Lead Enterprise Applications Architect

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The Lead Enterprise Applications Architect will define the architecture, integration strategies, and automation frameworks that align with business objectives. This role will collaborate closely with developers, business leaders, and cross-functional teams to ensure applications are scalable, secure, and efficient while minimizing technical debt and enhancing operational agility. Additionally, the architect will be responsible for designing and optimizing the data warehouse architecture to support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence needs, ensuring data consistency, scalability, and performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture & Strategy: Define and implement architectural standards and best practices for enterprise applications to ensure scalability, security, and performance.
• Application Integration: Design and implement seamless integration strategies across cloud and on-premise applications, ensuring data consistency and interoperability.
• Automation & Optimization: Leverage automation to improve system efficiencies, enhance workflows, and drive operational excellence.
• Technology Evaluation & Roadmap: Assess emerging technologies, recommend solutions, and develop roadmaps for application modernization and digital transformation.
• Design and implement scalable data warehouse architecture that supports enterprise-wide analytics, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and performance by defining best practices for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, data governance, and cloud-based data warehousing solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IT, business stakeholders, and development teams to align technology solutions with business needs.
• Performance & Scalability: Identify bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and ensure solutions are designed for future growth.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise application architecture, system integration, and cloud-based solutions.
• Expertise in SaaS, ERP, CRM, and cloud platforms
• Strong knowledge of API management, microservices architecture, and middleware technologies.
• Hands-on experience with automation, DevOps practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid understanding of data architecture, security protocols, and compliance frameworks.
• Proven ability to develop technology roadmaps, lead architectural governance, and influence executive decision-making.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Extensive experience in data warehouse architecture with a deep understanding of data modeling, ETL processes, and cloud-based data warehousing solutions.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

All other cities and states excluding those listed above: