IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and Governance
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the target architecture for enterprise software, SaaS, integrations, APIs and agent-enabled systems. You will build lightweight governance, define standards for identity, access and data, partner with Security, Procurement and Finance, review tools, create reusable blueprints and decision records, and drive software catalog maturity.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise, business systems, IT, or integration architecture or related technical leadership
- Understanding of SaaS operating models, software lifecycle and asset management, and vendor governance
- Experience designing integrations across systems and large-scale SaaS such as CRM, ERP and Marketplace platforms
- Knowledge of SSO, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, privileged admin models, service accounts, OAuth apps, and token governance
- Ability to evaluate software across business value, architecture, security, cost, and vendor strategy
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and influencing senior stakeholders
- Ability to write architecture decision records, governance standards, and system diagrams
- Strong partner orientation
- Curiosity about AI-native enterprise architecture
Responsibilities
- Own the target architecture for enterprise software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, and agent-enabled systems
- Build lightweight governance patterns
- Create architecture standards for identity, access, data movement, API usage, admin rights, auditability, observability, and vendor integration
- Partner with Security on SSO, SCIM, MFA, privileged access, secrets, encryption, and incident response
- Partner with Procurement and Finance on renewals, rationalization, and build-versus-buy decisions
- Evaluate agentic business workflows with application verticals
- Review SaaS and internal tools for overlap, risk, and fit
- Develop reusable architecture blueprints
- Create decision records and architecture artifacts
- Drive software catalog maturity
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave, medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays and office closures
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals and meal delivery credits
- Relocation support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
