Responsibilities

Workato is seeking an experienced, strategic, and innovative Business Technology Enterprise Architect to lead in the transformation of our enterprise Business Technology platforms, products, and services. This individual will act as a trusted technical partner to the Business Technology leadership team.

The Business Technology team is accountable for envisioning a business technology strategy that considers target-state architectures, process improvements, technology strategy, and the fiscal year investments needed to achieve Workato’s goals.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Take the lead in translating Workato’s business goals into architectural designs; apply critical and creative thinking/approaches to technology strategies that further business objectives while keeping in mind performance, reliability, scalability, usability, security, flexibility, and cost

• Extend existing architecture standards

• Assess the state of Enterprise Architecture maturity and define opportunities for progress

• Push the organization forward towards innovations that are embraced across multiple domains; actively learns from the broader industry and brings insights back to the organization

• Collaborate with Business Technology Strategic Planning to influence investment roadmaps

• Consider the use of Workato’s products in our architecture; work with Architects at Workato on product feedback; share our approach externally with customers

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, architecture framework 

• Combined 8 years of experience in several of the following areas: software design and development; architecting of modern heavily utilized, highly available applications

• Preferred experience in the Go-To-Market (sales/marketing/customer support, etc) domain

• Broad and technical experience; Is an expert in multiple technical topics or business domains (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Customer Experience, etc.) technology and architecture; experience leading large-scale transformation projects and implementations

• Deep experience in complex system design within companies with different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging, and hybrid)

• Strong understanding and experience with implementing modern application solutions by executing programs at scale using Agile methodologies

• Experience with cloud-first architectures (SaaS, PaaS, iPaaS), intelligent automations, and modern integration architectures

• Knowledge of existing, new, and emerging technologies and the ability to apply them to new business designs and business models

• Broad knowledge and experience in architecture domains, including business, application, data, infrastructure, and security architecture

• System and data flow knowledge; ability to learn and adapt to new product flows and software technologies

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and the ability to build original concepts and hypotheses for a variety of projects

• Strong end-to-end technical understanding of GTM processes, including but not limited to Salesforce CPQ

• Excellent communication skills that translate business problems into technical solutions

• Ability to switch anytime from being a high-level strategy person to an “in the weeds” technical person

• High level of energy and a desire to thrive in a fast-paced organization; ability to balance multiple projects under pressure

For California applicants, the pay for this role begins at $140,000 plus variable, benefits, perks and equity.