Senior Applications Architect

• Collaborate with senior engineering leaders, engineers and contract professionals on application requirements and development plans across the entire lifecycle.
• Provide strategic guidance on technology capabilities, emerging innovations and product roadmap alignment.
• Design and review architecture diagrams, design concepts, and Kafka-based integrated solutions (Confluent Cloud/Platform).
• Support execution and integration activities with third-party vendors, including environment setup, configuration, data migration and system validation.
• Create scalable architectures integrating cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments, and manage database structure for large-scale applications.
• Document technical designs and conduct code reviews to maintain quality, performance and security standards.
• Support onboarding of applications to Broadridge's Integrated Platform and drive integration of new cloud-based structures using Confluent Platform components (Kafka brokers, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, REST Proxy).
• Lead deployments and configurations of new software builds on on-prem and cloud environments and automate provisioning, deployment and maintenance tasks with Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
• Perform application integration, API design and system migration, managing multi-cloud or SaaS environments.
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to implement monitoring, alerting and observability frameworks using Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus or similar tools.
• Proactively troubleshoot Kafka clusters, diagnose performance issues and conduct root-cause analysis for complex distributed environments.
• Ensure end-to-end automated testing of solutions using enterprise tools for smoke and regression tests.
• Lead technical design sessions and review architecture/code with multiple teams.
• Drive technical implementation, code quality and support overall development team productivity.
• Represent engineering in meetings with Product, Quality and Infrastructure teams to provide technical leadership and remove impediments.
• Estimate projects and recommend scope/schedule changes based on capacity and unforeseen challenges.
• Offer guidance on application solutions, data design, testing, troubleshooting, software development tools, governance and quality assurance.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field (Master's preferred).
• 12+ years operating within an enterprise technology structure, with extensive .NET and AWS Cloud development experience.
• Strong understanding of modern technologies such as Angular, React, Java, PostgreSQL, Kafka and REST APIs.
• 10+ years relevant IT experience in financial/fin-tech institutions with leadership experience.
• 5+ years creating logical and physical data models, defining database schemas (SQL, NoSQL, Graph/Neo4j).
• Functional skills in application development life cycle/agile, architecture, system design, dev-ops, deployment automation and source control (GitLab, Jenkins, JFrog).
• Proven track record of supporting technology integration and transformation initiatives.

Salary range: $165,000 - $175,000USD, with bonus eligibility., Comprehensive benefits package available. For full details, visit the benefits portal. Equal Employment Opportunity