Staff Enterprise Architect

Details

Coinbase's Enterprise Architecture team translates business objectives into technology decisions across 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.

This role will own key Enterprise Engineering initiatives, including Technical Debt, Application Portfolio Management, and the Integration Keys Mechanism, and will contribute to the Architecture Forum. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only, company, with quarterly in-person working sessions called “surges.”

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and expertise in developing, maintaining, and governing enterprise architecture guidelines and design patterns to ensure the reliability and scalability of the application ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps that guide the evolution of the application ecosystem from current to future states, aligned with strategic and business capability roadmaps.
• Drive application portfolio health programs focused on identifying, mitigating, and eliminating technical debt and implementing security hardening where appropriate.
• Evaluate new applications and platforms for alignment with 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 an Architecture Forum of architects and engineers by facilitating collaboration, debate, and education on acceptable design patterns and solutions.
• Lead the analysis and evaluation of leading and emerging technologies and market trends, assessing their impact and opportunities for enterprise architecture, with a focus on digital capabilities and innovations that support business strategy.
• Work closely 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, overseeing technical aspects from current-state assessments through delivery and execution.

Requirements

• At least five years of hands-on Enterprise Architecture experience, with a proven record of collaboration with domain, data, and security engineers, as well as solution architects.
• Ability to develop, document, and publish Enterprise Architecture guidelines and design patterns aligned with organizational objectives.
• Proficiency in cybersecurity 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 Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with broad and lasting architectural impact.
• Experience working within high-performing teams, providing constructive feedback, and fostering continuous improvement.
• Ability to handle complex escalations, communicate trade-offs, and drive 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 Have

• Enthusiasm for crypto, blockchain, and NFT industries, with 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.
• Experience with SQL and modern data stores such as Snowflake.
• Deep understanding of Salesforce 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.

Compensation

The annual base salary range, excluding equity and bonus, is $193,970–$228,200 USD. Total compensation may also include equity, bonus eligibility, and medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.

Candidates may submit a maximum of three applications within a six-month period. Coinbase is an equal opportunity employer. US applicants are subject to applicable employee rights, E-Verify, candidate privacy, and arbitration notices. Reasonable accommodations are available.