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

Additional (Bonus) Skills

Our Tech Stack

Physical Requirements

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

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.