Chief Architect at TEKsystems | New York, United States | Rezi

Chief Architect at TEKsystems

Chief Architect

TEKsystems · New York, United States

5 days ago

Chief Architect

TEKsystems · New York, United States

6 days ago
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About the Role

We are seeking an Enterprise Architect to modernize our existing platform for the Secondary Mortgage market. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical expertise and team leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own and enforce the five-layer architectural blueprint across all systems, data, and integration layers.
  • Establish and maintain schema governance, ensuring all fields have defined source tier, business definition, and provenance.
  • Govern the DynamoDB-to-Postgres migration, including schema design, data validation, and legacy table deprecation.
  • Own the Silver data dictionary architecture, defining field attributes and data lineage.
  • Establish and chair the Architecture Review Council for significant design decisions.
  • Define and enforce the Anti-Rube Goldberg principle, promoting reuse over novelty.
  • Deploy and govern the componentized rules engine and BPM layer for the certified loan process.
  • Complete the Camunda (or equivalent) rules engine evaluation, selection, and deployment.
  • Enforce the workflow/rules separation principle in all builds.
  • Build the componentized rules library in collaboration with credit risk and underwriting leadership.
  • Design the rules engine to support eight certified loan process gate validations.
  • Establish and govern the AI execution layer as the fifth layer of the platform architecture.
  • Establish the Center of Excellence (CoE) for AI-assisted development.
  • Own prompt engineering governance centrally, managing one library and one set of standards.
  • Lead adoption of AWS Q for Developer, GitHub Copilot, and Anthropic Claude in engineering workflows.
  • Build and govern the LLM-assisted rules generation capability.
  • Design the AI co-pilot model for the non-delegated manufacturing process.
  • Own the integration architecture connecting the canonical data model to third-party data sources.
  • Lead ETL platform selection and deployment.
  • Architect and govern integrations with Tier 1 data sources.
  • Design the extensible API and integration layer for LOS/POS connectivity and other integrations.
  • Govern the MP1/MP2 security architecture resolution.
  • Architect the digital certificate framework under UCC Article 8.
  • Design the Loan Passport MVP, the loan-level digital identity record.
  • Evaluate blockchain frameworks for smart contract deployment.
  • Ensure all digital asset designs maintain SOC 2 compliance, data privacy, and regulatory alignment.
  • Establish the disciplined, repeatable build and release process.
  • Own end-to-end build and release process, including metrics and post-mortem analysis.
  • Mentor senior engineers on architecture principles, design patterns, and AI-assisted development.
  • Partner with HR and leadership on talent assessment and development.
  • Ensure every AI-generated artifact passes pattern check, test harness, and security review.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of mortgage experience with specialty in the secondary Mortgage market.
  • 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience, with at least 5 years leading enterprise-scale platform design and delivery.
  • Demonstrated track record of building and shipping commercial enterprise software platforms in financial services or B2B SaaS.
  • Deep proficiency with relational database architecture: schema design, migration strategy, data governance, and provenance modeling.
  • Experience deploying rules engines and BPM platforms in production environments.
  • Hands-on experience with ETL pipeline design, integration architecture, and API governance.
  • Demonstrated experience leading AI-assisted development programs.
  • Proficiency with .NET Core, C#, React, and AWS cloud-native services.
  • Experience with CI/CD automation, automated testing frameworks, and build process ownership.
  • This is a start up environment so this resource must be a "go getter" and someone who is proactive vs. reactive.
  • Imperative to have solid communications skills and be able to set proper expectations.

Skills

  • Postgres
  • Camunda
  • Drools
  • Adeptia
  • Boomi
  • .NET Core
  • C#
  • React
  • AWS cloud-native services
  • ECS
  • RDS
  • Redshift
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • Prompt engineering
  • LLM integration
  • AI-assisted development
  • Rules engines
  • BPM platforms
  • ETL pipeline design
  • Integration architecture
  • API governance
  • CI/CD automation
  • Automated testing frameworks
  • Build process ownership
  • Relational database architecture
  • Schema design
  • Migration strategy
  • Data governance
  • Provenance modeling
  • Secondary Mortgage market
  • Enterprise-scale platform design
  • Financial services software
  • B2B SaaS platforms

Location

  • New York, NY

Work Type

  • Permanent
  • Fully remote

Experience Level

  • 7+ years of mortgage experience
  • 10+ years of software engineering and architecture experience
  • 5+ years leading enterprise-scale platform design and delivery

Education Level

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or equivalent preferred

Salary/Compensations

  • $225000.00 - $300000.00/yr

Benefits

  • 401k benefits
  • pto
  • private stock

About the Company

  • We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
  • We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

Equal Opportunity

  • The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
  • Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
  • Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.