Define and continuously evolve enterprise target-state architectures across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains
Develop and maintain multi-year architecture roadmaps that balance innovation, cost, risk, and delivery velocity
Translate business strategy into actionable architectural direction for product and platform teams
Ensure architectural decisions prioritize simplicity, scalability, resilience, and security
Leads the selection of new application, data, and infrastructure technologies and validates that selection aligns to target architecture and overall technology direction
Architecture Governance & Standards
Establish, own, and evolve enterprise architecture standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures
Lead architecture reviews to ensure alignment with target-state direction while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy
Partner with engineering leadership to ensure governance is enabling rather than blocking delivery
Promote consistent adoption of standards while allowing for pragmatic, data-driven exceptions
Document and evangelize utilization of AI technologies such as Codex, Claude, or other AI to to support Architectural practices
Ensure usage of AI in support of architectural deliverables meets governance and compliance considerations
Solution Alignment & Delivery Enablement
Collaborate closely with Solution Architects, Principal Engineers, and Engineering Teams to align designs with enterprise strategy
Provide architectural guidance during initiative inception, major design decisions, and complex trade-off discussions
Support teams in designing cloud-native, event-driven, and API-first solutions where appropriate
Ensure architectural decisions consider operational excellence, observability, and supportability
Modernization & Technical Debt Reduction
Assess legacy systems and define clear modernization and migration strategies
Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce architectural risk, duplication, and long-term cost
Guide incremental modernization efforts that minimize disruption while advancing target-state goals
Technology Evaluation & Innovation
Research and evaluate emerging technologies, platforms, and industry trends
Provides oversight to ensure Enterprise Architecture practices are maintained and continuously improved
Produce clear architecture decision records, whitepapers, and recommendations to support executive decision-making
Ensure new technology adoption aligns with enterprise standards, skills, and long-term strategy
Communication & Influence
Clearly communicate architectural intent, trade-offs, and decisions to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership
Champion the value of enterprise architecture as a business enabler, not just a technical function
Facilitate alignment across teams, departments, and portfolios in a complex, fast-moving organization
Benefits
Health insuranceVision insuranceRemote work options
Additional Information
The Enterprise Software Architect is accountable for defining, evolving, and communicating the enterprise's target-state architecture and technology strategy. This role ensures that software systems, data, platforms, and integration patterns are designed to scale, remain secure, and enable long-term business agility. The Enterprise Architect connects business strategy to technical execution, balancing near-term delivery with long-term architectural health.
This role operates at the intersection of strategy, execution, and influence. Success requires deep technical credibility, strong business acumen, and the ability to guide senior technical leaders and executives toward sound, pragmatic technology decisions. This architecture role is a hands-on and strategic leadership position, accountable for defining the enterprise future state, ensuring positive business outcomes enabled by that future state, and holding accountability for ensuring implementation aligns with target-state architecture. In doing so, the Enterprise Software Architect demonstrates a clear preference to buy and integrate commercially available or partner-provided solutions over building bespoke systems, making build decisions intentionally and only where they create differentiated business value.
This position is open across the United States with a preference for those in Seattle or the East Coast time zone. Seattle candidates will have a hybrid remote/in-office schedule where you will work from our casual, pet-friendly office at least 3 days a week .
Key Outcomes & Impact
The Enterprise Software Architect will:
Establish and maintain a cohesive enterprise architecture vision aligned with business objectives
Reduce complexity and technical debt through intentional simplification and modernization
Enable faster, safer delivery by providing clear standards, patterns, and guardrails
Improve technology investment decisions through roadmaps, governance, and metrics
Elevate architectural maturity across teams via mentorship, influence, and example
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