EVP, IT Architecture & Engineering

Vistra is a leading provider of essential business services to help companies and private capital funds grow across the entire business and investment lifecycle. We work with nearly half of the Fortune Global 500, managing more than 200,000 legal entities, and working with two-thirds of the Private Equity International (PEI) 300.

Vistra is owned by BPEA EQT, the Asian private equity arm of EQT, which is the 3rd largest PE fund globally. We are currently in an exciting phase of accelerated growth and digitally powered transformation, driven by a bold vision and a dynamic executive leadership team. As we transform to become fully digital & AI powered, scale our operations and evolve our business model, we are investing in our people and culture, injecting and cultivating the skills and capabilities needed to support our future focused transformation and growth plans while ensuring we remain agile, innovative, and client focused.

Vistra operates across two primary client groups:

• Vistra Funds Services (VFS) focuses on supporting Funds clients (Private Equity; Real Estate and Private Credit) through the delivery of Funds Administration; Investor Onboarding; AIFM; Depositary and similar offerings, and
• Vistra Global Solutions (VGS) which is focused on Corporate (and corporate like) clients through the delivery of such offerings as Company Incorporations; Legal Entity Management & Compliance services; Financial Accounting and Tax services and Payroll and Payments services.

As Vistra continues to scale its global delivery hubs and transitions toward a platformled, AIenabled operating model, enterprise architecture and engineering are no longer backoffice IT functions. They are strategic enablers of margin, risk control, operational resilience, and client experience.

Role Purpose

The EVP, IT Architecture & Engineering is accountable for defining and executing Vistra's enterprisewide technology architecture and engineering strategy, ensuring that platforms, systems, and integrations are secure, scalable, costeffective, and fit for a regulated global business.

This role:

• Owns Vistra's enterprise, cloud, data, integration, and security architecture,
• Ensures technology actively enables global delivery scale, automation, and AI adoption,
• Reduces fragmentation and technical debt across regions and service lines,
• Acts as a senior advisor to ExCo on technology risk, investment, and prioritisation.

It is a handson executive role with accountability for delivery, not just standards.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Strategy

• Define and own Vistra's global enterprise architecture framework, aligned to business strategy and operating model.
• Develop and maintain multiyear architecture roadmaps across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, integration, and security.
• Lead global architecture governance, including approval, exception, and lifecycle management of technology standards.
• Produce highquality HLDs and reference architectures for core platforms and transformation themes.

Architecture & Engineering Domain Leadership

Provide integrated leadership across:

• Application Architecture: ERP, CRM, enterprise systems, regulated SaaS platforms.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hybrid cloud, compute, storage, network, enduser services.
• Data & Analytics: Data platforms, pipelines, governance, transformation layers.
• Integration: API strategy, middleware, eventdriven and asynchronous architectures.
• Security Architecture: Zero trust, IAM, telemetry, AI guardrails, regulatory controls.

Digital & Platform Enablement

• Partner with Technology, Product, Operations, and Data leaders on major transformation programmes.
• Drive cloudfirst, platformcentric modernisation.
• Ensure solutions are modular, scalable, resilient, and costtransparent.
• Actively assess emerging technologies while preventing uncontrolled tech sprawl.

Governance, Risk & Technical Debt

• Establish global architecture principles, standards, and patterns.
• Lead architecture assurance for all major investments and programmes.
• Reduce technical debt through structured lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with global data, security, and regulatory requirements.

Executive & Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a trusted advisor to ExCo on technology strategy, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Translate business strategy into clear, executable technology blueprints.
• Align regional IT teams around a single architectural direction.

Team & Capability Building

• Build and lead a highperforming global architecture and engineering capability.
• Develop enterprise, domain, and solution architects across regions.
• Establish architecture communities of practice and shared design standards.

Vendor & Ecosystem Management

• Shape strategic relationships with key technology vendors and integrators.
• Influence enterprise agreements and architectural decisions.
• Ensure thirdparty solutions comply with Vistra architecture and security standards.

Jobs To Be Done (JTBD)

The EVP will be expected to deliver clear, measurable outcomes across Vistra's global footprint.

1. Enable Scalable Global Delivery Hubs

• Design architectures that allow services to scale across India, ASEAN, and China without linear growth in cost or risk.
• Support shared service and delivery hub models through standardised, platformcentric designs.

2. Simplify & Standardise a Fragmented Technology Estate

• Rationalise applications, integrations, and infrastructure using buy / hold / modernise / retire principles.
• Reduce dependency on bespoke systems and pointtopoint integrations.

3. Make Architecture an Accelerator, Not a Constraint

• Shift architecture governance from slow approval gates to agile, designled enablement.
• Provide clear reference architectures and HLDs that accelerate delivery teams.

4. Embed Security, Compliance & Resilience by Design

• Ensure architectures meet data protection, regulatory, and operational resilience requirements across jurisdictions.
• Embed zerotrust, identityfirst, and telemetrydriven security models.

5. Enable AI, Data & Automation at Scale

• Ensure platforms are AIready: APIfirst, datarich, cloudnative, and observable.
• Partner with Data & AI leadership to ensure architecture enables nonlinear scaling through automation and intelligence.

Experience & Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (Master's or MBA preferred).
• 15+ years experience in enterprise architecture and engineering leadership.
• 8+ years in senior enterprise or domain architecture roles.
• Proven success defining and executing enterprisewide architecture strategies in complex, global environments.
• Strong experience across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or equivalent).
• Deep expertise in enterprise applications, integration, and data platforms.
• Proven experience operating in regulated or risksensitive industries.

Preferred

• TOGAF, Zachman, or equivalent enterprise architecture certification.
• Experience leading largescale ERP or cloud transformation programmes.
• Experience building architecture capability in Global Capability Centres (GCCs) or shared services models.

Leadership Standards:

• Enterprise Orientation – Makes decisions based on what is best for the enterprise P&L.
• Judgment and Decision Authority – makes timely, high-quality decisions under ambiguity, owns consequences and does not escalate avoidable risk upwards.
• Change Leadership and Transformation Delivery – Personally leads and lands major change ensuring adoption, behavior change, and realized benefits.
• Influence without authority – creates alignment and movement across peers, regions and functions without relying on hierarchy or escalation.
• Future-relevant capability and mindset – Possesses the skill, adaptability and mindset required for Vistra's 2025 – 2028 operating model: platformitisation, digital enablement, global simplification, and commercial discipline.

What Vistra Offers

• Competitive executive compensation and incentive structure.
• Opportunity to shape Vistra's global technology and delivery architecture.
• Direct influence on scalability, margin, resilience, and risk outcomes.
• A highimpact role at the centre of Vistra's transformation.