IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and Governance

Responsibilities

• Own the target architecture for enterprise software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, and agent-enabled business systems across Corporate IT.
• Drive deprecation and consolidation targets for enterprise software.
• Build lightweight governance patterns that guide teams before software and integration decisions become difficult to change.
• Create architecture standards for identity, access, data movement, API usage, admin rights, auditability, observability, and vendor integration.
• Partner with Security on SSO, SCIM, MFA, privileged access, non-human identities, secrets, token storage, data residency, encryption, retention, and incident-response readiness.
• Partner with Procurement and Finance on renewals, rationalization, enterprise agreements, and build-versus-buy decisions.
• Evaluate agentic business workflows and translate them into scalable enterprise system patterns.
• Review SaaS and internally built tools for overlap, risk, integration quality, ownership, lifecycle, supportability, and long-term fit.
• Develop reusable architecture blueprints for intake, workflow, approvals, knowledge management, customer and partner 360, data integration, reporting, content management, learning, surveys, and collaboration.
• Help define where GPT- or agent-built solutions should replace or enable point SaaS tools.
• Create decision records and architecture artifacts for business leaders, engineers, security reviewers, and procurement partners.
• Improve software catalog maturity by connecting tool inventory with ownership, integration paths, data classification, access models, renewals, risk posture, and support models.

Core Architecture Domains

• SaaS governance and software catalog maturity
• Enterprise integration architecture, including APIs, event flows, middleware, and system-of-record boundaries
• Identity, access, and administrator model design
• SaaS data architecture across customer, supplier, employee, partner, product, and consumption models
• Agentic workflow architecture and GPT-built replacement patterns
• Vendor architecture reviews and enterprise agreement leverage
• Security, compliance, ITGC, audit evidence, and operational readiness
• Support model design, ownership, SLAs, escalation paths, and lifecycle management

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business systems architecture, IT architecture, SaaS governance, integration architecture, or a related technical leadership role.
• Strong understanding of SaaS operating models, software lifecycle management, software asset management, and vendor/platform governance.
• Experience designing integrations across systems and with large-scale SaaS platforms such as CRM, ERP, and marketplace platforms.
• Practical knowledge of identity and access patterns, including SSO, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, privileged administrator models, service accounts, OAuth applications, and token governance.
• Ability to evaluate software across business value, architecture fit, security posture, data exposure, cost, supportability, user experience, and vendor strategy.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, build structure where little exists, and influence senior stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Ability to write architecture decision records, governance standards, system diagrams, business cases, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Strong partnership skills and the ability to help teams move faster while improving decision quality.
• Curiosity about AI-native enterprise architecture and how GPT, Codex, and agentic workflows can replace or enable traditional SaaS patterns.

Preferred Experience

• Scaling IT or business systems from startup-stage tooling into mature enterprise architecture.
• Software rationalization, SaaS enablement and deprecation, vendor consolidation, or enterprise license optimization.
• Architecting systems in a high-growth environment.
• Governance for internally developed tools, low-code/no-code platforms, agents, or employee-built automation.
• Cross-functional risk and control programs with Security, GRC, Legal, Procurement, and Finance.