Staff Enterprise Architect

Coinbase

2d•$193,970 - $228,200•Remote

About The Position

The Enterprise Architecture team translates business objectives into technology decisions across Coinbase's business systems, including custom-developed applications, third-party applications, and agentic automations. The team partners with business functions and engineering teams to buy, build, and scale software applications, with a focus on design patterns, technical debt, and security. The Staff Enterprise Architect will own key Enterprise Engineering initiatives, including Technical Debt, Application Portfolio Management, and the Integration Keys Mechanism, and contribute to the Architecture Forum. The role provides enterprise architecture leadership and expertise, develops roadmaps and standards, advances application portfolio health, evaluates technologies and platforms, and supports enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

Requirements

At least five years of hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience, including collaboration with domain, data, and security engineers and solution architects.
Demonstrated ability to develop, document, and publish Enterprise Architecture guidelines and design patterns aligned with organizational objectives.
Proficiency in security best practices, including authentication, authorization, encryption, integration key management, and logging.
Significant experience leading efforts to identify, monitor, and strategically reduce technical debt across an enterprise.
Strong background setting and achieving OKRs with broad and lasting impacts on architectural decisions and outcomes.
Experience working in high-performing teams, providing constructive feedback, and fostering continuous improvement.
Skill in managing complex escalations, communicating trade-offs, and driving decisions to timely and successful resolutions.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architectural concepts to senior technical and business leaders, subject matter experts, peers, and technical delivery teams.

Nice To Haves

Enthusiasm for the crypto, blockchain, and NFT industries and an understanding of their economic impact.
Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Anaplan, Workday, Contentful, or comparable systems.
Experience designing or improving high-load customer service platforms for scalability and reliability.
Experience developing quantitative architecture risk models, including measuring technical debt and trade-offs using risk factors.
Knowledge of Agile and non-Agile Software Development Life Cycle methodologies.
Proficiency in at least one systems-level programming language; Go is highly preferred.
Familiarity with modern development frameworks and languages, including Go, React, JavaScript, and TypeScript and their ecosystems.
Experience with SQL and modern data stores such as Snowflake for managing and querying large datasets.
Deep understanding of Salesforce (SFDC) architecture, including multi-org strategies and customization best practices.
Proficiency with Git, Confluence, Jira, LeanIX, or equivalent tools for version control, documentation, project management, and enterprise architecture.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, maintenance, and governance of enterprise architecture guidelines and design patterns to support a reliable and scalable application ecosystem.
Develop and maintain technical roadmaps that guide the application ecosystem from current to future states and align with strategic and business capability roadmaps.
Drive application portfolio health programs to identify, mitigate, and eliminate technical debt and strengthen security where appropriate.
Evaluate new applications and platforms for alignment with organizational technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards across business, application, data, solution, and technology perspectives.
Develop and maintain system diagrams illustrating the relationship between business value, capabilities, and technology.
Contribute to the Architecture Forum by facilitating collaboration, debate, and education on acceptable design patterns and solutions.
Analyze and evaluate leading and emerging technologies and market trends, assessing their impact and opportunities for enterprise architecture, especially digital capabilities and innovations supporting business strategy.
Work with solution architects to provide frameworks, guidelines, and best practices for implementing and configuring applications and database technologies.
Contribute to large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives and oversee technical aspects from current-state assessments through delivery and execution.
Own key Enterprise Engineering initiatives, including Technical Debt, Application Portfolio Management, and the Integration Keys Mechanism.