Enterprise Architect

Overview: **Position:** Enterprise Software Architect**\*\*Mortgage, Lending, or Fintech Experience Preferred\*\*\*** **Location****:** Remote \- hybrid if located within 30 miles from Santa Ana, CA or Austin, TX (4 days on\-site) **Pay:** starting at $165K\+ depending on experience \+ plus benefits * *Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level* **Position Summary** We are seeking an experienced and technically strong Enterprise Architect to join our architecture team. This US based, fully remote role plays a pivotal part in enabling engineering teams across time zones and ensuring architectural consistency across platforms and products. This is more than just a technical position \- this role requires a highly communicative, hands on architect who thrives on clarity, collaboration, and coaching. You will work directly with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to create scalable and maintainable systems, provide thoughtful architectural direction, and be a key voice across strategic and enterprise wide technology decisions. **Disclaimer:** Identity Verification checks are in place throughout the Candidate journey to prevent candidate fraud. In\-Person Interview Required Responsibilities: * Support engineering teams with architectural direction, design guidance, and decision making across time zones. * Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable systems using modern architectural principles such as domain driven design, event driven design, microservices, and service oriented patterns. * Translate complex technical concepts into clear diagrams, documentation, and written guidance for technical and non technical audiences. * Partner with product managers, engineering leadership, and technical leads to align architecture with business strategy and roadmap priorities. * Participate in design reviews, solution walkthroughs, architecture reviews, and mentoring across engineering teams. * Create and maintain system diagrams, architecture documentation, standards, and reference materials. * Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends and incorporate new learnings into architectural strategy. * Work with DevOps/SRE teams to strengthen observability, reliability, monitoring, and operational maturity. * Oversee architectural design and integration patterns for internal platforms and external vendor systems. * Influence without authority: drive adoption of standards, patterns, and decisions across multiple teams and leaders through persuasion, credibility, and results (not positional power). * Community of Practice: actively participate in—and help facilitate—a Community of Practice with Solutions Architects to share patterns, publish reference designs, align on guardrails, and continuously improve delivery consistency. Qualifications: * Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience. * 12\+ years of software engineering