Enterprise Architect

ezCater, Inc • Boston, MA

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.
ezCater is re-platforming its marketplace on Nova, a composable platform built from domain capabilities, while the existing business continues to grow and deliver. The architectural decisions made over the next two years will shape the company for the next ten. This role exists to make sure those decisions get made well, on time, and stick.
The Enterprise Architect is our most senior individual contributor in technology, sitting above Principal on our ladder and reporting directly to the Chief Product and Technology Officer. It carries real decision authority, not advisory reach: you chair the Architecture Board, own the architecture decision process, and hold standing authority over our most consequential workstreams.

Requirements

• 15+ years in software engineering with experience as the accountable architect for a platform transformation or re-platforming at scale, ideally in marketplace, commerce, or transactional systems.
• Made and defended consequential decisions on event-driven architecture, service decomposition, data and identity modeling, and build-versus-buy, and can show which ones were gotten wrong and what was done about it.
• Writes clearly: your Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), RFCs, and assessments are artifacts people align around.
• Hands-on enough to read a design or a diff and earn the respect of Principal engineers, and senior enough to say no to a VP with a deadline.
• Operates through influence and decision rights rather than headcount, and has done it before in an organization where architecture authority had to be established, not inherited.

Responsibilities

• Chair the Architecture Board and own its decision register: every open architecture decision has an owner and a date, and a decision past its date is treated as a program risk.
• Run the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) gate that workstreams pass through before build.
• Hold standing architecture authority over our foundational platform programs spanning data, identity, events, and core services, and set the target-state architecture that connects the legacy platform, the new platform, and the migration path between them.
• Pressure-test designs with senior engineers across the org, raise the quality of technical decision-making broadly, and represent architecture directly to executive leadership.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary
• stock options
• 12 paid holidays
• flexible PTO
• 401K with ezCater match
• health/dental/FSA
• long-term disability insurance
• mental health and family planning resources
• remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
• a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• wicked awesome co-workers
• employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed