Architect – Enterprise Platforms
Qcells North America · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteArt & CreativeFull-time
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the enterprise architecture across business, application, data, integration, and security domains.
- Establish and drive a multi-year North Star architecture and roadmap across enterprise platforms.
- Develop reference architectures, reusable patterns, and guardrails across enterprise applications and custom-built platforms.
- Architect integrations across enterprise applications, fintech, loan origination/servicing, utility, and partner ecosystems.
- Drive API-first and event-driven integration strategies leveraging middleware and Azure cloud services.
- Lead architecture governance processes and chair the Architecture Review Board.
- Own and align Azure cloud architecture with enterprise platform requirements, ensuring scalability and interoperability.
- Establish enterprise standards for reliability, performance, security, compliance, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Translate complex business workflows into scalable, secure platform solutions.
- Partner with Data Architecture to ensure alignment of data models, governance, and integration patterns.
- Communicate architectural strategy and decisions to executive stakeholders and promote best practices across engineering teams.
Requirements
- 10–15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, systems architecture, or solution architecture roles.
- Deep expertise across application, integration, data, and security architecture domains.
- Strong experience integrating enterprise business systems (e.g., fintech, credit, servicing, or operational systems).
- Proven experience designing API-first and event-driven architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Azure (or comparable hyperscaler) cloud architecture, including scalability, security, and interoperability patterns.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and executive presentation skills.
- Travel may be required up to 10%, depending on business needs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with CRM platforms (e.g., Salesforce Sales/Service/Experience/Platform Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics, or comparable).
- Experience with ERP platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, Oracle, NetSuite, or comparable suites).
- Experience with origination, servicing, payments, or financial systems integrated with enterprise platforms.
- Familiarity with solar/energy workflows, financing, and utility integrations.
- Experience with middleware platforms, API gateways, and event streaming architectures (e.g., MuleSoft, Boomi, Kafka, Azure Service Bus/Event Grid).
- Familiarity with TOGAF or comparable enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Solar Industry experience (Renewable).