Blockdaemon is hiring a

Web3 Enterprise Architect

Blockdaemon is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Architect to join our Platform Engineering team!

The Enterprise Architect (EA) will be responsible for working across the breadth of engineering and the business to create and maintain enterprise architecture. The Enterprise Architect will also participate in creating reference architectures and proof-of-concepts, as well as working as a resource to cross-functional squads. The Enterprise Architect will collaborate with the Product, Engineering, and Project Management to ensure that the overall Blockdaemon architecture is robust, consistent, secure, practical and performant.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with a team of talented engineers, product managers and business stakeholders to define and implement the processes for the definition, maintenance, and conformance management of a robust, dynamic Enterprise Architecture.
• Build and maintain key Enterprise Architecture deliverables, including shared models, diagrams and documents to effectively communicate among key stakeholders.
• Create security-first architectures designed to enforce compliance governance as well as audit-oriented logging requirements.
• Document and create an approach for addressing existing technical debt.
• Establish service-oriented architecture (SOA); oversee transformation from current-state to well-defined services as part of regular product and project work.
• Collaborate with the Data team to design canonical representations of key enterprise data, including HA, security and vendor-exposure aspects.
• Establish and maintain of information systems programs and contacts within business units to understand business activities and business drivers, business requirements, solutions strategies and alternatives.
• Create or improve existing integration patterns for use in the enterprise landscape.
• Contribute to authorization and authentication designs using SAML/OAuth2; Okta.
• Evaluate, improve and streamline application, data and security design aspects of the SDLC.
• Create integration patterns for inclusion of future back-office applications, including ERP, CRM, Martech and HCM.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to design service and asset management processes in support of ITSM and ISO/SOC2, etc.
• Drive creation of a process for evaluating introduction of new technologies to the enterprise landscape in terms of vendor analysis, build-vs-buy decisions, and business case justification.
• Collaboration with the engineering leadership team to align architecture with both business and engineering strategy.
• Architectural guidance in the resolutions of inter-program and inter-project issues.
• Ongoing research and assessment of new analysis approaches for potential use within the Enterprise.

Experience:

• You have at least 7 years or equivalent experience in backend software or infrastructure

• Extensive experience with the cloud, bare-metal and mixed ecosystems, including in-depth knowledge of trade-offs inherent in specific data patterns inherent to each environment.
• 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 repositories.
• Experience within a complex, evolving compliance/regulatory industry.
• Preferred experience in Fintech, Blockchain, Banking or Finance.
• Preferred experience in hyper-growth, dynamic, true-startup environment in addition to some larger company experience.
• Prior 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, Collaboration, Content and Social tools experience needed.
• Understanding of 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.

About Us:

We Know Nodes.

Blockdaemon is the leading blockchain node infrastructure platform. Supporting 30+ protocols, 70 out-of-the-box node types, and monitoring plug-ins for cloud and on-premises services, Blockdaemon is used by exchanges, custodians, enterprises, financial institutions and 10k+ developers to connect commercial partners to blockchains. Blockdaemon's mission is to simplify the process of deploying nodes and creating scalable enterprise blockchain solutions via APIs, BYOI, auto- decentralization and auto-healing of nodes.

We are rapidly growing our fully remote, decentralized team. We are made up of dedicated and passionate individuals who want to make an impact in this dynamic and emerging industry. We offer competitive salaries as well as employer contributions to health, dental, vision, life and disability insurances. At Blockdaemon, we understand that “life happens” and offer a flexible PTO policy and encourage employees to take time off when they need it.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

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