Senior Enterprise Software Architect

Credit Acceptance Corporation; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 279,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(K) match

Adoption assistance

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Credit Acceptance Corporation is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and own the enterprise‑scale architecture across originations, servicing, marketplace, data, and AI. You will establish an integrated, auditable agent foundation and enforce least‑privilege, observability, and cost controls across all teams and external partners.

You will drive the migration off on‑prem infrastructure to AWS for transactional workloads and Databricks for analytics, while guiding real‑time decisioning

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience or comparable depth of experience.
• Track record of setting and delivering multi‑year technical strategy at enterprise scale, as an individual contributor rather than through a reporting line.
• Experience delivering in a regulated industry, or ability to work inside audit, security, and compliance constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise-grade architecture across originations, servicing, marketplace, data, and AI; publish end-state architecture with tradeoffs.
• Lead enterprise agent architecture and governance for responsible autonomous systems and outcomes.
• Orchestrate migration off on-prem to AWS for transactional workloads and Databricks for analytics.
• Shape data platform architecture for real-time ingestion, streaming, and warehousing; clarify ownership of data models.
• Design and enforce a usable, auditable inference and decisioning stack with safety and compliance.
• Drive two-week release capability and a hands-on leadership style across engineering teams.

Skills

Distributed Systems Mastery

Enterprise Problem-Solving

Strategic Independence

Visionary Leadership

Customer and Market Insight

Technical Writing

Executive Communication

Talent Development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Job description

Credit Acceptance Corporation is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and own the enterprise‑scale architecture across originations, servicing, marketplace, data, and AI. You will establish an integrated, auditable agent foundation and enforce least‑privilege, observability, and cost controls across all teams and external partners.

You will drive the migration off on‑prem infrastructure to AWS for transactional workloads and Databricks for analytics, while guiding real‑time decisioning