Job description
About Pinterest:
Millions of people across the world come to Pinterest to find new ideas every day. It's where they get inspiration, dream about new possibilities and plan for what matters most. Our mission is to help those people find their inspiration and create a life they love. In your role, you'll be challenged to take on work that upholds this mission and pushes Pinterest forward. You'll grow as a person and leader in your field, all the while helping Pinners make their lives better in the positive corner of the internet.
Our new progressive work model is called PinFlex, a term that's uniquely Pinterest to describe our flexible approach to living and working. Visit our PinFlex landing page to learn more.
The IT Enterprise Architect will provide digital thought leadership for Pinterest's IT organization. This individual will be the authoritative expert for business systems supporting Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, Learning and Employee Enablement solutions. You will have a collaborative nature that facilitates strong partnering with Pinterest business units, particularly with the Engineering org. The IT Enterprise Architect will have a vast knowledge of and experience delivering technical capabilities across multiple technologies/platforms - you've walked a mile in the shoes of other technologists. You will use your vast knowledge and experience to drive excellence through standards in agile delivery practices. You will indirectly lead teams of technologists to advance Pinterest's solutions delivery roadmap, providing guidance and oversight. You will solve complex technical challenges by rolling up your sleeves and taking part in the delivery, always focusing on the end user experience. You will partner with the IT leadership community to communicate the solutions and roadmap to business stakeholders. In short, you are an inspiring leader with an insatiable need to learn and grow, and an engineer at heart.
What you'll do:
- Evaluate projects from a technical perspective, ensuring alignment with business needs, IT roadmap, architecture and security standards, internal controls, and IT methodology
- Ensure solution designs and implementation meet architecture quality standards
- Ensure solutions improve overall information flow, reduce cost of service whenever possible, and do not duplicate existing functionality or diverge from business and IT strategies. Your focus will be on delivering high quality solutions and high reuse of solutions
- Foster innovation and implement creative out-of-the-box ideas by conducting brainstorming sessions, hackathons and other innovation events and elevate the thinking of Pinterest's technologists
- Be the champion for a security-first mindset and elevate the overall security competency within IT
- Assist in the development of policies, standards, and guidelines that direct the selection, development, implementation, and use of Information Technology within the enterprise
- Guide Solutions Architects / Tech Leads to ensure that application and integration architecture aligns with system design guidelines and enterprise architecture standards.
- Participate in business, data, application and infrastructure planning, providing insight into the future of the technology footprint within the assigned functional area
- Evaluate new technologies and create proposals for their adoption based on business goals, investments, benefits and risks
- Coach, mentor and guide solution delivery and operations teams to effectively leverage the technology footprint
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders as well as technical leaders within IT and other engineers throughout the organization (product engineering, data platforms, etc.)
What we're looking for:
- 10+ years of experience in IT and stakeholder relationship management
- 7+ years of experience leading organizations through major change initiatives
- 10+ years product management and engineering experience utilizing agile development methodologies
- Track record of successfully establishing and implementing transformation programs in an Agile and DevOps environment
- Demonstrated knowledge of SaaS, infrastructure, and cloud computing architectures
- Demonstrated knowledge of data security and compliance controls
- Experience designing/engineering Identity Access Management solutions a plus
- Demonstrated knowledge of advanced automation (bots, AI, low-code platforms)
- Ability to respond effective to ambiguity and change, and keeps teams and strategic initiatives moving forward even when things are not certain or the path forward is not clear
- Track record of evaluating plans to identify risk, ensure alignment of goals, plans, and priorities across teams and functions, and meet commitments; ability to create clarity about what success looks like and inspire velocity in self and others to achieve results that accelerate functional impact
- Capable of stepping up to address difficult issues and saying what needs to be said
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At Pinterest we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.
Information regarding the culture at Pinterest and benefits available for this position can be found here.
US based applicants only
Our Commitment to Diversity:
At Pinterest, our mission is to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love—and that includes our employees. We’re taking on the most exciting challenges of our working lives, and we succeed with a team that represents an inclusive and diverse set of identities and backgrounds.
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