GitLab

Staff Enterprise Architect

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4 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$168k - $286k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Map business capabilities, processes, systems of record, ownership, and sources of operational friction across enterprise systems.
  • Architect end-to-end processes spanning product introduction, CPQ, quote-to-cash, billing, revenue recognition, renewals, record-to-report, and customer service.
  • Produce high-level designs, target-state architectures, decision records, reference patterns, data models, mappings, error handling, and failure-mode specifications.
  • Serve as an embedded architect for Applications engineering teams working with Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora, Zendesk, Workato, and other core platforms.
  • Govern application changes, data-model changes, third-party packages, platform upgrades, customization levels, and architectural standards.
  • Design API-first integrations, event-driven patterns, batch pipelines, data warehouse models, reverse ETL, data contracts, and AI data-access boundaries.
  • Define integration, identity, access-management, secrets-handling, AI-agent tool-interface, platform, and cloud-service patterns.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Data, enterprise AI, and engineering teams on reliability, authentication, authorization, non-functional requirements, and AI governance.
  • Conduct platform health checks and monitor customization, API limits, automation, storage, transaction volumes, AI consumption, licenses, and cloud costs.
  • Lead through influence by co-authoring designs, resolving technical ambiguity, building proofs of concept, root-causing production defects, and reducing technical debt.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in application architecture and data architecture, with working fluency in business-process and technology architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with integration, automation, applied AI, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, agent orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails.
  • Experience architecting ERP, CRM, CPQ, billing, financial, and customer-service platforms while maintaining standard, upgradeable, and SOX-compliant designs.
  • Expert-level knowledge of data modeling, integration architecture patterns, API design, data warehouses, and ELT, ETL, and reverse ETL pipelines.
  • Depth with iPaaS tooling and production integration operations, including cost and consumption optimization, plus working knowledge of cloud platforms.
  • Experience driving architectural change through influence, adopting standards across teams, participating in review forums, and communicating trade-offs to Director and VP stakeholders.
  • Strong judgment regarding where AI, deterministic automation, or human work should be used in enterprise processes.

Benefits

  • All roles are remote, with some roles subject to location-based eligibility requirements.
  • Benefits include health, financial, and well-being support, flexible paid time off, team member resource groups, equity compensation, an employee stock purchase plan, a growth and development fund, and parental leave.
  • The position is a full-time role.

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GitLab

About GitLab

1,001-5,000 employees

GitLab builds a DevSecOps platform that unifies source code management, CI/CD, and security with AI-assisted workflows for software teams and enterprises. It sells cloud-hosted and self-managed subscriptions, plus enterprise features and support. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, GitLab is a public company listed on NASDAQ and is widely used by large enterprises, including many in the Fortune 100.

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