Senior Director / Head of Enterprise Architecture

Join Flywire, a global payments platform, as the Head of Architecture. In this strategic role, you will define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy, establish architecture standards, and drive modernization across Flywire's technology stack. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure architectural alignment and support long-term scalability, security, and compliance requirements. The ideal candidate has 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles, with a strong background in designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywire’s global payments platform and software solutions.
• Establishing architecture standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers, and driving architectural alignment across engineering teams.
• Serving as a strategic advisor to the CTO on technology investment decisions and platform evolution, and leading technical due diligence during M&A initiatives.
• 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
• The head of Architecture is first and foremost passionate about Technology, leads with AI first mindset, detailed oriented and hands on when required
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and drive architectural standards across distributed teams
• Experience leading architecture initiatives within global engineering organizations
• Experience operating in complex regulated industries such as fintech, payments, or financial services
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles
• Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transaction workloads
• Strong communication skills with the ability to represent and advocate Technology matters across the company and including C suite
• Open to Chicago, IL or Austin, TX
• Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
• Strong background in microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and executive leadership
• Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale technology environments