Chief Architect, Enterprise & Cloud Infrastructure

LendingClub; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 260,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation

Equity (long‑term awards)

Annual bonus

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Job summary

Happen Bank seeks a Chief Architect to define and lead the Bank's enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and infrastructure architecture. This hands‑on leadership role focuses on cloud, platform infrastructure, and reference architectures to enable secure, scalable engineering.

You will guide the Architecture Guild, mentor senior architects, and ensure architectural decisions meet security, regulatory, and delivery needs in a hybrid SF environment.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering or related tech roles.
• 5+ years in a principal/chief/head‑of‑architecture role within a complex org.
• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep hands‑on expertise in infrastructure architecture, including AWS, networking, identity, containers and orchestration, IaC, resilience, and DR.
• Proven ability to lead architects across organizational boundaries and influence without direct reports.
• Experience managing senior technical contributors.
• Strong data architecture, data modeling, integration patterns, and modern data platforms.
• Experience delivering tech in regulated financial services (OCC, FFIEC, BSA/AML or similar).
• Ability to establish enterprise architecture standards and balance rigor with delivery speed.
• Excellent technical communication and collaboration with Security, Risk, and Regulatory partners.
• Comfort with AI-assisted architectural design and governance and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise target‑state architecture aligned with business objectives.
• Lead the architecture review process with clear context, alternatives, and tradeoffs.
• Establish and maintain enterprise technology standards catalog and decision processes.
• Partner with Security, Risk, and Regulatory Relations on architecture considerations.
• Serve as principal infrastructure architect for cloud topology, network segmentation, compute platforms, resilience, DR, capacity, and cost.
• Develop reference architectures and design docs for Engineering teams to adopt.
• Lead architecture for major platform initiatives (e.g., data platform migration to Databricks).
• Lead the federated Architecture Guild and mentor architects across units.
• Drive architectural debt reduction and improve efficiency and sustainability of technology.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud & Platform Architecture

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Security & Regulatory

Databricks

Public Cloud (AWS)

Containers & Orchestration

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Equivalent education/experience

Tools

Databricks

Architecture tooling

Job description

Happen Bank seeks a Chief Architect to define and lead the Bank's enterprise architecture strategy, standards, and infrastructure architecture. This hands‑on leadership role focuses on cloud, platform infrastructure, and reference architectures to enable secure, scalable engineering.

You will guide the Architecture Guild, mentor senior architects, and ensure architectural decisions meet security, regulatory, and delivery needs in a hybrid SF environment.