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Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect

Acra LendingIrvine, CA, United States
7 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

At Acra Lending our employees enjoy an opportunity to work with great people. We celebrate several events throughout the year accompanied by raffles and giveaways for employees nationwide. We are especially proud to give back to our community and truly enjoy one another's company.

We are looking for candidates to join our team who are passionate about their vocation. Who are committed to making a contribution and are looking to gain experience in order to grow in their career. Our headquarters are located on a beautiful campus in Irvine, California and if you work out of our Irvine office we can also provide a free gym membership.

Summary

Acra is a Non-QM wholesale mortgage lender modernizing its lending platform and partner-facing experiences. As our Enterprise Architect, you will own the end-to-end architecture direction across platforms (LOS, pricing, TPO portal, data, integrations) and guide teams toward secure, scalable, and resilient solutions. You'll create the architecture roadmap, establish standards, and coach engineering and vendor teams while partnering with Product, Security, and Operations.

Base salary : $140,000-$150,000 annually.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Architecture Strategy & Roadmap

  • Define and maintain the multi-year target architecture and evolutionary roadmap spanning LOS (e.g., Byte), pricing (LoanPass), TPO / Glide portal, data / analytics, and automation platforms.
  • Drive rationalization of systems and integration patterns; identify build-vs-buy and sequencing.

Integration Architecture

  • Establish reference integrations for internal and external systems (e.g., pricing / lock, AUS, disclosures, trade management, vendor APIs such as FEMA).
  • Standardize API guidelines (REST / GraphQL), events, and messaging; promote reuse via integration catalogs.
  • Security & Data Governance

  • Partner with InfoSec and Compliance to embed security-by-design, least privilege, and data protection throughout.
  • Define data domains, ownership, lineage, retention, and privacy controls (e.g., CCPA) across platforms.
  • Champion PII handling standards, tokenization, and field-level encryption where appropriate.
  • Environment & Deployment Standards

  • Define environments (dev / test / stage / prod), branching, versioning, promotion, and change control.
  • Set IaC patterns, release orchestration, and rollback strategies; ensure observability (logging / metrics / tracing).
  • Reference Blueprints & Guardrails

  • Publish reference blueprints and sample code (no production ownership); provide quality gates (contract tests, schema validation for MISMO / ULAD).
  • Create solution design templates and an ADR process; run design reviews and approvals.
  • Define SLIs / SLOs and error budgets; engineering implements and reports.
  • Coaching & Technical Leadership

  • Mentor developers and vendor teams on architecture best practices, SDLC modernization, and secure coding.
  • Facilitate threat modeling, scalability reviews
  • Qualifications

    To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software architecture or senior engineering roles managing developer resources, including 3+ as an enterprise / solution architect.
  • Proven experience leading architecture for integration-heavy platforms and vendor ecosystems.
  • Strong background with cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP), networking fundamentals, API management, and event-driven systems.
  • Hands-on with CI / CD, IaC (e.g., Terraform), containerization / orchestration, and observability tooling.
  • 5+ years programming experience in multiple languages, preferably T-SQL, Java, and Python.
  • Excellent written / verbal communication; able to drive clarity and decisions with executives and engineers.
  • Additional Desired Qualifications

  • Mortgage / financial services background : LOS connectivity (e.g., Byte), MISMO 3.4 / ULAD familiarity, pricing / lock workflows, disclosures / CCPA.
  • Experience maturing SDLC (CI / CD, IaC, automated QA) and introducing AI-assisted engineering practices (copilots, code generation, test authoring).
  • Experience with data platforms, MDM, and analytics enablement.
  • Education and / or Experience

    Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered

    Language Skills

    Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

    Mathematical Skills

    Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

    Reasoning Ability

    Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

    Computer Skills

    Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc).

    Physical Demands

    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Always practice good judgment and refer to the safety guidelines.

    Work Environment

    The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Always practice good judgment and refer to the safety guidelines.

    The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

    Benefits

    Our benefit offerings include : Medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, EAP counseling services, FSA & HSA, company sponsored life insurance for employee, voluntary life insurance for employee, spouse and child, AD&D Insurance, voluntary short-term and long-term disability, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, legal assistance, pet insurance, living will and trust preparation discounts, commuter program, annual walking challenge, employee appreciation events and monthly sales awards.

    At Acra Lending, we were founded with a clear purpose : to specialize in alternative income loan products that help borrowers qualify for our flexible loan programs. We operate in 39 States, out of nine offices in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, and Utah along with a growing team of remote professionals across the country. Throughout the mortgage industry, Acra Lending is widely known for responsible lending practices, product innovation and operational efficiency. The foundation of our Company is built on helping our customers by providing Non-QM mortgage solutions for today's borrower in residential and commercial properties across America.

    Our Leadership team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life. We reward our employees with a competitive salary and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals along with an exceptional 401k match program. We look forward to meeting you!

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