Staff Enterprise Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the development, upkeep, and governance of enterprise architecture standards and design frameworks.

• Create and manage technical roadmaps that align the evolution of applications with strategic and business capability plans.

• Spearhead application portfolio health initiatives to identify, manage, and eliminate technical debt while enhancing security measures.

• Assess applications and platforms in relation to technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards.

• Develop and sustain system diagrams that connect business value, capabilities, and technology.

• Participate in the Architecture Forum by promoting collaboration, discussion, and education on design patterns and solutions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies and market trends, analyzing their potential impact and opportunities within enterprise architecture.

• Collaborate with solution architects to establish frameworks, guidelines, and best practices for application and database technologies.

• Engage in enterprise-wide transformation efforts from current-state assessments through to delivery and execution.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of five (5) years of practical experience in Enterprise Architecture.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with domain, data, and security engineers, as well as solution architects.

• Capacity to develop, document, and disseminate Enterprise Architecture guidelines and design patterns that align with the organization's goals.

• Expertise in security best practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, integration key management, and logging.

• Extensive experience leading initiatives to identify, monitor, and strategically minimize technical debt across the organization.

• Strong background in setting and achieving Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that have a broad and lasting architectural impact.

• Proven track record of working within high-performing teams, providing constructive feedback, and promoting continuous improvement.

• Proficiency in managing complex escalations, communicating trade-offs, and driving timely decisions and resolutions.

• Outstanding communication skills for conveying complex architectural concepts to senior technical and business leaders, subject matter experts, peers, and technical delivery teams.

• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Anaplan, Workday, Contentful, or similar systems.

• Experience in designing or improving the performance of high-load customer service platforms.

• Background in developing quantitative architecture risk models.

• Knowledge of Agile and non-Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

• Proficiency in at least one systems-level programming language; Go is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with Go, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and associated ecosystems.

• Experience with SQL and modern data storage solutions such as Snowflake.

• In-depth understanding of Salesforce architecture, including multi-org strategies and customization best practices.

• Proficiency with tools such as Git, Confluence, Jira, LeanIX, or equivalent.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity.

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Medical insurance provided.

• Dental insurance included.

• Vision insurance available.

• 401(k) plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.

• Complimentary compatible screen reader for applicants requiring screen-reading technology.