Senior Platform Architect

We are seeking a seasoned, self-directed Platform Architect with a strong sense of ownership and a track record of turning fragmented technology investments into cohesive, enterprise-grade platform capabilities. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who operates comfortably at the intersection of deep technical architecture and executive-level influence — equally capable of designing an AWS landing zone pattern and presenting a platform strategy to senior leadership.

You bring conviction, follow-through, and the credibility to drive platform-first thinking across a matrixed organization without direct authority. If you’re energized by building the connective tissue that makes engineering organizations more effective at scale — and doing it with a bias for durable, reusable, measurable outcomes — this role was built for you.

Senior individual contributor responsible for defining enterprise platform architecture and driving platform-first thinking across Engineering, Infrastructure, Data, and Security. This role exists to prevent the organization from accumulating a collection of team-specific tools and one-off project implementations in place of scalable, reusable platform capabilities. It operates horizontally — influencing without direct authority — and is accountable for ensuring that strategic technology investments compound rather than fragment.

• 15+ years in platform architecture, enterprise architecture, or large-scale systems design
• Deep, hands-on background in AWS — services breadth, landing zone/account design, infrastructure patterns, and cloud-native integration
• Strong experience with CI/CD ecosystems, developer platform design, and DevEx tooling
• Familiarity with data platform concepts including environment data management, masking, and synthetic data at the platform level
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and emerging agentic patterns on AWS
• Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across large, matrixed organizations without direct authority
• Executive-level communication and storytelling skills — equally fluent in an architecture review and a leadership strategy session
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity; able to drive adoption through credibility and collaboration, not positional authority

The base salary range for this position is $210,000 - $240,000. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as skills, experience, and qualification for the role. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range.

In addition, this position may be eligible for a discretionary incentive based on individual and company performance.

Eligible employees may participate in a 401 (k) program with a company profit sharing contribution, medical, dental, vision, life insurance and disability coverage and paid holidays, vacation, and sick days.

Bessemer Trust is a family office, overseeing more than $200 billion in assets for over 3,100 individuals and families of substantial wealth. Its more than 1,200 employees are singularly focused on private wealth management — disciplined investment management, sophisticated wealth planning, comprehensive family office services, and highly personalized client service.

Established in 1907 as the family office for Annie and Henry Phipps, Bessemer Trust is in its seventh generation of ownership by the Phipps family. As a self-made entrepreneur, Henry Phipps was a founding partner and chief financial officer of Carnegie Steel.

Bessemer Trust retains its original focus as a privately owned and independent wealth manager deeply committed to its mission of providing peace of mind to its clients. Bessemer’s adherence to putting clients’ interests first, fiduciary mindset, and highly collaborative culture are at the heart of everything the firm does.

• For 118 years, Bessemer Trust has operated continuously in a single line of business, independently owned by one family.
• Headquartered in New York’s Rockefeller Center, Bessemer Trust has 22 offices in total. Woodbridge, NJ, is one of the firm’s largest offices, which hosts a wide range of technology and operations professionals. In addition to its sizable presence in New York and Woodbridge, the firm provides client service through offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Denver, Garden City, Grand Cayman, Greenwich, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Naples, Nevada, Palm Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Stuart, and Washington, D.C.
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