Director, Enterprise & Solutions Architecture

Location

New York, New York, United States

ATLAS SP Partners is a global investment firm that seeks to provide stable funding and capital markets services to companies seeking innovative and bespoke structured credit and asset‑backed finance solutions. ATLAS SP’s tenured experts work with clients to determine the best approach to optimize their capital and achieve their goals, across a broad range of capabilities. Our integrated platform encompasses a holistic suite of capabilities, including asset/portfolio advisory solutions, warehouse/acquisition financing solutions, whole loan purchase/sale and securitization/distribution.

ATLAS SP is “one team” where everyone makes an impact – we grow together, win together, and embrace change together. From advancing the markets to supporting our communities, everything we do serves to make a difference. Our people are industry leaders with a passion for client service, complex problem solving, and innovation. We provide our talent with the pathways to grow professionally and personally in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

We’re proud to build upon a legacy of excellence anchored in deep expertise and client service across the asset management landscape.

The Enterprise & Solutions Architecture will own the firm’s enterprise architecture foundation and guide how technology supports the business as it scales. This person will define core architecture standards, shape integration and data‑flow patterns, oversee the messaging strategy, and ensure systems evolve in a coherent, secure, and efficient way.

The role blends enterprise architecture with hands‑on solutioning. The Director will partner directly with engineering leads, vendor teams, and business stakeholders to design technical solutions for a wide range of needs, from vendor platform integrations to bespoke internal builds. This leader must be commercially minded and comfortable rolling up their sleeves in a dynamic environment while also providing strategic architectural leadership.

Financial services experience is essential, along with strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across a fast‑moving organization.

• Establish and maintain enterprise architecture standards, reference models, and best practices.
• Define the target‑state architecture across applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure.
• Guide system modernization efforts, including platform refactoring, cloud optimization, and architectural simplification.
• Work directly with technology and business stakeholders to translate business needs into practical, scalable, secure technical designs.
• Lead solution design reviews and provide architectural oversight for projects delivered by internal teams or external vendors.
• Provide hands‑on design support during project delivery, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards and long‑term architecture goals.
• Partner with engineering to ensure solutions align with enterprise principles and long‑term strategy.
• Own the firm’s integration strategy, including patterns, tooling, and governance.
• Design and evolve messaging and eventing frameworks to support reliable, real‑time, and batch data flows.
• Oversee integrations across critical systems (internal and vendor platforms), ensuring performance, resilience, and data quality.
• Technology Risk, Security, and Compliance Alignment
  • Ensure solution designs follow security best practices, identity and access patterns, and regulatory expectations relevant to financial services.
  • Collaborate with risk, security, and audit teams to ensure architectures support resilience, recoverability, and appropriate controls.
• Maintain visibility into the full application and integration landscape.
• Identify simplification opportunities, redundancy, technical debt, and modernization needs.
• Guide deprecation, consolidation, and long‑term lifecycle planning.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Work closely with peers across technology, operations, finance, risk, and investment teams to co‑design solutions.
  • Communicate complex concepts in clear, accessible language for technical and non‑technical…