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About the role
Flywire is seeking a Head of Architecture to serve as the strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer and lead the evolution of Flywire’s enterprise architecture. This leader will define the long-term architecture strategy for our global payments platform while ensuring our technology ecosystem scales with Flywire’s continued growth.
What they're looking for
- 15+ years of experience in software engineering and architecture leadership roles
- Proven experience as an Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, or Distinguished Engineer in large-scale technology environments
- Deep expertise designing highly scalable distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Experience building architecture strategies for global platforms handling high-volume transaction workloads
- Strong background in microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems
- Experience operating in complex regulated industries such as fintech, payments, or financial services
More about this role
Flywire is seeking a Head of Architecture to serve as the strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer and lead the evolution of Flywire’s enterprise architecture. This leader will define the long-term architecture strategy for our global payments platform while ensuring our technology ecosystem scales with Flywire’s continued growth.
This role will be responsible for establishing architecture standards, guiding major platform decisions, and driving evolution and modernization across Flywire’s technology stack. The Head of Architecture will partner closely with engineering leadership, product teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment of direction, goals and roadmaps.
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.
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for Flywire’s global payments platform and software...
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