Enterprise Systems Architect

Responsibilities

• Overall Technology Architecture
• Own Schellman's entire technology architecture -integrations, backend systems, APIs, and digital experiences (Client and Assessor Portals).
• Evaluate our current integration approach (API Hub + Workato ) and create a comprehensive build vs. buy vs. integrate strategy for platform integrations. Assess whether our current approach is the right long-term direction or if adjustments are needed as we scale.
• Design digital experience architecture -define backend and frontend technology choices (React, Angular, Node.js, etc.), frameworks, patterns, and AWS infrastructure that enable rapid development and excellent user experience.
• Create a cohesive vision that connects all pieces: how platform integrations feed data to portals, how user interactions flow back to core systems, how AI/automation (including Claude-powered features) enhances both internal and external experiences.
• Platform Integration & APIs
• Optimize and evolve our integration platform strategy , leveraging Workato , custom APIs, and cloud-native services thoughtfully based on use case.
• Define integration patterns and standards that enable teams to move fast while maintaining consistency, security, and scalability across Workato and custom integration layers.
• Lead the roadmap for expanding integrations to new systems and optimizing existing ones as the business evolves.
• Cross-Functional Architectural Leadership
• Partner with Engineering to ensure platform and experience designs align with overall strategy and support rapid delivery.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to understand business requirements and translate them into architectural decisions.
• Work with IT Infrastructure & Security to design secure, resilient, cloud-first systems (AWS) and ensure compliance.
• Partner with Data & Analytics to ensure data flows are architected for analytics, governance, and quality.
• Engage with the AI Engineering team to understand AI/ML requirements and design platforms that enable intelligent automation.
• Architectural Governance & Standards
• Establish architectural decision frameworks that balance innovation, speed, and technical debt.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation at multiple levels (conceptual, logical, physical, operational).
• Define and evolve technology standards for APIs, backends, frontends, data, and infrastructure.
• Drive alignment across departments on architectural priorities and trade-offs.
• Technical Vision & Communication
• Develop the 3-year technology roadmap in partnership with the CTO, translating business strategy into technical direction.
• Communicate complex architectures clearly to diverse audiences-from individual contributors to the Board. Strong visualization and diagramming skills are essential.
• Champion architectural thinking across the organization, elevating the maturity of how we approach technical decision-making.
• Mentor and develop engineering and architecture talent as the team grows

Benefits

Additional Information

Schellman is a Top 50 CPA firm and a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Our professional services focus on security and privacy audits, assessments, and certifications. Schellman has become one of the largest cybersecurity assessment firms in the United States without providing any traditional accounting services. We are an accredited multi-framework ISO Certification Body for security, privacy, business continuity, and quality; a globally licensed PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a top provider to clients serving the federal DoD space as a leading FedRAMP 3PAO and the first assessment firm authorized as a CMMC C3PAO. Our specialty and expertise remain in providing best in class Cybersecurity and IT Audits and Attestations. Our culture, approach with clients, and dedication to our values has led us to consistently be a Great Places to Work certified company and rated as a Best Firms to Work For by Accounting Today and a Glassdoor Best Places to Work. We deeply appreciate our employees, as shown by our first core value - People Come First. This is demonstrated in our culture, benefits, and how we handle business. Come see what makes Schellman special! The Enterprise Architect is a strategic, high-impact individual contributor. This role owns the overall technology architecture for Schellman, spanning platform integrations, backend systems, APIs, and digital experiences (Client and Assessor Portals). This person serves as the principal architect across the technology organization, providing essential connective tissue. This is a hands-on, strategic role that requires both deep technical thinking and the ability to communicate across departments and up to leadership. The architect works collaboratively with the CTO and peers across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure & Security, Data & Analytics, and the AI Engineering team to shape Schellman's technology strategy. This role r eport s directly to the Chief Technology Officer .

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