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Chief Architect, VP of Technology

Category Executive Location Mountain View, California Job ID 2025-68224
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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

Intuit's Platform and Development Xcceleration Group (PDX) serves as the architectural and technology foundation of Intuit, delivering x-multiplier impact to accelerate innovation across the tech ecosystem.  Our mission is to empower product development teams and customers with delightful experiences that drive innovation, excellence, and outcomes.  We create an adaptive, intelligent ecosystem that enables frictionless, personalized, end-to-end experiences, helping developers and businesses thrive.  By doing so, we advance Intuit's broader mission - to power prosperity around the world through technology that simplifies complexity, fosters innovation and unlocks new opportunities. 

Intuit has invested in building and establishing its platform strategy through the last decade.  During this period we have made significant investment in our infrastructure that has led to implementation of a cohesive set of platform tools and capabilities. Several innovations were developed during this journey in the areas of microservices, micro front ends, data and AI. Some of the public facing innovations include tools like  ArgoCD,  GenOS that have delivered productivity for developers and customers. We continue to invest in our platform in order to drive further productivity and innovation for developers and customers.

We are looking for a Chief Architect - Vice President, Technology, to lead architecture for the PDX group that covers the development tools and infrastructure for services, applications, third party integrations, identity and cloud hosting. We are looking for a leader that has a passion for solving end-to-end problems for developers and customers.  This role will report to the VP of Development Experiences and Global Architecture, to drive this important charter for the company.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technology strategy for the group working in close partnership with other organizations and leaders
  • Manage the Distinguished Engineers in the organization by defining their focus areas, coaching them.
  • Work closely with cloud providers and help drive the strategy and co-develop solutions with the largest vendors in the cloud.
  • Establish and improve engineering and operational excellence efforts across the company that drive a productive environment for developers and high availability for our customers.
  • Ensure technical governance of technologies being developed and partner with others to deliver end to end solutions.
  • Evaluate solution designs to confirm technical feasibility, alignment with business objectives, and incorporation of critical non-functional requirements.
  • Use, integrate, identify gaps and propose solutions across all technology assets in the company to ensure we have a cohesive platform.
  • Partner with the M&A team to ensure technology evaluation of potential companies that Intuit intends to acquire.

Qualifications

- 15+ years of product and platform development experience with BS/MS in computer science or equivalent

 

- 3+ years in a leadership, managing and coaching globally distributed teams and influencing third party technology strategy

 

- Demonstrated experience and expertise is developing full stack applications across multiple areas from architecture, services, applications, data, analytics, AI and marketing technologies.

 

- Track record of developing high performing organizations and working in a highly collaborative environment across multiple organizations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. The expected base pay range for this position is Bay Area California $$359,500 - $486,500. This position will be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing pay equity for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

Career Path

Mobility plays an important role for our engineering community. In addition to vertical growth, our teams offer lateral growth opportunities. Whether it’s working on a different tech stack or product, Intuit will help you get to the next step in your career.

  • Software Engineer 1 & 2
  • Sr. Software Engineer
  • Staff Software Engineer
  • Sr. Staff Software Engineer
  • Principal Software Engineer
  • Distinguished Software Engineer

There's so much flexibility in terms of moving not just between teams, but between roles.

Lucy Shen Developer Advocate

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