Step Up For Students empowers families to pursue and engage in the most appropriate learning options for their children. We unite communities to provide scholarships that open doors to a stronger future. Our culture is rooted in two core values: Everyone is an asset Every event is an improvement opportunity Step Up For Students (SUFS) is a mission-driven nonprofit that operates with the speed, innovation, and ambition of a high-growth fintech company.
Enterprise Architect
Location
United States
Posted
22 hours ago
Salary
$145K - $150K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Enterprise Architect
Step Up For Students
Role Description Do you have a passion for children and education? Would you like to positively impact families in need of help? We want to speak with you! The Enterprise Architect is a strategic, hands-on technology leader responsible for driving enterprise-wide architectural excellence and accelerating modernization across the organization. Serving as a cross-domain authority, this role complements and enhances the work of specialist architects in Cloud Infrastructure, Data, Solutions, and Business Architecture, ensuring alignment across technology domains and the delivery of cohesive, scalable enterprise solutions. A primary focus of the role is enterprise modernization, driving the adoption of cloud-native, composable, and platform-oriented architectures that enhance scalability, resilience, extensibility, and operational efficiency. The Enterprise Architect plays a key role in architectural governance, technology strategy, and solution assurance, ensuring that investments align with business objectives and industry best practices. - Supporting the Infrastructure Architect, design and evolve Azure infrastructure across our footprint (Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Entra ID, Power BI, and emerging AKS), emphasizing scalability, resilience, cost, IaC, and security. - Champion cloud-native, composable design — event-driven and API-first patterns, containerization/orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code — and produce reference architectures for integration, messaging, identity, observability, and environment topology. - Support data governance, lineage, and master data management practices as the data lakehouse foundation mature. - Partner with the Data Architect and data delivery team to stand up the foundational data lakehouse on Microsoft Fabric/Databricks/Snowflake, contributing patterns for ingestion, storage, modeling, and BI/analytics enablement (Power BI). - Apply modern integration patterns (APIs, event-driven services, microservices) where they advance the composable target state and support the Solution Architect with cross-domain designs, POCs, Data Contracts, and AI-assisted documentation. - Curate and clarify business and technical requirements, model business/system processes (e.g., BPMN), contribute to capability mapping, and facilitate Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions when needed. - Contribute, as a peer, to cross-domain architecture governance — shared standards, patterns, and guardrails — and act as a subject-matter expert helping delivery teams (employees and contractors) correctly apply established designs. - Evaluate and enable AI capabilities, including agentic AI and AI-assisted development, favoring enterprise-governed, self-hosted platforms. - Provide hands-on design and prototyping (POCs, infrastructure-as-code, reference implementations), perform SWOT/trade-off analyses, and partner with vendors to evaluate and integrate capabilities; sustained production feature development is not the primary expectation. - Design solutions that protect sensitive family, student, and financial data and meet security and compliance requirements, and articulate complex concepts clearly to technical and business audiences. Qualifications - Demonstrated success and a proven track record in professional/life experience in specific job functions, projects, or industries. Military service can substitute for professional experience and/or formal education requirements. - 12+ years in technology roles with depth in at least two architecture domains (cloud infrastructure, data, solution/integration, or business/process) and a record of delivering scalable, production-grade solutions; 5+ years in a lead or senior architectural role influencing design across teams through expertise rather than authority. - Hands-on Azure architecture experience across services such as Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus, SQL Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Entra ID, and Power BI (AKS a plus). - Working knowledge of data architecture (modeling, pipelines, lakehouse/warehouse) and cloud-native, composable patterns (API-first, event-driven, microservices, infrastructure-as-code). - Experience curating requirements and modeling business/system processes (e.g., BPMN) and facilitating cross-functional design sessions. Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related technical field, or 10 years of equivalent experience; military service may substitute for experience and/or education. - TOGAF, ITIL, or equivalent architecture certifications, plus Azure certifications such as AZ-305 and a data certification (e.g., DP-600 or DP-203). - Proficiency in AI enablement, agentic AI, or AI-assisted coding — preferably on an enterprise governed, self-hosted platform such as Azure AI Foundry. - Breadth across multiple architecture disciplines and experience modernizing legacy solutions toward composable, cloud-native architectures. Benefits - Enjoy medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus HSA, FSA, and Lifestyle Spending Accounts. - Competitive 401(k) with company match to help you plan for the future. - Remote work options and unique time-off programs—including 14 paid holidays, Care and Parental Leave, and our Flexible Leave policy. - From mentorship programs to management training and professional development opportunities, we invest in your career journey every step of the way. - Our dedicated coaching team is here to help you succeed, and employee-led committees give you a voice in shaping our workplace. Interview Process - Veriff Identity Verification - Recruiter Video Interview - Video Interview with Chief Information Officer - Video Interview with Director, IT Operations & Infrastructure
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