Coinbase, Inc. is seeking a full time employee to lead and grow its Enterprise Architecture organization within Coinbase’s Enterprise Applications and Architecture team.  As the leader of the Enterprise Architecture team, you will be  instrumental in aligning Coinbase’s business strategy with its technology vision and driving innovative and effective solutions for a diverse and complex set of business problems. Your organization will consist of architectural leaders supporting  a variety of internal business units, providing leadership to both the business and technology teams to drive solution directions and recommendations that advance the strategic goals and vision of both business and technology.

This role is a high visibility, technology leadership position requiring an extensive background and operational experience with architectural engagements, familiarity with major industry products and frameworks, domain expertise in common business units (HR, Finance, etc.) and the major 3rd-party applications supporting those domains, and a deep comprehension of industry standards and implementation techniques  

What You'll Be Doing (i.e., Job Duties) 

Provide architectural leadership for major technologies and initiatives, including but not limited to:

• Working with a team of talented Enterprise Architects, Ideate, visualize, gain consensus for, and document Coinbase's long-term, overall enterprise architecture.
• Document gaps in current architecture.
• Document and create an approach for addressing existing technical debt.
• Design canonical representations of key enterprise data with a vendor-neutral approach.
• Improve integration patterns for integrating SFDC Service, Marketing, and Sales clouds within the enterprise landscape, including Coinbase's internal custom services.
• Authentication and authorization designs and implementation patterns using SAML/OAuth2; Okta.
• Evaluate, improve and streamline application, data, and corporate security aspects of the SDLC.
• Integration platforms for back office and front office systems, both transactional and non-transactional (eg, Mulesoft, Kafka).
• Netsuite ERP and related Corporate Finance enterprise applications.
• Provide definition, oversight, coordination and development of systems application and architecture initiatives, including closely working with vendor software consultants and contractors focused on delivery of an integrated solution.
• Research, analyze, determine capabilities, and propose solution alternatives including architectural risks that address specific business needs.
• Understand and articulate business requirements, then develop high-level solutions architecture, timelines and costs for implementation.
• Develop key architectural and development artifacts including architectural overviews, high and low level technical designs, and interface specifications.
• Produce shared models, diagrams, and documents (including business requirements, use cases, or process models) to effectively rationalize options of business solution and its relationship to the application, data and infrastructure architecture.
• Evaluate deployment models including cloud and on-premise taking into consideration security, audit and compliance requirements.
• Working with the ERM team, develop test strategies including test approach, plans, performance and scalability requirements.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies as well enforcing best practices for master data management and integration.
• Lead efforts for new software selection including creation of standard build-vs-buy decision matrix, development of RFI/RFP, review and evaluation of commercial off the shelf (COTS) software products, lead Proof of Concepts, development of evaluation matrix through final recommendation.
• Proactively scan and evaluate relevant emerging technologies focused on driving standardization and reduction of complexity within the enterprise.
• Partner with key business stakeholders in the development of technology roadmaps, strategies and standards.

What We Look For In You (i.e., Job Requirements)

Architecture/Technical Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, computer science or related discipline (or equivalent work experience); masters or MBA preferred but not required.
• Extensive experience with the AWS cloud ecosystem, including in-depth knowledge of trade-offs inherent in specific AWS data patterns.
• Experience in a hyper-scale transaction environment, both in terms of volumes and transaction execution time.
• Experience designing and implementing resilient transaction architectures designed to maximize both performance and replayability.
• Experience integrating SFDC with a focus on maintaining key enterprise data entities (e.g., Customer, Account, Product) within canonical, on-prem, vendor-neutral repositories.
• Experience designing and implementing ODS (operational data store) and DW (data warehouse) solutions.
• Experience within a complex, evolving compliance/regulatory industry.
• Creating security-first architectures designed to enforce compliance governance as well as audit-oriented logging requirements.
• Minimum of ten (10) years work experience in an architecture (application, technical, systems, integration), technical consulting, process re-engineering or application delivery/technical engineering role.
• Broad and extensive technical knowledge of application delivery methods and familiarly with how portfolios of systems work together to create enterprise solutions.
• Experience with techniques including systems flows, data/business object modeling, use case and user interface prototyping.
• ERP package (Netsuite preferred), Collaboration, Content and Social tools experience needed.
• Understanding of the latest state-of-the-art in Martech architectures and enterprise solutions.
• Creation of architecture artifacts for inclusion in M&A playbooks.
• Outstanding communication skills including demonstrated ability to effectively engage, influence and communicate technical and business issues and solutions to all levels in the organization.
• At least one example of handling "on-hands-on-deck"/"swarming" situations to resolve production issues within an unforgiving transactional environment.
• Deep knowledge of agile Scrum and Scrumban-like delivery models.

Management Experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years managing experienced, senior individual contributors; preferably a team of Enterprise, Domain, Data and/or Solution Architects.
•  Attracting and recruiting top talent within a tight labor market.
• Managing OKRs, establishing supporting metrics.
• Designing and implementing organizational changes specific to an Enterprise Architecture team.
• Creating and maintaining a high-performing team with sustained high engagement within EAA and across the Coinbase enterprise.
• Handling escalations; communicating trade-offs; driving decisions to resolution.
• Evaluating team members; managing high-performers while growing their careers; managing out non-performing team members.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively across the spectrum of stakeholders, including senior business executives, business SMEs, peer EAA leadership, and technical delivery teams.

Preferred Experience:

• Passion for the crypto/blockchain/NFT industry and economy.
• Experience designing/improving performance of high-load customer-service platforms.
• Creating quantitatively based architecture risk-models (i.e., measuring technical debt and other trade-off decisions by risk factors).
• Knowledge of other agile and non-agile SDLC approaches.
• At least one architecture notation and documentation standard (e.g. TOGAF)
• Familiarity with JS/TS and related frameworks.
• Experience with SQL; Snowflake.
• Deep knowledge of SFDC architecture and customization approaches.
• Experience managing multi-org SFDC architecture.
• M&A integration, including transitional and long-term architectures.
• Experience with at least one systems-level programming language (Go preferred).
• Proficiency with Git, Confluence, Jira, LeanIX.

Notice for Colorado applicants as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20). Target annual salary for this role performed in Colorado, is $319,600 + target bonus + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k)).

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