Director, Enterprise Architecture & Intelligent Automation

GitLab

5h•Remote

About The Position

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. Over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab. The company embraces AI as a core productivity multiplier, expecting all team members to incorporate AI into their daily workflows. This role, Director, Enterprise Architecture and AI Intelligent Automation (IA), reports to the VP, Business Systems. The Director will define and govern how GitLab's internal systems connect, integrate, and evolve to support the rapidly scaling business, leading the Enterprise Architecture, Integration, & RPA teams. The role involves setting architectural standards, governance frameworks, and a strategic vision for the technology landscape, balancing strategic oversight with hands-on guidance for critical technical decisions. The architectural leader will establish and lead the Architecture Review Board, partner with system owners, rationalize automation and integration, reduce shadow IT, and drive clear patterns for data flows and system-of-record designations.

Requirements

Extensive experience defining and governing enterprise architecture in complex, matrixed organizations, including leading architecture strategy across core business systems such as ERP, CRM, CPQ, billing, and financial platforms.
Deep technical background across integration, automation, and AI, with the ability to step into Architecture, Integration, RPA teams and contribute meaningfully to design discussions and problem solving.
Expert-level knowledge of data modeling, integration architecture patterns, and API design, microservices architecture, including experience designing integration strategies that support both operational and analytical use cases.
Strong experience establishing and leading architecture review boards or similar governance frameworks, balancing partnership-oriented engagement with clear, enforceable standards.
Demonstrated success reducing shadow IT and software sprawl through thoughtful software governance, portfolio rationalization, and roadmap alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
Deep understanding of SOX compliance, internal controls, and security architecture for business applications, with experience designing audit-ready integration and automation patterns.
Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage VP and C-level stakeholders, translate complex architectural concepts into clear business language, and drive alignment across decentralized teams.

Responsibilities

Define and drive GitLab's enterprise architecture strategy, setting clear principles and patterns for how internal systems connect, integrate, and scale across platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora, Workato, and other core business applications.
Establish and lead GitLab's Architecture Review Board, engaging early with system owners and project teams to shape technical approaches, guide integration patterns, and ensure architectural decisions align with enterprise standards and business objectives including applying business capability & EA framework such as TOGAF
Design and govern integration architectures and data flow patterns, including API-first approaches, point-to-point integrations, and data warehouse and reverse ETL models, in close partnership with Data Governance and other cross-functional stakeholders.
Create and execute a cohesive automation strategy that spans agentic AI, robotic process automation (RPA), and traditional integration technologies, rationalizing existing investments and defining clear decision frameworks for tool selection.
Lead efforts to reduce shadow IT and software sprawl by implementing software governance processes, partnering with system owners to centralize fragmented solutions, eliminate redundant capabilities, and reduce technical debt and unnecessary spend.
Ensure enterprise, integration, and IA architectures meet SOX compliance and security requirements, including robust access controls, data governance, and audit-ready integration patterns that balance risk management with business agility.
Align decentralized system roadmaps with enterprise architecture strategy, systematically identify and address technical debt, and provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to Integration, RPA, and IA Engineering teams to elevate architectural thinking and execution.