Remote-First Enterprise Systems Architect — AI & Cloud

phData; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy with teams across the United States, Latin America, and India, seeks a Business Systems Architect to design and evolve enterprise platform architectures that scale securely and efficiently.

You will partner with IT and business teams to drive modernization, AI enablement, automation, and cloud transformations, while guiding cross-functional initiatives from discovery through deployment and validation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in systems, application, or enterprise architecture.
• Experience designing and delivering enterprise technology solutions.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure, system design, and security principles.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams and evaluate technical solutions.
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks or security/compliance standards.
• Exposure to vendor selection or mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Convert ambiguous stakeholder needs into prioritized projects with measurable success criteria.
• Own requirements intake, discovery, process mapping, impact analysis, and scoping for cross-functional business systems initiatives.
• Finalize solution designs and coordinate end-to-end technical implementation, including test planning, end-user UAT, defect resolution, deployment, post-deployment validation, and historical data reconciliation.
• Own ongoing data quality, including establishing monitoring, cleansing, validation, migration/backloading, and reconciliation as gaps are identified or data models evolve.
• Translate business and operational requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Define integration approaches across various SaaS and cloud platforms.
• Support AI and automation initiatives through architecture guidance and implementation support.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud/hybrid environments

API & SaaS integration design

Security governance

Stakeholder communication

Mentorship

Tools

Salesforce

Certinia

Rippling

Greenhouse

Job description

phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy with teams across the United States, Latin America, and India, seeks a Business Systems Architect to design and evolve enterprise platform architectures that scale securely and efficiently.

You will partner with IT and business teams to drive modernization, AI enablement, automation, and cloud transformations, while guiding cross-functional initiatives from discovery through deployment and validation.