Staff Enterprise Architect

Overview

The Staff Enterprise Architect turns business objectives into technology decisions across Coinbase's business systems, including custom-developed, third-party applications, and agentic automations, and owns key Enterprise Engineering initiatives.

What you'll do

• Provide leadership and expertise in the development, maintenance, and governance of enterprise architecture guidelines and design patterns to ensure the reliability and scalability of the application ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps to guide the evolution of the application ecosystem from current to future states, aligning with strategic and business capability roadmaps.
• Drive application portfolio health programs focused on identifying, mitigating, and eliminating technical debt and security hardening where appropriate.
• Evaluate new applications and platforms to ensure alignment with the organization's technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards from business, application, data, solution, and technology perspectives.
• Develop and maintain system diagrams that illustrate the relationship between business value, capabilities, and technology.
• Contribute to an Architecture Forum of architects and engineers, 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 the enterprise architecture, with a focus on digital capabilities and innovations to 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.

What you'll need

• At least five (5) years of hands-on experience in Enterprise Architecture, with a proven track record of collaboration with domain, data, and security engineers, as well as solution architects.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, document, and publish Enterprise Architecture guidelines and design patterns that align with organizational objectives.
• Proficient in security best practices including authentication, authorization, encryption, integration key management, and logging.
• Significant experience in leading efforts to identify, monitor, and strategically reduce technical debt across the enterprise.
• Strong background in setting and achieving Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that have broad and lasting impacts on architectural decisions and outcomes.
• History of working within high-performing teams, offering constructive feedback, and fostering an environment of continuous improvement.
• Skilled in handling complex escalations, effectively communicating trade-offs, and driving decisions to timely and successful resolutions.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders, including senior technical and business leaders, subject matter experts, peers, and technical delivery teams.

Nice to have

• Strong enthusiasm for the crypto, blockchain, and NFT industries, with an understanding of their impact on the economy.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Anaplan, Workday, Contentful, or comparable systems, with the ability to leverage these tools effectively.
• Experience in designing or enhancing the performance of high-load customer service platforms, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Experience in developing quantitative architecture risk models, including the measurement of technical debt and trade-offs using risk factors.
• Knowledge of various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, including both Agile and non-Agile approaches.
• Proficiency in at least one systems-level programming language, with Go being highly preferred.
• Familiarity with modern development frameworks and languages, including Go, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, and their related 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.
• Strong proficiency in using Git, Confluence, Jira, LeanIX, or equivalent tools for version control, documentation, project management, and enterprise architecture.

Details

• Location: Remote - USA. Coinbase is remote-first, but not remote-only, with quarterly in-person working sessions called "surges".
• Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus): $193,970 — $228,200 USD.
• Total compensation may include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)).