Vice President - Architecture, Data and Python Engineering

Job Description
55ip, a leading fintech firm and part of JPMorgan Chase, empowers financial advisors and enterprise partners to break down barriers to financial progress, improve client outcomes, and grow their business through intelligence, technology, and client experience. Our mission is to set the industry standard by delivering innovative, automated solutions for tax-smart investing, supported by a culture of hustle, collaboration, and a relentless drive for excellence. At 55ip, we are united in delivering better outcomes for our clients, their clients, and the industry.
55ip is seeking a hands-on Senior Vice President for our IT Architecture Group. You will play a key leadership role in designing and scaling our automated tax-smart investing platform, leveraging public cloud (AWS) infrastructure, and driving architectural excellence across domains. This role requires advanced technical expertise, strategic vision, and strong stakeholder management and communication skills. You will be responsible for engaging with cross-functional stakeholders to align technology solutions with business objectives and ensure successful delivery, while maintaining comprehensive architecture documentation and standards.
As 55ip continues its rapid growth trajectory, we are on the path to managing over $1 trillion in assets under supervision (AUS) by 2030. This scale brings significant challenges and opportunities, including supporting exponential increases in accounts, net flows, revenue, and pre-tax income. Our technology platform must evolve to handle this growth, ensuring robust performance, reliability, and automation for tax-smart investing portfolios across diverse product mixes and client segments.
Job responsibilities:

• Lead architecture reviews to improve scalability, reliability, and performance on AWS.
• Design and optimize domain architectures for business growth and evolving product needs.
• Architect and implement distributed, event-driven microservices for investment workflows.
• Oversee and enforce architectural standards, documentation, and decision records (ADR).
• Develop and optimize high-performance data pipelines and database solutions.
• Integrate and evaluate AWS services, Python upgrades, and distributed messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis).
• Implement and enhance observability solutions for monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Collaborate horizontally with wide feature teams to drive architectural alignment and influence outcomes.
• Lead PoC and pilot projects for new platform features, including AI and machine learning initiatives.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices in security, compliance, and cloud-native development.
• Identify and remediate technical debt, ensuring robust, scalable, and efficient solutions.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering and architecture.
• Advanced proficiency in Python, including performance tuning and automation.
• Strong experience with database design, modeling, and optimization (SQL, NoSQL).
• Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS).
• Proven track record in designing distributed, event-driven microservices architectures.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis for messaging and real-time data processing.
• Hands-on experience with data warehouse technologies (Redshift, Snowflake).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes).
• Skilled in implementing observability tools and practices (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to create horizontal influence across feature teams.
• Experience creating and maintaining architecture documentation and models.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Python, Database Performance Tuning, AWS, Distributed Event-Driven Microservices Architecture, Collaboration & Influence Across Feature Teams