Enterprise Architect

Who We Are

ampliFI provides fully outsourced, customized credit and debit card loyalty programs exclusively focused on banks and credit unions nationwide. For almost two decades, we have delivered compelling rewards programs, unique earn-and-burn opportunities, and card-linked programs to leverage merchant-funded offers.

Here at ampliFI, we are always looking for more great people to be a part of the relentless pursuit of excellence in everything we do. Our core values are Integrity, Curiosity, and Advocacy for our clients.

We are looking for a talented, highly driven Enterprise Architect to join our dynamic team and serve as a strategic technology partner to the CIO and CTO.

Location: This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, with our office located in Naperville, IL (60563), and requires a minimum of three days per week onsite.
What You Will Do

As the Enterprise Architect at ampliFI, you will play a critical role in defining the overall technology architecture and ensuring ampliFI's systems are designed for scalability, performance, and security. You'll serve as the primary architectural authority for cloud, data, and application platforms, helping guide the modernization of ampliFI's loyalty, rewards, and payments solutions.

This position combines strategic leadership with deep technical expertise, ensuring ampliFI's technology investments align with enterprise goals and deliver measurable business impact.
How You Will Contribute

• Define and maintain ampliFI's enterprise architecture strategy, ensuring alignment between business goals and technical execution.
• Serve as the principal architect for ampliFI's core platforms, with a strong focus on AWS, microservices, and distributed system design.
• Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to architect scalable, performant, and secure systems that power ampliFI's loyalty and payment solutions.
• Establish standards for API design, integration, and data exchange, ensuring consistency across services (REST, JSON, JWT, SSO).
• Drive modernization initiatives, including migration from legacy applications to AWS-native architectures leveraging ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, Athena, and S3.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to strengthen CI/CD automation, cost optimization, and observability using Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Automox, and JumpCloud.
• Provide architectural guidance for high-volume transactional systems that support loyalty point accruals, redemptions, and merchant-funded offers.
• Partner with Security and QA teams to ensure compliance, resiliency, and test automation best practices across the technology stack.
• Lead architectural reviews, provide mentorship to engineers, and champion modern engineering practices across teams.
• Support the CIO and CTO in defining technology roadmaps, evaluating emerging tools, and ensuring ampliFI's architecture evolves with business needs.

The Expertise You Bring

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software or enterprise architecture, with proven experience designing large-scale, cloud-based systems.
• Deep expertise in AWS architecture - including ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, DynamoDB, RDS, Athena, and S3.
• Extensive experience in API design, microservices, and system integration (REST, JSON, JWT, SSO).
• Hands-on knowledge of Java/Spring, Python, or Clojure in modern distributed environments.
• Strong understanding of data management using MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, and Athena.
• Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Automox, and JumpCloud.
• Solid understanding of QA automation and performance testing tools including Selenium, Postman, and JMeter.
• Experience in loyalty, rewards, payments, or financial services ecosystems strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with the ability to bridge business and technical priorities.
• Proven ability to think strategically while remaining hands-on in execution.

Additional (Bonus) Skills

• Experience leading architecture governance or technology standards across multiple product teams.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, and messaging frameworks.
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as PCI-DSS or SOC 2.
• Understanding of large-scale data pipelines and real-time analytics.
• Ability to mentor technical teams and communicate architectural decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Our Tech Stack

• Cloud: AWS (ECS, Lambda, Athena, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudWatch)
• Languages: Java / Spring, Clojure, Python
• Data: MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Athena
• Integration: REST APIs, JSON, JWT, SSO
• DevOps & CI/CD: Git, GitHub/BitBucket Pipelines, Jenkins, Terraform, Automox, JumpCloud
• QA / Automation: Selenium, Postman, JMeter
• Project Management: Jira, Confluence

Physical Requirements

• Frequently required to sit and stand.
• Required to use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Visual acuity and manual dexterity required to manage projects and use software and a laptop computer

Other Duties

Duties, responsibilities, and activities are not all-encompassing and may change at any time with or without notice. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits
• 401(k) and Employer Match
• Employer-Funded Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Café Plans for insurance and commuter benefits
• Flexible work hours in a hybrid environment
• Opportunities for professional development and growth
• Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation, and personal time
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Snacks and onsite gym

The compensation range listed below represents the potential salary for this role at the time of posting. However, the final salary may be higher or lower than the stated range, and this range may be adjusted in the future. An employee's placement within the salary range will depend on various factors, including but not limited to: relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any applicable collective bargaining agreements, and the needs of the business or organization. The salary range for this role is$150,000 - $180,000

ampliFI Loyalty Solutions embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

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