, and API-based integration
- Strong knowledge of cloud engineering and distributed systems design, with experience building scalable, resilient, and observable solutions in enterprise environments
- Solid understanding of DevOps and software delivery processes, with a focus on CI/CD, automation, source control strategy, environment management, and release lifecycle considerations
- A track record of influencing senior leaders, engineers, and multi-functional teams to align around a shared architecture vision and complete it optimally
- Strong mentoring, collaboration, and communication skills, capable of raising architectural maturity and improving engineering efficiency within the enterprise
Nice to have
- Recognized technical authority with demonstrated success in defining enterprise-scale architecture strategy and influencing adoption across multiple teams, platforms, and business domains
- Strong proficiency in enterprise and solution architecture, demonstrating skill in defining target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and pragmatic modernization strategies
- Strong experience with cloud infrastructure development and cloud-native architecture, preferably in Azure, including scalable application patterns, integration, identity, networking, observability, and resilience
- Proven grasp of DevOps principles and software delivery practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, environment strategy, and release governance
- Expertise in contemporary web application development and architecture, including frameworks and technologies such as Angular, React, TypeScript, Node.js, and development focused on web-based interfaces
- Ability to balance strategic architecture direction with practical execution, helping teams modernize incrementally while maintaining delivery momentum
- Strong understanding of integration, interoperability, data flow, and domain boundaries across enterprise software and infrastructures
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and governance practices, such as TOGAF, capability modeling, architecture review processes, or domain architecture methods
Compensation
- $225,000.00 - $240,000.00
- This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements.
- This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance.
- In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs.
- Please note the posted ranges do not apply outside the U.S. and should not be converted to other currencies as a proxy for compensation in other countries.
Benefits
- Define the target-state architectural vision.
- Our total rewards offerings are influenced by several business factors, and eligibility for certain components will vary by position and geography.
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