Platform Architect - Onboarding Applications

Overview

Job Summary:

The Platform Architect is a pivotal leadership role responsible for the end‑to‑end, enterprise‑wide architecture for the Onboarding suite of applications—including Salesforce, Bullhorn, DocuSign, and CLM. This role brings together business strategy, product vision, and technology direction to deliver cohesive, scalable user experiences across the onboarding lifecycle. Close coordination with the Connected Platform Architects is required to ensure architectural alignment across systems with shared onboarding dependencies.

This role requires significant experience defining and implementing enterprise grade, global-scale architectures for critical business systems and is a recognized strategic leader within the organization responsible for orchestrating a complex multi-technology front office ecosystem. The Platform Architect thrives in a fast-paced, agile, product-driven environment, leading a team of senior-level Domain Architects to define platform strategy, build architectural runway, and guide Product, Operating Company, and IS stakeholders toward business-critical outcomes. The right candidate will display a mastery in aligning global business strategies with next-generation technologies, while providing executive-level oversight and mentorship to senior resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead & Mentor: Manage, lead, and influence senior-level Domain Architects and stakeholders across the business systems supporting the Onboarding platform.
• Collaborate & Govern: Partner closely with the Connected Platform Architects to ensure cohesive architecture across onboarding, sales, and recruiting processes.
• Strategy & Roadmap: Establish platform strategy and architectural direction for the Onboarding ecosystem, including Salesforce, Bullhorn, DocuSign, CLM, and related services.
• Strategic Platform Solutions: Define declarative-first and integration-first solutions across the onboarding suite, ensuring scalable, reliable integrations across Salesforce, Bullhorn, CLM, DocuSign, and downstream enterprise systems.
• Standards & Governance: Define and enforce cross-domain frameworks, integration patterns, platform standards, and architectural principles. Ensure ARB review and approval where required, especially for integrations with Connected applications.
• Architecture Stewardship: Maintain Reference Architecture documentation (Conceptual, Logical, Data, Integration) for the Onboarding ecosystem, ensuring shared dependencies are accurately represented in LeanIX.
• Innovation & Experimentation: Champion innovation around AI, workflow automation, and next-generation onboarding capabilities. Explore technologies that improve compliance, contracting, onboarding speed, and data quality across interconnected systems.
• Agile Enablement: Provide consultative guidance, high-level estimation, and architectural support for agile planning and delivery.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure onboarding platform solutions meet all compliance, regulatory, and enterprise security standards, especially for candidate data, contracts, and identity-sensitive information.
• Solution Oversight: Document As‑Is and To‑Be architectures; present solution options and benefits to Product, Program, and IS stakeholders.
• Enterprise Alignment: Understand and incorporate enterprise roadmap dependencies, especially those involving onboarding integrations with Salesforce, recruiting workflows, and Connected systems.
• Technical Debt & Risk: Define standards to manage technical debt, reduce risk, and ensure availability, scalability, and resilience across onboarding applications.
• Foresight & Adaptability: Anticipate technical and business changes requiring roadmap or architecture adjustments, raising visibility to leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process efficiencies and translate them into platform technology investments. 

Required in-office presence at least 4 days per week

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Define platform standards, strategies, and roadmaps (0–24 months) in collaboration with Enterprise Architecture.
• Translate business strategy into an integrated architectural vision for Salesforce and supporting platforms.
• Lead governance processes, architecture reviews, and cross-domain decision-making.
• Ensure Onboarding solutions meet operational requirements for security, scalability, performance, rel