Solution Architect - Wealth Management

Role: Solution Architect - Wealth Management

Location: Remote – candidate should be ok to travel in TX

Visa: USC

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We are seeking a senior Solution Architect with extensive Wall Street, Wealth Management, and Financial Services experience to lead workflow transformation and modernization initiatives for a leading U.

S. financial institution. The architect will work directly with business stakeholders, technology leadership, application architects, and engineering teams to assess current-state processes, define target-state architecture, create transformation roadmaps and prototypes, and guide delivery using Microsoft technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead executive, business, and technology stakeholder workshops and structured discovery sessions.
• Assess current-state Wealth Management workflows, operating processes, application landscape, integrations, and automation opportunities.
• Define target-state business processes, solution architecture, integration patterns, security considerations, and implementation roadmaps.
• Build, qualify, prioritize, and manage a transformation backlog based on business value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies.
• Lead architecture for workflow modernization initiatives, including client onboarding, account opening, advisor and client servicing, document and file management, enterprise scheduling, trade blotter, and related operations processes.
• Identify opportunities for Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365 CE, Azure Integration Services, BPM platforms, and data and process automation.
• Guide prototypes and proof-of-concepts that validate business outcomes, architecture decisions, and implementation feasibility.
• Collaborate with business analysts, Power Platform and Dynamics 365 consultants, application architects, integration teams, engineering teams, and delivery leadership.
• Produce architecture blueprints, decision records, functional and non-functional requirements, estimates, delivery plans, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Provide architecture governance and delivery guidance through implementation, testing, release planning, and adoption.

Required Experience

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise solution architecture, business applications, workflow transformation, or related roles.
• 10+ years of direct experience in Wealth Management, Private Banking, Asset Management, Brokerage, Registered Investment Advisor, Trust, Investment Management, or Capital Markets environments.
• Proven experience leading discovery, target-state design, modernization roadmaps, and implementation planning for complex financial services organizations.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with senior business leaders, product owners, architects, compliance stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Experience translating business objectives and operating-model needs into scalable solution architecture and actionable delivery backlogs.
• Experience leading customer-facing presentations, architecture reviews, solution trade-off discussions, and executive decision-making.

Required Wealth Management and Capital Markets Expertise

• Experience with broker-dealer, Registered Investment Advisor, private wealth, trust, or investment management operations.
• Ability to converse credibly with wealth advisors, portfolio managers, operations leaders, compliance teams, technology leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience modernizing advisor desktop, client onboarding, account opening, client servicing, and wealth operations workflows.
• Strong understanding of advisory operations, investment and account servicing lifecycles, portfolio management workflows, trade blotter processes, regulatory obligations, and supervisory controls.
• Ability to translate Wealth Management business objectives into target-state operating models, workflow automation strategies, data requirements, and solution architecture recommendations.

Required Technical Skills

• Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and platform governance.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement.
• Azure Integration Services, including Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, and API-based integration patterns.
• Business Process Management and enterprise workflow platforms.
• Banking and Financial Services digital transformation.
• Data and process automation.
• Enterprise application integration, security, data architecture, and non-functional solution design.
• Requirements discovery, business process assessment, architecture modeling, and roadmap development.