Research Platform Architect

Role Overview

• Define the long-term architectural strategy for the economic research platform ecosystem.
• Align architecture with evolving research needs, data growth, and public data access.
• Provide technical leadership across the Research Domain Architect and Application Architect roles.
• Establish architecture principles, design standards, and governance practices across engineering teams.
• Lead architecture reviews for major technology initiatives.
• Lead architecture for high-availability public APIs and data services used globally by developers and institutions.
• Collaborate with data architecture to support large-scale time-series datasets and historical revisions.
• Design systems capable of handling traffic spikes during major economic events and releases.
• Partner with engineering leaders, and product teams to translate research needs into scalable platform architecture.
• Mentor engineers on modern platform architecture practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise / platform architecture, solution design and large-scale technology implementations in complex, highly regulated environments.
• Deep understanding of modern technology stacks, cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and enterprise software solutions.
• Demonstrated experience designing, architecting and supporting external / public-facing applications with a strong emphasis on scalability, security, availability and performance for external customer-facing platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and leading adoption of industry best practices in the areas of application development, solution architecture, agile methodologies, cloud development, cybersecurity and cloud data architecture.
• Industry-related certifications in one or more of the above areas are desired.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including translating technical topics and risks into business teams.
• Ability to personalize communication to audience from technologists to executive leadership.
• Extensive, in-depth experience implementing highly complex technology projects in a cross-functional matrix environment with demonstrated ability to drive consensus and deliver results.
• Examples of leading through influence and successfully resolving conflicting priorities are required.
• Deep alignment into the Research business domain which is required to translate business strategy into technical strategy, architecture, value streams and operational needs into a scalable platform that accelerates delivery, maximizes ROI and ensures long-term relevance of solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to define long-term architecture roadmaps and lead complex modernization initiatives.
• Strong experience with API-driven systems and high-traffic public platforms.
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing and operating systems on AWS or similar cloud platforms such as Azure.
• Experience working with modern technology stacks including PHP, Go, Angular, Terraform and PostgreSQL.

Tech Stack

• Angular
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• PHP
• Postgres
• Terraform
• Go

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• Tuition & Training assistance/reimbursement
• 401(k) match & Annuity/Pension fund
• Top-notch health care benefits
• Child and family care leave
• Professional development opportunities
• And more...