Enterprise Architect

Socket.dev; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market competitive salary

Stock options

12 paid holidays

Flexible PTO

401K with ezCater match

Health/dental/FSAs

Long-term disability insurance

Mental health resources

Remote-hybrid in Boston

Job summary

ezCater is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to lead and govern the transformation of our marketplace platform. You will chair the Architecture Board, own the decision register, and define the target-state architecture that unites legacy and new platforms.

You will work hands-on to review designs, defend critical decisions, and guide senior engineers, while influencing executives on architectural strategy. This role offers remote-hybrid work from Boston with strong autonomy and impact.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software engineering with accountable platform transformation experience.
• Defended decisions on event-driven architecture, service decomposition, data/identity modeling, and build-versus-buy.
• Wrote Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), RFCs and assessments; communicate clearly to teams.
• Hands-on enough to read a design or diff and earn respect of Principal engineers; able to say no when needed.
• Influence-driven leadership with architecture authority established in prior organizations.

Responsibilities

• Chair Architecture Board and own the decision register.
• Run the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) gate before build.
• Hold standing architecture authority over data, identity, events, and core services; define target-state architecture.
• Pressure-test designs with senior engineers and present decisions to executive leadership.

Skills

ADR writing

Architecture decisions

Event-driven

Data modeling

Identity modeling

Build-vs-buy

Job description

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

ezCater is re-platforming its marketplace on Nova, a composable platform built from domain capabilities, while the existing business continues to grow and deliver. The architectural decisions made over the next two years will shape the company for the next ten. This role exists to make sure those decisions get made well, on time, and stick.

The Enterprise Architect is our most senior individual contributor in technology, sitting above Principal on our ladder and reporting directly to the Chief Product and Technology Officer. It carries real decision authority, not advisory reach: you chair the Architecture Board, own the architecture decision process, and hold standing authority over our most consequential workstreams.

What you'll do:

• You will chair the Architecture Board and own its decision register: every open architecture decision has an owner and a date, and a decision past its date is treated as a program risk.
• You will run the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) gate that workstreams pass through before build.
• You will hold standing architecture authority over our foundational platform programs spanning data, identity, events, and core services, and you will set the target-state architecture that connects the legacy platform, the new platform, and the migration path between them.
• You will pressure-test designs with senior engineers across the org, raise the quality of technical decision-making broadly, and represent architecture directly to executive leadership.

What you have:

• You have 15+ years in software engineering with experience as the accountable architect for a platform transformation or re-platforming at scale, ideally in marketplace, commerce, or transactional systems.
• You have made and defended consequential decisions on event-driven architecture, service decomposition, data and identity modeling, and build-versus-buy, and you can show which ones you got wrong and what you did about it.
• You write clearly: your Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), RFCs, and assessments are artifacts people align around.
• You are hands‑on enough to read a design or a diff and earn the respect of Principal engineers, and senior enough to say no to a VP with a deadline.
• You operate through influence and decision rights rather than headcount, and you have done it before in an organization where architecture authority had to be established, not inherited.

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What you'll Get from Us:

You'll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You'll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

You'll get all this:

• Market competitive salary
• stock options that you'll help make worth a lot
• 12 paid holidays
• flexible PTO
• 401K with ezCater match
• health/dental/FSA
• long-term disability insurance
• mental health and family planning resources
• remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office
• a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• wicked awesome co-workers
• employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you're in our office
• knowing that you helped transform the food for work space

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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