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Magic EdTech

Enterprise Architect - VP Technology

🇺🇸 New York, NY

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $100K - $160K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ September 5th, 2025

SaaS

Edtech.com's Summary

Magic EdTech is hiring an Enterprise Architect - VP Technology. The role involves aligning EdTech technical and business strategies, designing and leading solution architecture, assessing customer architectures, and driving technology advisory and consulting services while collaborating with project management and IT teams.

Highlights
  • Lead architecture design and align technology with EdTech business strategies
  • Assess and analyze customer technical objectives and architectures
  • Own technical solution parameters in proposal responses
  • Implement transformation and transitional architectures
  • Experience required: minimum 10 years in EdTech platform development; 2 years in a similar role
  • Technical skills: engineering and software architecture design, content distribution, learning management, web/mobile platforms, DevOps
  • Good to have skills: system security, database management, SaaS platforms, business analysis, project/product management
  • Must communicate effectively with CTO and business teams
  • Ability to collaborate with remote teams across time zones
  • Salary range: $100K to $160K

Enterprise Architect - VP Technology Full Description

Enterprise Architect - VP Technology

Salary Range: $100K to $160K
Locations: New York, USA
Experience: 10 Years

Role:
  • Aligning EdTech technical and business strategies
  • Design and lead the architecture of a solution
  • Assess a customer’s current architecture by investigating its components
  • Analyze a customer’s objective and assess the opportunities, risks, benefits, and costs
  • Own the technical solution parameters in a proposal response
  • Bring a “big picture” perspective to the adoption of new ideas
  • Define how technology can be used to solve a given business problem
  • Identify which framework, platform, or tech stack needs to be used for a given solution
  • Implement transformation and transitional architecture
  • Participate in the transformation board alongside the customer’s CTO
  • Define and drive the technology advisory and consulting services
  • Collaborate with project management and IT development teams.
 
Experience:
The candidate should have a minimum experience of 10 years in building EdTech platforms and solutions with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in a similar role. The candidate is expected to have experience, practical skills, and knowledge in the following:

Must have
  • Proven experience in engineering and software architecture design for developing EdTech solutions like Content distribution, Learning management, Authoring, Web / mobile reader, Assessment, Learning Analytics
  • Ability to review the actual implementation of the architecture and integration point
  • Infrastructure and engineering design
  • Web and Mobility platforms
  • DevOps

Good to have
  • System security measures
  • Database management
  • SaaS-based platform
  • Business analysis
  • Project and product management
 
Soft Skills:
The candidate should possess the following qualities:

Expert communication skills: The Solution Architect must be capable of communicating clearly the technical aspects with CTO and the business organization.

Mastery of software development process and technical skills: The candidate must possess plenty of knowledge in technical aspects to be able to provide guidance, identify risks, and assess the technology architecture and infrastructure of the solution.

Detail oriented: The candidate must be a detail-oriented individual.

Technology agnostic: Technology is constantly changing, the candidate must stay on top of the latest technologies, techniques, and tools.

Collaboration: The candidate must have past experience in collaborating with the remotely located team at offshore locations that entail a different time zone.