[Hiring] Staff Enterprise Architect @GitLab

Role Description

As a Staff Enterprise Architect, you will design and evolve how GitLab's internal systems are configured, integrate, perform and scale to support a rapidly growing business. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture and AI Intelligent Automation, you will apply all four architecture lenses (business, application, data, and technology) to the systems in your scope, treating AI as a standing consideration inside each rather than a separate workstream.

Your job is depth: turning that direction into designs detailed enough to build, and being the person trusted with the hardest technical problems in the enterprise. You will not manage people. You will lead through architecture, as the partner to our Applications engineering teams and to Integration, RPA, and Intelligent Automation, and as a reviewer on the Architecture Review Board, where the aim is to make architecture an enabler rather than a gate.

What you'll do

• Business architecture
  • Map the current-state processes and capabilities supported by the systems in your scope.
  • Architect end-to-end processes that span front-office and back-office systems.
  • Redesign workflows before automating them.
• Application architecture
  • Produce high level designs and patterns for changes to core platforms.
  • Design for maintainability and supportability.
  • Govern application change by reviewing significant build proposals.
  • Run quarterly health checks on core platforms.
• Data architecture
  • Architect data flows across operational and analytical planes.
  • Design data access and handling patterns that meet privacy, residency, and SOX requirements.
  • Establish integration and data contracts between systems.
• Technology architecture
  • Define platform and integration patterns for the systems in your scope.
  • Design for reliability and scale in collaboration with Infrastructure.
  • Design authentication, authorization, and service-to-service access.
  • Monitor and optimize cloud and platform consumption.
• Across all four domains
  • Produce designs teams build from: target-state architectures, decision records, reference patterns, and high level designs.
  • Co-author designs with engineering teams and stay with them through build.
  • Collaborate closely with adjacent technology teams.
  • Maintain a prioritized inventory of technical debt across your domains.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in application architecture and data architecture.
• Strong hands-on background in integration, automation, and applied AI.
• Hands-on experience architecting core business systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of data modeling, integration architecture patterns, and API design.
• Depth in iPaaS tooling and operational realities of running integrations in production.
• A track record of driving architectural change through influence rather than authority.

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave

Company Description

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.