Staff Enterprise Architect

At PitchBook, we are always looking forward. We continue to innovate, evolve, and invest in ourselves to bring out the best in everyone. We’re deeply collaborative and thrive on the excitement, energy, and fun that reverberates throughout the company. 

Our extensive learning programs and mentorship opportunities help us create a culture of curiosity that pushes us to always find new solutions and better ways of doing things. The combination of a rapidly evolving industry and our high ambitions means there’s going to be some ambiguity along the way, but we excel when we challenge ourselves. We’re willing to take risks, fail fast, and do it all over again in the pursuit of excellence.

If you have a good attitude and are willing to roll up your sleeves to get things done, PitchBook is the place for you. 

 

About the Role:

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other’s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth, and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us! 

As an Enterprise Architect within the PitchBook Engineering organization, you will be responsible for architecting the business workflows and integrations of different systems used across multiple enterprise business stream-aligned teams such as Sales, Finance, Marketing, Customer Success, Human Resources, and others. You will be essential in guiding other technical contributors to build exceptional enterprise solutions relied upon and used by hundreds of PitchBook internal users, delivering architecture that will drive PitchBook operational performance and efficiency. 

The team will rely on your broad and deep experience in establishing integrated workflows and comprehensive solutions involving 3rd party products and platforms such as Salesforce and Marketo. You will be operating within diverse business domains to shape principles and practices and capture just-in-time decisions based on trade-off analysis. With your strong analytical skills, you’ll be able to break down abstract and complex problems into smaller problems and apply Domain Driven Design approaches such as identifying bounded contexts and establishing a decomposition process. You will be expected to devise solutions based on limited information and precedent to find creative ways to tackle challenges. You must be able to interpret, assess, and resolve a wide range of issues and be able to select the right course of action. 

You will collaborate with external and internal stakeholders of diverse roles and backgrounds, who may have varying degrees of understanding of the domain. You may need to adapt your style of communication based on the audience you are interacting with and will be relied on to influence decisions to build optimal solutions to complex challenges. Additionally, as a technical expert in a broad set of domains, you will be expected to engage actively in promoting architecture guidelines, principles, and practices across our team(s), and be a driver for consistency and alignment for cross-cutting concerns using influence and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

 

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze and document the current architectural state of PitchBook enterprise systems and identify their respective domains, bounded contexts, and workflows 
• Analyze the level of existing automation and technical debt and identify new automation opportunities 
• Identify and apply system integration patterns establishing an integrated enterprise ecosystem that is efficient to operate and easy to support and evolve 
• Identify opportunities to evolve the technical ecosystem supporting Enterprise teams, including analysis of build vs. buy and new 3rd party systems and their technical, organizational, and commercial/business trade-offs supporting adoption decisions 
• Identify and ensure qualities and non-functional requirements of the enterprise workflows within specific systems and across multiple integrated systems 
• Document architecture evolutions (current state, future state, phasing) across a variety of business domains, communicate architecture, and elaborate with teams, including the notion of domains, bounded context, and ownership 
• Provide technical guidance and perform architectural reviews with team members 
• Design and deliver end-to-end initiatives with little to no guidance 
• Define and participate in processes that improve products using return on experience and root cause analysis of incidents 
• Support the vision and values of the company through role modeling and encouraging desired behaviors 
• Participate in various company initiatives and projects as requested 

 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
• 12+ years of experience architecting, integrating, and automating large-scale software systems, including Engineering roles in the context of Enterprise Organization and systems 
• 8+ years coding and delivering software as an engineer with languages such as Python and Java 
• 2+ years of experience developing microservices 
• Strong experience in Enterprise Architecture, including systems in sales and CRM systems (Salesforce), marketing automation systems (Marketo), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Content Management Systems (CMS), Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems, Billing and Payment systems, and more 
• Experience in integrating systems with data warehouse, data platform, and data lake technologies (e.g. Snowflake, Redshift) 
• Experience in Enterprise Architecture frameworks and related methodologies (Open Group TOGAF, SAFe, MEGA, UML/4+1, ATAM) 
• Experience in Enterprise Integration Automation platforms (Workato, Flowgear, Boomi, Prismatic) 
• Experienced with SaaS & Web technologies, standards, and architecture styles (e.g., JSON, REST) 
• Experienced with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
• Ability to handle an enterprise project through the entire software integration lifecycle, end to end 
• Demonstrate ability to lead and/or provide guidance to junior peers across multiple teams 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem-solving ability 
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including in-depth knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel with the ability to pick up new systems and software easily 

 

Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:

Physical Health            

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Additional medical wellness incentives 
• STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance

 

Emotional Health 

• Paid sabbatical program after four years
• Paid family and paternity leave 
• Annual educational stipend
• Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
• CFA exam stipend 
• Robust training programs on industry and soft skills 
• Employee assistance program
• Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days 

 

Social Health 

• Matching gifts program
• Employee resource groups
• Subsidized emergency childcare  
• Dependent Care FSA
• Company-wide events
• Employee referral bonus program  
• Quarterly team building events

 

Financial Health 

• 401k match
• Shared ownership employee stock program 
• Monthly transportation stipend  

 

*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.

 

Compensation

• Annual base salary: $215,000-$235,000
• Target annual bonus percentage: 15%

 

*Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location. 

 

Working Conditions:

We believe our business and our culture are strongest when we work together in person. We also know that it’s helpful to have some flexibility to work remotely. Most roles work in the office 3+ days/week, and some are expected to work in the office 4-5 days/week. The current expectation for this role is that you are working in the office 4+ days/week and that you are in the office full-time during the training period, for which the length varies by role. During an initial phone screen, the team will discuss expectations for this specific position.

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.

 

Life At PB:

We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It’s our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we’ve heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.

 

We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.

 

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