Enterprise Architect - India

Paying out-of-pocket sucks. Manual data entry is painful. Workplaces need to be more trusting, and finance leaders need to be more tech-savvy.

We’re right at the tipping point of a fintech revolution - but we need your help to get there.

We are looking for an Enterprise Architect who will oversee the design, development, and implementation of all business applications supported by our IT team. This role will ensure that business applications are aligned with the organization's overall strategy, goals, and technology architecture. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, including business leaders, IT teams, and vendors, to design scalable, secure, and integrated solutions that meet business needs and improve operational efficiency.

Who We Are

To get you off to a good start, let’s just say we’re saying goodbye to an outdated business process that’s been around forever – dreaded spend management.

We do this by helping customers delegate employee spending through a business spending platform. This means no more out-of-pocket spending, encouraging autonomy and trust in employees, and taking a huge burden off the finance team. You'll be building the SaaS tool (company spending solution) that comes with physical pre-paid cards (yes, with a fintech twist) distributed to all employees of the company. The best part? We're all users of Pleo ourselves, so it's a highly applicable tool. It impacts anyone in a company who spends money on behalf of the business – be it a coffee with clients or a Mac for a new hire.

Because we put the employee at the centre of all this, you'll find us to be user-obsessed (don’t take our word for it – check out our Trustpilot page: Trustpilot Pleo Reviews). We place ourselves in the user's position every day and try to minimise the major pains they feel.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Program Manager to lead and coordinate cross-functional projects across various geographies. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional organizational, leadership, and communication skills to work with teams distributed globally, ensuring alignment with project goals, timelines, and deliverables. This role is crucial to driving complex initiatives that involve multiple departments and locations, optimizing collaboration, and ensuring project success.

What the Role entails:

• Strategy & Planning:
  • Develop and maintain the overall business application architecture in alignment with the organization's goals and IT strategy.
  • Create roadmaps and strategic plans for the evolution of business applications.
  • Lead assessments of current application landscapes and identify areas for improvement, consolidation, and modernization.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to drive technology adoption and innovation.
• Design & Implementation:
  • Lead the design and integration of business applications, ensuring they meet security, scalability, and performance requirements.
  • Provide architectural guidance and technical oversight on application development projects.
  • Ensure applications are designed to be flexible, modular, and optimized for cloud-based and on-premise solutions.
  • Collaborate with other IT teams to ensure alignment of solutions with infrastructure, data, and security strategies.
• Governance & Compliance:
  • Establish and enforce application architecture standards, guidelines, and best practices.
  • Ensure business applications comply with regulatory and security requirements.
  • Maintain documentation of the architecture and technical specifications of all business applications.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve business application performance and user experience.
  • Identify opportunities to optimize system performance, reduce costs, and improve the overall IT landscape.
  • Lead post-implementation reviews and ensure continuous improvement processes are in place.

You will success in this role if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in IT architecture, with at least 5 years focused on business applications.
• Proven experience leading the design and implementation of complex enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of IT Applications; ERP, HRIS, and other enterprise systems, including cloud-based platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce) and billing systems such as Zuora.
• Familiarity with architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, or similar.
• Experience with data integration, APIs, middleware, and microservices architecture.
• Strong understanding of security, compliance, and governance in business applications.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and drive consensus.

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us
• Private health insurance to ensure you’re fit in body and mind to do your best work
• In [location], we offer _ days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our IT team, you have flexibility/remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• Wellbeing days - fully paid days off designed for a slower pace, allowing you to take time to recharge and prioritise self-care
• We’re trialling MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and wellbeing support with great success so far ❤️‍🩹
• Access to LinkedIn Learning - acquire new skills, stay abreast of industry trends and fuel your personal and professional development continuously
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶