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Systems Architect Sr.

Brown Brothers Harriman
Jersey City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Oct 2025
💰 $195,000/yr($145,000/yr$195,000/yr)

About the role

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

BBH is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Compliance Systems team as a Senior Systems Architect. As part of the Compliance Systems team, the role is to provide innovative data solutions across several business units. You must be highly skilled, team oriented, and eager to learn to contribute in a mature and proactive way to all phases of a project lifecycle.

Main areas of responsibilities:

• Act as a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the architecture, design decisions for a products development

• Consistent practice in coding and unit testing

• Conduct code reviews for the team and have well establish standards and practices for the team

• Work with distributed teams (infrastructure, network, etc.) and act as subject matter expert

• Provide technical leadership on best practices for chosen architecture and technology

• Identify issues and risks and proactively add to the iterative discussion

• Communicate efficiently within and outside the team

• Strong organizational, time management

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years in leading a team of engineers to develop and deliver new services.

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a software engineer in a full-stack capacity

• Demonstrate critical thinking and drive application architecture and design decisions

• Design and develop scalable technical implementations and integrations with vendor products

• Improve the code quality with effective testing and review process

• Experience working with technical management, product owners, and operations

• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones

• Experience working with vendor and vendor products

• Proficiency in Python and/or Java including core libraries & design patterns (Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Integration)

• Experience with one or more modern front-end frameworks/libraries such as Angular, React is a plus

• Experience with test frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Mockito

• Experience with version control practices using Git

• Experience with iterative and agile methodology

• Knowledge of AML, Sanctions and KYC Systems, including Oracle FCCM and Fircosoft is a plus

• Document Management systems experience, such as Oracle WCC is a plus

• GRC Platform experience, such as Archer is a plus

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

• Good communicator, keen to collaborate and share knowledge

   

Salary Range

$145,000 - $195,000

BBH’s compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing. The anticipated base salary range(s) shown above are only for the indicated location(s) and may differ in other locations due to cost of living and labor considerations. Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skill, experience and qualification for the role. BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being. 


 

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and

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