Enterprise Architect

Position: Enterprise Software Architect

**Mortgage, Lending, or Fintech Experience Preferred***

Location: Remote - hybrid if located within 30 miles from Santa Ana, CA or Austin, TX (4 days on-site)

Pay: starting at $165K+ depending on experience + plus benefits

*Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and technically strong Enterprise Architect to join our architecture team. This US based, fully remote role plays a pivotal part in enabling engineering teams across time zones and ensuring architectural consistency across platforms and products. This is more than just a technical position - this role requires a highly communicative, hands on architect who thrives on clarity, collaboration, and coaching. You will work directly with product, engineering, and infrastructure teams to create scalable and maintainable systems, provide thoughtful architectural direction, and be a key voice across strategic and enterprise wide technology decisions.

Disclaimer: Identity Verification checks are in place throughout the Candidate journey to prevent candidate fraud.  In-Person Interview Required

• Support engineering teams with architectural direction, design guidance, and decision making across time zones.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable systems using modern architectural principles such as domain driven design, event driven design, microservices, and service oriented patterns.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear diagrams, documentation, and written guidance for technical and non technical audiences.
• Partner with product managers, engineering leadership, and technical leads to align architecture with business strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Participate in design reviews, solution walkthroughs, architecture reviews, and mentoring across engineering teams.
• Create and maintain system diagrams, architecture documentation, standards, and reference materials.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and industry trends and incorporate new learnings into architectural strategy.
• Work with DevOps/SRE teams to strengthen observability, reliability, monitoring, and operational maturity.
• Oversee architectural design and integration patterns for internal platforms and external vendor systems.
• Influence without authority: drive adoption of standards, patterns, and decisions across multiple teams and leaders through persuasion, credibility, and results (not positional power).
• Community of Practice: actively participate in—and help facilitate—a Community of Practice with Solutions Architects to share patterns, publish reference designs, align on guardrails, and continuously improve delivery consistency.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in architecture or technical leadership.
• Deep expertise designing distributed systems, service oriented architectures, and cloud native applications.
• Hands on experience with:
• .NET Core (C#), React/Angular, Azure (App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, Event Grid, Monitoring
• Strong understanding of:
• Microservices, DDD/EDD, CQRS, and performance/scalability engineering
• Proven ability to influence without authority across product and engineering organizations.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to operate effectively across distributed teams and time zones.
• Demonstrated ability to produce architecture documentation and diagrams (e.g., UML, data flow) and to mentor diverse engineering teams.

Desired Skills:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect or Azure Developer Associate
• Experience in Mortgage, FinTech, or Financial Services
• Prior experience in high scale, production critical environments
• Experience integrating with vendor APIs or external platforms
• Experience working across globally distributed engineering teams

What You'll Need to Succeed:

• You are a proactive, high clarity communicator who keeps teams aligned without being collocated.
• You remove ambiguity, provide strong design direction, simplify decision points, and enable teams to deliver with confidence.
• You operate hands on when needed, but always with an enterprise, forward looking mindset.

• You are adaptive, curious, and motivated by the opportunity to influence architecture across an entire organization from a remote US role.
• You lead through influence, building consensus and momentum across peers and partner teams.
• You contribute to (and elevate) a Community of Practice with Solutions Architects to improve standards, patterns, and delivery outcomes.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  Must be able to lift up to ten pounds.  Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.  VISION:  See in the normal visual range with or without correction.  HEARING:  Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

EOE/M/F/D/V. Drug-free workplace.

Work Authorization:

Must be able to verify identity and employment eligibility to work in the U.S.

*Pay Transparency Disclosure

If based in New American Funding’s offices, this role has the annual base salary range stated below.   

Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 80% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

New American Funding offers competitive package of additional benefits, including health, dental & vision, retirement with company contribution, parental leave , mental health & wellness benefits, and generous PTO. New American Funding also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. New American Funding’s compensation and benefits are subject to change and may be modified in the future.

New American Funding recruiters may contact candidates through LinkedIn, phone, text message, or email. Official email communications will come from an address ending in @nafinc.com. We will only request sensitive personal information through our secure application and onboarding systems – not through email, social media, text message, or instant messaging. New American Funding will never request payment from candidates at any stage of the recruiting process.

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