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Chief Architect, Infrastructure & Enterprise Architecture

San Francisco, CA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$260k-$290kDetected 3 days ago
DatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsHRISLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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Level III$193,1493 entries
Level IV$221,1874 entries

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About the role

  • Happen Bank is seeking a Chief Architect to define and lead the Bank's enterprise architecture strategy, technical standards, and infrastructure architecture. This is a hands-on leadership role, with approximately one-third of the position focused on designing cloud and platform infrastructure, reviewing critical technical decisions, and developing reference architectures that enable Engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.
  • You'll lead a federated Architecture Guild across business units and directly manage the Shared Architecture team, establishing clear standards, design governance, and alignment across the organization. Working closely with Engineering, Security, Risk, and Regulatory Relations, you'll ensure architecture decisions balance delivery speed, technical quality, and regulatory requirements.
  • Happen Bank is seeking a Chief Architect to define and lead the Bank's enterprise architecture strategy, technical standards, and infrastructure architecture.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture review process, providing direction and resolving complex cross-domain design decisions while ensuring decisions are documented with clear context, alternatives, and tradeoffs
  • Establish and maintain the enterprise technology standards catalog, including approved and retiring patterns, exception processes, and decision-making authority
  • Partner with Security, Risk, and Regulatory Relations to ensure architecture decisions incorporate appropriate security, control, and regulatory considerations
  • Develop reference architectures, detailed design documents, and working implementations that Engineering teams can adopt, partnering with infrastructure teams to deliver reusable tooling and solutions aligned with security and compliance standards
  • Lead architecture for major platform initiatives, including the data platform migration to Databricks, ensuring technical decisions support long-term scalability, reliability, and business needs
  • Lead the federated Architecture Guild, establishing recurring design forums, shared standards, cross-team peer reviews, and consistent architecture practices across business units
  • Drive architectural consistency while preserving business-unit autonomy and delivery velocity, using clear standards and guardrails rather than unnecessary approval bottlenecks
  • Identify and address architectural debt, duplicated capabilities, and cross-domain design challenges to improve the efficiency and sustainability of the technology environment

Nice to have

  • Experience leading architecture within a federated, guild, or chapter operating model
  • Experience defining architecture standards that have successfully supported regulatory examinations
  • Experience operating across both large, established institutions and high-velocity product engineering environments
  • Happen Bank offers relocation, based on actual job level.
  • Time Zone Requirements
  • Local hours (PT)
  • Demonstrated success providing technical leadership to architects across organizational boundaries, including influencing teams and individuals without direct reporting relationships
  • You take ownership of complex technical decisions, apply sound judgment when navigating ambiguity, and establish clear standards that enable teams to operate independently while maintaining architectural consistency

Compensation

  • The target base salary range for this position is 260,000-290,000.
  • The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge, experience, education, skills, and location.
  • Base salary is just one part of Happen Bank's Total Rewards package.
  • You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance, employee performance and eligible earnings).

Benefits

  • You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance, employee performance and eligible earnings).
  • Define and maintain Happen Bank's enterprise target-state architecture, aligning the long-term technical vision with business objectives and the Architecture Guild
  • We will only share your interview, transcription, or summary with persons whose expertise or technology is necessary to process your application, evaluate your fitness for a position, and administer or support the tool.

Company info

  • Respect and fairness is part of our DNA, and that ideal shapes how we work, how we treat each other, and how we invest in our employees and our community.
  • Base salary is just one part of Happen Bank's Total Rewards package.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process.
  • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job

Equal opportunity

  • If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at interviewaccommodations@happen.com.
  • equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • You will have the opportunity to opt out of recording, transcription, and summarization prior to any scheduled interviews.
  • We will not discriminate against you if you choose to opt out.
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