Staff Enterprise Architect

This role can be worked hybrid from these SoFi Offices and possibly 100% remote

San Francisco CA

Salt Lake City UT

Seattle WA

Enterprise Architect (Enterprise Architecture Practice Lead) — SoFi

The Role:

SoFi is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to drive the expansion and enhancement of our Enterprise Architecture (EA) practice. While the foundation of our EA function exists we are looking for a visionary leader to help take the practice to the next level—maturing our methodologies scaling our standards and deepening the alignment between our technology investments and SoFi’s rapid growth.

The ideal candidate is business-savvy and technically proficient: a generalist across business application data and technology architecture domains who applies holistic thinking to align technology business process risk and financial outcomes to SoFi’s strategy. Reporting into the Technology organization you will be a hands-on leader who instantiates the enterprise continuum establishes rigorous standards and coaches others in areas such as governance and roadmap development.

What You’ll Do:

1) Strategic Planning & Enterprise Vision

• Enhance and scale the long-term enterprise technology roadmap and vision ensuring it evolves alongside SoFi’s corporate strategy and operating model.
• Evaluate existing systems and identify modernization opportunities across platforms and shared services to support future business needs.
• Assess emerging technologies—including AI-enabled productivity and automation—to enhance innovation while maintaining architectural integrity.
• Drive financial rigor in technology decisioning leveraging metrics such as ROI EVA and NPV to justify architectural shifts.

2) Architecture Design Standards & Governance

• Mature the EA practice by curating the enterprise continuum defining reference architectures and establishing "gold standards" for the organization.
• Own and enforce architecture governance policies and change advisory processes that ensure systems are scalable secure resilient and interoperable.
• Mature the governance and lifecycle management of our SaaS application portfolio ensuring consistency security and cost-efficiency across the organization.
• Architect the infrastructure and integration patterns required to support our enterprise AI strategy and other high-scale initiatives.

3) Architecture Across Domains

• Business & Security Architecture
• Examine all business processes and technology in a holistic manner ensuring alignment via methodologies like cascading goals or OKRs.
• Deepen the architectural integration of core corporate processes including Order to Cash Procure to Pay Hire to Retire Security and GRC (Governance Risk and Compliance).
• Ensure that security and risk management are "baked into" the business architecture rather than treated as an afterthought.
• Applications & Data Architecture
• Lead the design of large-scale complex enterprise systems using loosely-coupled service-oriented architecture (SOA) and microservices patterns.
• Oversee enterprise-level application portfolio management roadmapping and the maturation of master data management solutions.
• Guide the evolution of data platforms including EDW/data lakes ETL/ELT and real-time streaming data(e.g. Kafka).
• Technology Architecture
• Provide architectural oversight for data center building blocks and cloud capabilities (ideally AWS).
• Proven experience implementing Architecture-as-Code and 'Shift-Left' principles to automate architectural compliance within CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience transitioning from manual architectural reviews to a Guardrails-based Governance model that integrates compliance checks directly into the SDLC.

4) Stakeholder Collaboration & Leadership

• Act as the primary bridge between high-level business strategy and technical implementation translating complex technical trade-offs into business terms for executive leadership.
• Demonstrate diplomacy and persuasion when orchestrating enterprise-wide changes collaborating effectively across all levels of the organization.
• Passionately elevate the technical talent around you through mentoring coaching and establishing best practices that improve productivity and quality across multiple engineering teams.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of broad experience across the architecture domains of: business applications data and technology.
• Proven track record in a similarly scoped role having owned or significantly enhanced the design and strategy for an organization’s enterprise technology.
• Business Architecture Expertise: Working knowledge of common corporate processes (Order to Cash Procure to Pay Hire to Retire Security and GRC) domains.
• Technical Leadership: Deep understanding of SOA microservices and REST APIs (XML/JSON) with real-world experience building scalable globally-shared solutions.
• Data Proficiency: Experience with master data management data warehousing and big data streaming/ETL patterns.
• Infrastructure Awareness: Exposure to IaaS (AWS) IaC and CI/CD-driven automation.
• Framework Knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of common frameworks such as TOGAF Zachman ISO ITIL or Agile/SaFE.
• Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to syndicate roadmaps and influence executive-level stakeholders.
• Tooling: Familiarity with productivity platforms (Google Workspace Slack Jira) and emerging AI tools (Copilot Gemini Glean) is appreciated.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in information systems computer science or a combination of degrees spanning technical and business disciplines.
• Current TOGAF certification is a plus.

#LI-REMOTE

What We Do

SoFi wasn’t built to be a bank. Or a technology company. We were built for one mission: help people achieve financial independence so they can realize their ambitions. Redefining an entire industry isn’t easy work—and it’s not for the faint of heart. It takes a certain kind of team. People with diverse perspectives and expertise united by a common sense of purpose. People willing to challenge assumptions but always do the right thing. People proving that innovation and responsibility don’t have to compete but can come together to create something truly unconventional in the world. For the last eight years we’ve been charting this new path forward. We call it The SoFi Way. At SoFi we don’t just talk about culture: we live it. The SoFi Way is how we show up every day how we make decisions and how we build for our members clients and each other.

Why Work With Us

Together with our members we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We’re a next-generation Fintech company using innovative mobile-first technology to help our members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation and we’re at the forefront.

Gallery