At BlackLine, we're empowering companies by revolutionizing enterprise financial systems. We began by automating the financial close process and are now innovating ways to improve global financial processes. BlackLine's drive for continuous innovation has led to recognition as a leader in financial software products. We've automated the financial close process, created global reconciliation software products, and partnered with SAP. To our customers, we bring peace of mind. To our employees, enthusiasm for the value they bring, a progressive work environment that supports work-life balance, and a commitment to their success.

The role you're applying for:

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Chief Architect will play a lead role in driving technology strategy and developing best-in-class architecture fueling BlackLine's continued growth and thought leadership in continuous accounting.

What You'll Do:

• Contribute to the vision and direction for the future of our Continuous Accounting Platform and Services.
• Demonstrate breakthrough thinking in defining and prototyping the use of leading-edge technologies and capabilities for every aspect of BlackLine's product family.
• Build and lead a strong team of architects, providing technical leadership and mentoring across the full Engineering and Cloud organizations.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership in defining business strategy and in designing solutions to address current and future business requirements and infrastructure needs.
• Establish strong, productive relationships with company leadership to ensure the application and benefit of technologies are well understood, including advocacy and support of technological solutions of others to move the Company forward.
• Define and deliver architectural roadmaps, accounting for existing technical debt, development bottlenecks, and aspirational architecture initiatives to drive revenue, reduce total cost of ownership and cycle time, while supporting overarching company goals.
• Partner with Technology leadership to grow engineering talent through recruitment, career coaching and performance evaluations, and help make our organization be great - being an example of technical leadership and vision with the presence and openness to back it up.

What you need:

• Expertise in the leading-edge technologies used in modern SaaS architectures, including UI frameworks (e.g., Angular, React, style guides), RESTful APIs, caching and persistence layers, distributed architectures with asynchronous queuing systems, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Deep understanding of both technical and non-technical requirements for enterprise SaaS software products and services at scale in the areas of system performance, scalability, security, compliance, usability, ease of implementation, supportability, maintainability, and data center operability for both clients and our business
• Familiarity with major ERP systems like SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, Microsoft Dynamics, and Workday.
• Mastery in current and legacy Microsoft Technologies (.NET, C#, MVC, Web API, Web Forms, Visual Studio, SQL Server), as well as polyglot systems written in Java, Node, and Python.
• Strong working experience with database analysis, design, and performance tuning, as well as experience working with non-SQL data layer design and architectures (NoSQL, non-relational, open-source solutions), including Big Data/cloud-based tooling
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, delivering concise and relevant information to executive management, while striking a balance of being able to speak plainly to hands-on engineers and non-technical stakeholders doing the day to day work.
• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; MS preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in enterprise software design and development, with a proven track record of delivery paired with increasing responsibility in technical and strategic roles
• 10+ years in technical leadership or management roles
• 10+ years in hands-on programming and architecture design for variety of enterprise software applications, with a proven track record of shipping products and solutions
• 5+ years of experience with Enterprise SaaS solutions and modern web technologies

Why do you want this job?

• This is an opportunity to help drive the technology strategy and future architecture for the Industry's most innovative and thought-leading SaaS provider in Finance and Accounting, including next generation suite design, new product investments, external system integration, and best-in-class user experience, availability and scalability.
• You will drive innovation in major technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), transformation to the Public Cloud, modernization of legacy architectures, open platform APIs, and massive distributed data generated by the world's largest global businesses and governments.
• This role offers the opportunity to build and guide a team of top-talent architects and innovation lab, as well as mentoring senior technology leaders across Engineering and Cloud functions.

Working @ Blackline:

BlackLiners think it's a great place to work and some others do too: BlackLine has been recognized as one of the best places to work by LA Best Places to work for five years in a row, and as one of the top Technology companies to work for by Fortune magazine, Gartner, and Deloitte's 500 top Technology companies. We strive to create a challenging and engaging work environment. Please reach out to us if you're interested in a role with BlackLine!

BlackLine will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable laws.