Corporate Enterprise Architect

It's a new day with a new opportunity at 8am! 

About the role:

We are seeking a highly technical and strategically minded Enterprise Architect to lead the advancement of 8am’s integrated systems architecture. This role focuses on strengthening our corporate IT foundation, optimizing endpoint management, enhancing SaaS integrations, and enabling secure expansion into AI-driven capabilities.

The Enterprise Architect will serve as the key technical bridge between IT operations, corporate security, and business systems teams—driving cohesive architecture, system interoperability, and future-proof designs. This individual will report to the Senior Director of IT and collaborate closely with the Sr. VP of Security to ensure aligned but non-overlapping responsibilities. The Enterprise Architect’s mandate is to design, implement, and govern technology ecosystems that are secure, scalable, and harmonized across all business functions.

About us:

At 8am, our vision is to power a world where professionals thrive. We start every day on a mission to empower professionals with the most trusted, innovative technology to deliver world-class outcomes for their clients and exceptional financial results for their business. They count on our purpose-built solutions to simplify operations, ensure compliance, and fuel profitable growth, so they can focus on their clients and do more of the work that matters.

Founded in 2005, 8am™ (formerly AffiniPay) is the professional business platform built to help legal, accounting, and other client-focused professionals run stronger, more profitable businesses. Today, more than 250,000 professionals across the U.S. trust 8am to help them work smarter, serve clients better, and unlock their full potential. We have been recognized as one of Inc 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 13 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!

What you'll do:

Enterprise Systems Architecture & Design

• Develop and maintain a holistic enterprise architecture blueprint that defines the relationships among business systems, SaaS platforms, endpoints, and integrations.
• Evaluate and implement architectural patterns that support interoperability, workflow automation, and security by design.
• Conduct architectural reviews and provide guidance on system scalability, resiliency, and data integrity.

Corporate Systems & Endpoint Management

• Oversee endpoint lifecycle management (Windows, macOS, mobile, and virtual endpoints) with a focus on automation, zero-trust enforcement, and MDM/EDR integration.
• Design strategies for patch management, software deployment, and asset compliance across the enterprise.
• Partner with IT Operations to standardize configurations and ensure alignment with corporate security baselines

SaaS & Integrations Governance

• Establish architectural frameworks for managing and integrating 3rd-party SaaS applications (Okta, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Zoom, etc.).
• Define policies for secure onboarding/offboarding, identity management, and data flow between SaaS platforms.
• Drive the development of API-based workflows to reduce manual work and improve data consistency across systems.

AI Expansion Enablement

• Partner with internal product and data teams to evaluate and safely implement enterprise AI integrations (e.g., LLM-based automation, data enrichment tools, or security AI analytics).
• Define architectural and compliance requirements for AI use within corporate and customer-facing systems.
• Support proof-of-concept builds that explore responsible automation and productivity enhancement.

Operational Systems Support & Optimization

• Collaborate with the IT Helpdesk and Infrastructure teams to improve workflows, automate request handling, and standardize escalation paths.
• Ensure that operational systems (ticketing, asset tracking, onboarding tools, etc.) are architected for growth, resilience, and integration.
• Conduct periodic reviews to assess system health, technical debt, and process improvement opportunities.

Security Architecture Collaboration

• Work in close partnership with the Sr. VP of Security to align system architecture with corporate security strategy.
• Focus on architectural enablement and governance, leaving ownership of incident response and threat management to the security organization.
• Participate in security design reviews for major initiatives and ensure that risk considerations are incorporated early in solution planning.<