Staff Enterprise Architect

The Enterprise Architecture team turns business objectives into technology decisions across Coinbase's business systems including custom-developed, third-party applications, and agentic automations, partnering with business functions and engineering teams to buy, build, and scale software applications with a focus on design patterns, technical debt, and security. This Staff Enterprise Architect will own key Enterprise Engineering (EE) initiatives such as Technical Debt, Application Portfolio Management, Integration Keys Mechanism, and contribute to the Architecture Forum.

• Provide leadership and expertise in the development, maintenance, and governance of enterprise architecture guidelines and design patterns to ensure the reliability and scalability of the application ecosystem.
• Develop and maintain technical roadmaps to guide the evolution of the application ecosystem from current to future states, aligning with strategic and business capability roadmaps.
• Drive application portfolio health programs focused on identifying, mitigating, and eliminating technical debt and security hardening where appropriate.
• Evaluate new applications and platforms to ensure alignment with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies, and standards from business, application, data, solution, and technology perspectives.
• Develop and maintain system diagrams that illustrate the relationship between business value, capabilities, and technology.
• Contribute to an Architecture Forum of architects and engineers, facilitating collaboration, debate, and education on acceptable design patterns and solutions.
• Lead the analysis and evaluation of leading and emerging technologies and market trends, assessing their impact and opportunities for the enterprise architecture, with a focus on digital capabilities and innovations to support business strategy.
• Work closely with solution architects to provide frameworks, guidelines, and best practices for implementing and configuring applications and database technologies.
• Contribute to large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, overseeing technical aspects from current state assessments through delivery and execution.

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