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New York, New York, United States
Hybrid
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
Solution Architect, Technology
wellington management
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
Tracing our roots to 1928, Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms. With over US$1 trillion in assets under management as of 30 September 2025, we serve as a trusted adviser to institutional clients and mutual fund sponsors in over 60 countries. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome people with diverse life experiences, fresh ideas, and specialized subject matter expertise.
THE POSITION
The Solution Architect serves as the lead architecture partner for one or more business products, platforms, or delivery teams. This role is responsible for translating business objectives, product strategies, and enterprise architecture guidance into practical solution designs that are scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and aligned with Wellington’s technology standards.
The Solution Architect works directly with Product Owners, Engineers, Technical Leads, Product Managers, Delivery Leads, and Enterprise Architects to shape the technical direction of product teams. The role balances short-term delivery needs with long-term architecture sustainability, ensuring solutions support both immediate business outcomes and future platform evolution.
The individual in this role must be comfortable moving between strategy, design, engineering, governance, and stakeholder engagement. They help teams solve complex technology challenges, manage dependencies, define non-functional requirements, and make effective technology decisions while maintaining alignment with Wellington’s architecture principles and standards.
Success in this role comes through technical leadership, collaboration, influence, and a demonstrated ability to help teams deliver high-quality solutions that create measurable business value.
A successful Solution Architect at Wellington Management combines deep technical expertise with strong collaboration and leadership skills. They help product teams move faster by making architecture decisions early, reducing technology risk, simplifying complexity, and ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise standards and platform strategies. They are recognized for delivering practical architectures that balance business value, engineering quality, operational excellence, and long-term sustainability.
The Solution Architect is a senior technology leader responsible for designing scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that enable Wellington Management’s business and technology strategies. Working closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Platform Leaders, and Enterprise Architects, this role translates business objectives into practical technology architectures and guides delivery teams through successful implementation. The Solution Architect serves as the primary architecture partner for one or more product areas, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards, leverage strategic platforms, manage technology risk, and deliver long-term business value. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and collaboration skills, bringing a pragmatic approach to solving complex business and technology challenges while driving innovation, quality, and operational excellence.
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That’s ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.
As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at GMWTalentOperations@wellington.com.
At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 120,000 - 225,000This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.