Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

Flywire

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, ILAustin, TX
Salary
$245,000–$295,000 / yr
Posted
54 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $240k
This role $270k
$171k most similar roles pay here $308k

This role pays more than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $196,350–$284,600 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $270k versus about $240k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Flywire

Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company specializing in high-stakes, complex payment verticals including education, healthcare, travel, and B2B, processing international payments across 240 countries. Industry: Financial Technology & Global Payments

Flywire currently has 22 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $81,000–$101,000 across 11 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture

Senior Director, Head of Enterprise Architecture will serve as a strategic technical partner to the Chief Technology Officer to lead the evolution of the enterprise architecture for a global payments platform. This leader is responsible for defining long-term strategy, establishing standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers, and building a team of domain and platform architects. The role involves modernizing legacy systems, guiding the adoption of microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed systems, while managing architecture governance and technical due diligence during M&A activities. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in high-volume transaction workloads, APIs, and event-driven systems within regulated industries like fintech and payments. They will drive architectural discipline across global engineering teams to ensure scalability, security, and compliance while reducing technical debt through an AI-first mindset and disciplined technology governance.

What you'll do

  • Define and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for global payment platforms and software solutions.
  • Establish architectural standards across application, platform, data, and infrastructure layers.
  • Lead initiatives to modernize legacy systems and evolve common platform architectures.
  • Guide the adoption of microservices, cloud-native infrastructure, and distributed system patterns.
  • Establish governance frameworks including architecture review boards and design standards.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO on technology investments and innovation.
  • Lead technical due diligence during M&A and strategic partnership initiatives.
  • Build and mentor a team of domain and platform architects.

What we'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 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.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and drive architectural standards across distributed teams.
  • Strong communication skills to advocate for technology matters to executive leadership and the C-suite.

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