Enterprise Architect

Job Overview

iCIMS is advancing its platform architecture to enable agentic systems, intelligent workflows, and adaptive services powered by a unified, data-centric strategy. As an Enterprise Architect, you will lead high-impact transformation initiatives, defining patterns, partnering across engineering disciplines, and ensuring secure, resilient, and scalable solutions that align with strategic business outcomes.

About Us

When you join iCIMS, you join the team helping global companies transform business and the world through the power of talent. Our customers do amazing things: design rocket ships, create vaccines, deliver consumer goods globally, overnight, with a smile. As the Talent Cloud company, we empower these organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent. We're passionate about helping companies build a diverse, winning workforce and about building our home team. We're dedicated to fostering an inclusive, purpose-driven, and innovative work environment where everyone belongs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead transformation initiatives focused on agentic system enablement through data-centric design.
• Define and implement architectural patterns that support autonomous agents, intelligent workflows, and adaptive services.
• Drive the development of a unified data strategy that supports consistent data interpretation across platforms, traceability, and contextual awareness.
• Partner with data architects and engineers to evaluate and integrate emerging technologies that support agentic capabilities, such as event sourcing, knowledge graphs, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure all solutions are seamlessly deployable, resilient, and optimized for their intended hosted environments.
• Provide and timely architectural estimates to Product Management for business-critical solutions to ensure alignment with delivery timelines and strategic priorities.
• Conduct design reviews and mentor senior developers in architectural best practices, principles and standards.
• Engage with Product Management to align architectural decisions with strategic business goals and customer needs.
• Represent iCIMS in external forums, sharing thought leadership on agentic systems, data architecture, and digital transformation.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to high standards of uncompromising integrity, security as a core tenet, and strict compliance to safeguard enterprise trust.
• Advance the overall platform architecture, including selecting new technologies.
• Participate in external events as an iCIMS representative, showcasing thought leadership. Consistently ensure that business is always conducted with integrity and that behavior aligns with iCIMS policies, procedures and core competencies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software/solution architecture; 3+ years as an Enterprise or Platform Architect leading large-scale, distributed systems.
• Demonstrated success in designing and implementing scalable, serverless architectures in Azure or AWS, with a focus on positioning data to support both operational workflows and advanced analytics.
• Experience with Java and proficiency across modern technologies including REACT, Angular, JavaScript, Spring, HTML, CSS.
• Strong understanding of RESTful services, JSON, and event-driven APIs.
• Showcased proficiency in security-by-design: identity/IAM, encryption, secrets management, zero trust, and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA).
• Proven ability to define reference architectures, establish guardrails/standards, and drive adoption across multiple product teams.
• Track record of success in leading Agile or Iterative software development initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience delivering architectural estimates, roadmaps, and trade-off analyses to guide product strategy and execution.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable presenting to executives, product leaders, and engineering teams.
• Experience designing systems that support agentic behavior, autonomous workflows, or intelligent orchestration is highly desirable.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead cross-functional transformation efforts.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, conducting architecture/design reviews, and elevating engineering maturity.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field-or equivalent practical experience.

Education/Certifications/Licenses Required:

• Master's Degree in a technical field with seven or more (7+) years of relevant experience, or a Bachelor's Degree with fifteen or more (15+) years of relevant experience.

EEO Statement

iCIMS is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at iCIMS. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan or policy statement and/or if you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at .

Compensation and Benefits

We accept applications for this position on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and qualified candidates may be contacted throughout the posting period.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $150,000-200,000.00 annually. Final compensation will be based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, education, internal equity, and market data. This range aligns with our commitment to equitable and transparent compensation practices, as required by applicable law.

Competitive health and wellness benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), dependent care, short term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, bonding and parental leave, mindfulness resources, an open vacation policy, sick days, paid holidays, quiet hours each workday, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location, role, and tenure. Learn more here: