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AvidXchange, Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

💰 $66M Venture Round on 2020-09

AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable (“AP”) automation software and payment solutions for middle market businesses and their suppliers.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the enterprise architecture strategy, target-state architecture, and multi-year technology roadmap aligned to business objectives and Value Creation Plan (VCP) priorities. • Establish enterprise architecture principles, guardrails, and standards that improve consistency, scalability, resiliency, and operational efficiency across the technology landscape. • Lead technology strategy for critical modernization initiatives including platform transformation, application rationalization, data architecture evolution, and AI enablement. • Serve as the architecture authority for the most complex and high-impact technical decisions across the organization. • Drive the adoption of AI-assisted software delivery practices across Architecture, Product Development, and Engineering teams. • Define architecture patterns and guardrails for AI-powered applications, agentic workflows, intelligent automation, and Generative AI solutions. • Partner with engineering organizations to accelerate adoption of AI-first SDLC practices that improve developer productivity, architectural consistency, and delivery speed. • Establish frameworks that enable architecture artifacts, specifications, governance controls, and design standards to be leveraged by AI-enabled development tools and agents. • Lead architecture for strategic initiatives spanning multiple business domains, products, teams, and technology platforms. • Design distributed, cloud-native solutions leveraging microservices, event-driven architecture, API-first design, and domain-driven design principles. • Define enterprise integration patterns, canonical data models, and platform capabilities that promote reuse and reduce technology fragmentation. • Ensure architecture decisions support long-term maintainability while enabling rapid business growth and innovation. • Establish governance processes that improve architectural quality, delivery predictability, risk management, and dependency visibility. • Lead Architecture Review Boards and Architecture & Design reviews for major initiatives and strategic investments. • Drive reduction of technical debt through modernization roadmaps, standardization efforts, and measurable engineering quality improvements. • Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence requirements. • Mentor Principal Architects, Senior Architects, and engineering leaders, helping elevate architecture capabilities across the organization. • Contribute to architecture career development, competency frameworks, interviewing standards, and technical leadership growth programs. • Build reusable architecture assets, reference architectures, decision frameworks, and best practices that can be leveraged across teams. • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends including AI, cloud-native platforms, platform engineering, developer productivity tooling, and intelligent automation. • Identify opportunities to leverage technology investments to improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, customer experience, and scalability. • Guide strategic platform and build-versus-buy decisions through architectural and financial analysis.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred. • 15+ years of experience in software engineering, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or technical leadership roles. • Proven success leading architecture strategy for large-scale, enterprise-grade platforms and distributed systems. • Experience influencing technology direction across multiple products, business domains, and engineering organizations. • Deep knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and architecture governance practices. • Strong experience designing cloud-native systems on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. • Expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, distributed systems, container platforms, and modern integration patterns. • Strong understanding of data architecture, modern data platforms, data streaming, AI/ML enablement, and analytics ecosystems. • Experience building highly scalable, highly available, secure systems in complex enterprise environments. • Familiarity with platform engineering, developer experience (DevEx), and modern software delivery methodologies. • Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-enabled development practices and AI-assisted SDLC capabilities. • Understanding of Generative AI architectures, LLM integration patterns, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, and responsible AI principles. • Experience enabling organizations to adopt AI-driven engineering practices that improve delivery speed, quality, and developer productivity. • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence executives, engineering leaders, architects, and product teams. • Demonstrated ability to drive organizational alignment across competing priorities and complex enterprise initiatives. • Strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, and decision-making skills. • Proven ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority.

🏖️ Benefits

• 18 days PTO* • 11 Holidays (8 company recognized & 3 floating holidays) • 16 hours per year of paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) • Competitive Healthcare • 401(k) Match: 100% match on the first 3% of your salary, plus 50% match on the next 2% • Parental Leave: 8 weeks 100% paid by AvidXchange** • Discounts on Pet, Home, and Auto insurance • Tuition Reimbursement up to the federal maximum of $5,250*** • Hybrid Workplace Flexibility • Free parking