Staff Enterprise Architect

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software.

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An overview of this role

As a Staff Enterprise Architect, you will design and evolve how GitLab's internal systems are configured, integrate, perform and scale to support a rapidly growing business. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Architecture and AI Intelligent Automation, you will apply all four architecture lenses (business, application, data, and technology) to the systems in your scope, treating AI as a standing consideration inside each rather than a separate workstream.

Enterprise-wide strategy, portfolio direction, and standards ownership sit with the Director. Your job is depth: turning that direction into designs detailed enough to build, and being the person trusted with the hardest technical problems in the enterprise. You will not manage people. You will lead through architecture, as the partner to our Applications engineering teams and to Integration, RPA, and Intelligent Automation, and as a reviewer on the Architecture Review Board, where the aim is to make architecture an enabler rather than a gate.

What you'll do

Business architecture

• In collaboration with product management and process owners, map the current-state processes and capabilities supported by the systems in your scope, tying each capability to its supporting systems, owners, and systems of record, and identify and resolve where those systems create friction, manual handoffs, or duplicated work, including handoffs an AI agent could remove entirely.

• Architect end-to-end processes that span front-office and back-office systems, including new product introduction, CPQ and quote-to-cash, billing and revenue recognition, renewals, and record-to-report, together with the customer service processes that run alongside them, including case and escalation management, entitlements, and service level commitments, rather than optimizing any one system in isolation.

• Redesign workflows before automating them, so we aren't encoding broken processes into new tooling. For each step, decide what an AI agent should handle, what deterministic automation should handle, and what stays with a person.

Application architecture

• In collaboration with the Applications engineering teams, serve as their embedded architect, producing high level designs and patterns for changes to Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora, Zendesk, and other core platforms. Favor configuration

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve how GitLab's internal systems are configured, integrate, perform, and scale
• Apply all four architecture lenses (business, application, data, and technology) treating AI as a standing consideration
• Turn enterprise-wide strategy and direction into detailed designs to build and solve hard technical problems
• Lead through architecture as a partner to Applications engineering teams, Integration, RPA, and Intelligent Automation
• Serve as a reviewer on the Architecture Review Board
• In collaboration with product management and process owners, map current-state processes and capabilities, identify and resolve friction, manual handoffs, or duplicated work
• Architect end-to-end processes spanning front-office and back-office systems (including new product introduction, CPQ, quote-to-cash, billing, revenue recognition, renewals, record-to-report, and customer service processes)
• Redesign workflows before automating them, deciding what an AI agent, deterministic automation, or person should handle
• Serve as an embedded architect in collaboration with Applications engineering teams, producing high level designs and patterns for changes to Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora, Zendesk, and other core platforms