Enterprise Architect, Instabase
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Go
Terraform
C++
Azure
Expert level
London
Automation platform for unstructured data
Be an early applicant
Automation platform for unstructured data
201-500 employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsCloud Computing
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
AWS
Kubernetes
GCP
Python
Go
Terraform
C++
Azure
Expert level
London
201-500 employees
B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseInternal toolsCloud Computing
Company mission
To build tools that will help people and organizations solve important problems, make discoveries, and create new breakthroughs.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or infrastructure engineering in a SaaS, cloud-native, or enterprise software company
- Deep technical fluency with AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as enterprise Kubernetes environments (on-premises and hybrid)
- Strong background in infrastructure-as-code tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Bicep/ARM
- Experienced in building or advising on secure, scalable architectures that include authentication, disaster recovery, asynchronous processing, and configuration management
- Expert at understanding enterprise customer requirements and translating them into technical specifications and architectural guidance
- Hands-on coding ability in Python, Go, or C++ to support automation and architectural prototypes
- Skilled in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) methodologies and toolchains
- Strong communicator, capable of translating complex technical concepts for both technical and business stakeholders
- Self-driven and comfortable working independently across a geographically distributed team
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Sales Engineering, Engineering, Product, and Customer Success
- Familiarity with enterprise compliance requirements, particularly in regulated industries such as Financial Services
- Subject matter expertise in at least one enterprise architecture focus area (Systems Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or Client Enterprise Architecture)
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture best practices across cloud platforms, systems integration, and client deployment patterns
- Ability to debug and diagnose complex issues in enterprise deployments
- Experience with regulated industries, particularly Financial Services compliance requirements
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality enterprise solutions that reduce client friction
- Strong project management skills with the ability to complete projects of large scope spanning pre-sales through post-sales
What the job involves
- Our Enterprise Architect team works as trusted technical advisors within Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) to ensure Instabase can successfully deploy and scale in enterprise environments
- As a Senior Enterprise Architect, you'll be the technical bridge between our product development teams and the complex enterprise requirements of our customers, with a primary focus on building enterprise-ready solutions and patterns
- You'll work collaboratively across EPD, GTM, Customer Success, and Services teams to define scalable, secure, and repeatable architecture practices that reduce client friction and accelerate time-to-value
- This role requires deep technical expertise combined with the ability to translate enterprise customer needs into actionable product and engineering requirements
- Collaborate with EPD teams to identify, plan, and implement proofs of concept and enterprise patterns that ensure Instabase can deploy with minimal friction across our client base
- Partner with Product and Engineering to represent enterprise customer needs and reduce architectural friction points across the platform
- Maintain enterprise architecture requirements in partnership with product teams, focusing on reducing deployment complexity and improving customer success
- Lead technical design reviews to ensure enterprise solutions meet scalability, security, and compliance requirements
- Build and maintain documentation that enables client-support teams including Customer Engineering, GTM, and Customer Success
- Support GTM teams by providing technical expertise to convert technical objections into solutions, offering feedback to reduce friction and maximize client time-to-value
- Assist in questionnaires concerning architecture focus areas and support Customer Success to enable efficient client platform deployments and successful integrations
- Participate in RFP responses and client architecture reviews, particularly for enterprise and regulated industry requirements
- Mentor engineers and other team members on enterprise patterns and provide guidance to junior architects and customer-facing teams
- Support paid proofs-of-value with architectural guardrails and criteria for successful self-managed deployments
- Define and enforce scalable, secure patterns for deploying compute, storage, and messaging across AWS, Azure, GCP, and enterprise Kubernetes environments
- Lead enterprise architecture reviews to ensure solutions meet customer requirements around authentication, authorization, disaster recovery, and compliance
- Develop reference architectures for repeatability and reuse across global teams, with particular attention to Financial Services and other regulated industries
- Stay current with enterprise technology developments and cloud architecture best practices
- Own complex client deployments and deliver enterprise solutions end-to-end to production
- Subject matter expertise in at least one enterprise architecture focus area (Systems Architecture, Cloud Architecture, or Client Enterprise Architecture)
- Deep understanding of enterprise architecture best practices across cloud platforms, systems integration, and client deployment patterns
- Ability to debug and diagnose complex issues in enterprise deployments
- Experience with regulated industries, particularly Financial Services compliance requirements
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality enterprise solutions that reduce client friction
- Strong project management skills with the ability to complete projects of large scope spanning pre-sales through post-sales
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Instabase is a platform for businesses to build customisable apps for automating different parts of their business.
For example, a bank can quickly build an app that can automatically verify customer income in a fraction of a second by combing through documents such as camera pictures or scans of payslips, tax documents, bank statements, and other similar documents submitted by the customer.
The platform comes equipped with the tools for reading documents, data extraction and classification, natural language processing, and optical character recognition. It's designed to enable creators, developers, and organizations to quickly build complex business applications based on their needs.
Instabase also offers an app store, a growing marketplace of pre-packaged business apps for different industries, such as Income Verification, Adverse Media Analysis, Identity Verification, Trade Finance, Contract Analysis, and Financial Spreading.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$100m
SERIES D
Jun 2023
$45m
SERIES C
Total funding: $277.1m
Company benefits
- We marry the benefits of moving fast at a scaling startup with the stability of larger corporations. Instabase pays 100% of top tier employee medical, dental, vision plans and takes care of dependents. Instabase also offers an FSA company match
- Instabase believes in investing in you and your future by providing a company 401(k) match and financial planning resources
- Every Instabaser is eligible for paid time off to care for their newborn or adopted child. We’ve also teamed up with Carrot Fertility to help support every Instabaser on their family forming journey
- At Instabase, we believe in providing employees the ability to rest, reflect, and recharge through unlimited paid time off and holidays
- Instabase believes in providing access to resources that allow you to grow in your role and career
- From home office setups to meal and Wi-Fi reimbursements, Instabase provides perks and resources that help you do your best work
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Anant Bhardwaj
(CEO)Previously worked in research for 3 years at MIT and also interned at Google.
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