ezCater is re-platforming its marketplace on Nova, a composable platform built from domain capabilities, while the existing business continues to grow and deliver. The architectural decisions made over the next two years will shape the company for the next ten. This role exists to make sure those decisions get made well, on time, and stick.

The Enterprise Architect is our most senior individual contributor in technology, sitting above Principal on our ladder and reporting directly to the Chief Product and Technology Officer. It carries real decision authority, not advisory reach: you chair the Architecture Board, own the architecture decision process, and hold standing authority over our most consequential workstreams.

What you’ll do:

• You will chair the Architecture Board and own its decision register: every open architecture decision has an owner and a date, and a decision past its date is treated as a program risk. 
• You will run the Architecture Decision Record (ADR) gate that workstreams pass through before build. 
• You will hold standing architecture authority over our foundational platform programs spanning data, identity, events, and core services, and you will set the target-state architecture that connects the legacy platform, the new platform, and the migration path between them. 
• You will pressure-test designs with senior engineers across the org, raise the quality of technical decision-making broadly, and represent architecture directly to executive leadership.

What you have:

• You have 15+ years in software engineering with experience as the accountable architect for a platform transformation or re-platforming at scale, ideally in marketplace, commerce, or transactional systems. 
• You have made and defended consequential decisions on event-driven architecture, service decomposition, data and identity modeling, and build-versus-buy, and you can show which ones you got wrong and what you did about it. 
• You write clearly: your Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), RFCs, and assessments are artifacts people align around. 
• You are hands-on enough to read a design or a diff and earn the respect of Principal engineers, and senior enough to say no to a VP with a deadline. 
• You operate through influence and decision rights rather than headcount, and you have done it before in an organization where architecture authority had to be established, not inherited.

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).