Vice President - Architecture Futurist / Product Owner

Vice President-level Software Engineering role in Institutional Securities Group Technology focused on Divisional Enterprise Architecture Strategy and architecture content creation.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to define ISG's enterprise architecture strategy, target state, principles, technology positions, roadmaps, and decision frameworks.
• Synthesize business priorities, engineering needs, domain strategies, and technology trends into a coherent divisional point of view.
• Explain where the architecture is going, why it matters, and the implications for technology teams.
• Create and refine architecture strategies, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, playbooks, governance guidance, and implementation materials.
• Collaborate with architects and subject-matter experts to convert complex concepts into precise, accessible, and actionable documentation while preserving technical accuracy and ownership.
• Establish consistent terminology, editorial standards, and clear links among strategy, decisions, standards, patterns, and engineering guidance.
• Translate architecture and engineering topics into concise, decision-oriented executive narratives, presentations, strategy decks, briefings, and governance materials.
• Research emerging technologies and architecture trends, assess implications for ISG, and produce executive briefings, strategies, and actionable white papers.
• Develop visual frameworks, including architecture views, capability maps, operating models, roadmaps, and decision frameworks, to strengthen the written narrative.
• Tailor content to the audience while maintaining consistent messages across strategy, documentation, and leadership communications.
• Build a scalable, authoritative body of architecture knowledge so strategies, standards, patterns, decisions, and guidance are easy to discover and use.
• Partner with domain owners to keep content current, close documentation gaps, and convert governance outcomes into reusable guidance.
• Create onboarding, educational, and reference materials that improve understanding of architecture expectations and serve as durable organizational assets.
• Build partnerships across architecture, engineering, governance, technology management, and senior leadership.
• Facilitate working sessions to capture decisions, rationale, and strategic implications; challenge unclear thinking and reconcile differing perspectives into consistent guidance.
• Influence outcomes effectively in a highly matrixed environment without direct authority.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in technical writing, technology strategy, enterprise architecture, technology consulting, architecture enablement, or a related discipline.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with experience explaining complex technical topics clearly and accurately.
• Strong understanding of technology architecture concepts and credibility working with senior architects and engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous or highly technical information into clear frameworks, narratives, and guidance.
• Experience producing technical strategy documents and architecture content such as documentation, standards, patterns, playbooks, white papers, or comparable materials.
• Strong analytical and research skills, including the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar technology domains.
• Experience creating executive-level technology presentations and written materials.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with confidence engaging senior technical and executive audiences.
• Ability to balance technical precision with simplicity, readability, and practical usability.

Division-wide Enterprise Architecture Strategy (Focus Areas)

• Define ISG's enterprise architecture strategy, target state, principles, technology positions, roadmaps, and decision frameworks.
• Develop a coherent divisional point of view by combining business priorities, engineering needs, domain strategies, and technology trends.
• Clarify direction, rationale, and implications so technology teams understand where architecture is headed.

Technical Writing & Architecture Content

• Develop architecture strategies, standards, reference architectures, design patterns, playbooks, governance guidance, and implementation materials.
• Translate complex ideas into precise, accessible, and actionable documentation with technical accuracy and ownership preserved.
• Set consistent terminology and editorial standards with clear linking across strategy, decisions, standards, patterns, and engineering guidance.

Executive Thought Leadership & Strategic Content

• Produce decision-oriented executive narratives, presentations, strategy decks, briefings, and governance materials.
• Research emerging technologies and architecture trends; translate findings into executive briefings, strategies, and actionable white papers.
• Create visual frameworks such as architecture views, capability maps, operating models, roadmaps, and decision frameworks.
• Tailor content for each audience while keeping core messages consistent across documentation and leadership communications.

Architecture Knowledge & Enablement

• Build a scalable, authoritative architecture knowledge base that supports discovery and reuse of strategies, standards, patterns, decisions, and guidance.
• Keep content current by partnering with domain owners, closing documentation gaps, and turning governance outcomes into reusable guidance.
• Create onboarding, educational, and reference materials to reinforce architecture expectations as lasting organizational assets.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Coordinate with architecture, engineering, governance, technology management, and senior leadership.
• Run working sessions to capture decisions, rationale, and strategic implications; reconcile perspectives into consistent guidance.
• Drive alignment and outcomes in a matrixed environment without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with enterprise architecture concepts including target-state architecture, reference architectures, architecture patterns, capability mapping, and technology standards.
• Experience working within enterprise architecture, CTO, engineering strategy, or technology governance organizations.
• Experience documenting cloud, data, AI/GenAI, software engineering, infrastructure, or platform architecture.
• Understanding of architecture governance and technology decision-making forums.
• Familiarity with diagramming, knowledge-management, and documentation platforms.
• Experience in Financial Services or another large, complex, regulated organization.

Compensation & Location

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Base salary: USD 155,000 - 215,000 per year
• Base pay details: expected base pay rates for the role will be between $155,000 and $215,000 per year at the commencement of employment; base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package.
• Total compensation package: may include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.