Enterprise Architect

New American Funding

16d•$150,000 - $175,000•Remote

About The Position

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

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
12+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in architecture or technical leadership.
Deep expertise designing distributed systems, service‑oriented architectures, and cloud‑native applications.
Hands‑on experience with:.NET Core (C#), React/Angular, Azure (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Event Grid, Monitoring
Strong understanding of:Microservices, DDD/EDD, CQRS, and performance/scalability engineering
Proven ability to influence without authority across product and engineering organizations.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to operate effectively across distributed teams and time zones.
Demonstrated ability to produce architecture documentation and diagrams (e.g., UML, data‑flow) and to mentor diverse engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Azure Developer Associate
Experience in Mortgage, FinTech, or Financial Services
Prior experience in high‑scale, production‑critical environments
Experience integrating with vendor APIs or external platforms
Experience working across globally distributed engineering teams

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.