Pessoa Arquiteta Corporativa Ciclo de Desenvolvimento e Qualidade | Enterprise Architect

About the role

C6 Bank is looking for an Enterprise Architect to own the strategic direction of the development lifecycle and quality practices across the organization. This person will define how software is designed, built, tested, and released, ensuring alignment with the bank's broader technology vision and business objectives. The role involves partnering with engineering teams, product owners, and leadership to establish architectural standards that govern the full cycle from planning through production. The Enterprise Architect will drive improvements in delivery speed, code quality, and operational reliability while maintaining consistency across all development efforts at the bank.

Key facts

What you'll do

1) Define and maintain the enterprise architecture blueprint that governs the development lifecycle across all engineering teams at the bank.

2) Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to establish quality gates and architectural decision records for each development initiative.

3) Evaluate and recommend tooling and platforms that support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing pipelines.

4) Guide teams in adopting architectural patterns and design principles that ensure scalability, security, and maintainability of systems.

5) Conduct architecture reviews and provide constructive feedback on design proposals to ensure compliance with established standards.

6) Work with quality assurance leads to define testing strategies, coverage metrics, and quality benchmarks for production readiness.

7) Document architectural decisions and maintain living diagrams that communicate system boundaries, data flows, and integration points.

8) Mentor engineers and architects on best practices for building resilient, observable, and well-structured software applications.

9) Align development practices with regulatory and compliance requirements specific to the financial services industry in Brazil.

10) Drive initiatives to reduce technical debt and improve the overall health of the bank's software portfolio.

11) Coordinate with infrastructure and operations teams to ensure architecture supports deployment, monitoring, and incident response workflows.

12) Facilitate cross-team knowledge sharing sessions to propagate architectural standards and promote consistency across the organization.

13) Partner with security teams to embed architectural security reviews into the development process and release gates.

14) Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural trends to recommend innovations that can improve the bank's engineering capabilities.

Requirements

1) Demonstrated experience in enterprise architecture with a focus on software development lifecycle and quality assurance practices.

2) Strong understanding of software design principles, domain-driven design, and microservices or distributed system architectures.

3) Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and align architecture with business goals.

4) Experience working in regulated industries such as banking or financial services is highly valued.

5) Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.

6) Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code approaches in a production environment.

7) Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.

8) Track record of leading architectural initiatives and delivering measurable improvements in delivery velocity and quality.

9) Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to make architectural decisions in a fast-moving, high-growth banking environment.

10) Experience with agile or iterative development methodologies and a commitment to continuous improvement in engineering practices.

Nice to have

1) Experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration technologies in large-scale enterprise environments.

2) Knowledge of event-driven architectures and message broker systems used in distributed applications.

3) Familiarity with observability tools, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring in production systems.

4) Background in open-source contributions or active participation in architecture communities, conferences, and technical publications.

Skills & tools

1) Enterprise architecture frameworks and methodologies for structuring complex software ecosystems.

2) Modeling languages and notation standards for documenting system designs and interactions.

3) Continuous integration and continuous delivery toolchains used in modern software organizations.

4) Automated testing frameworks and quality analysis tools for application reliability.

5) Version control systems and collaborative development workflows across distributed teams.

6) Service mesh technologies and API gateway patterns for managing microservice communication.

Practical notes

1) This role is based in São Paulo, Brazil, with in-person collaboration expected as part of the team structure.

2) The position reports to the engineering leadership team and works closely with product and quality assurance groups.

3) Candidates should be prepared to engage with a fast-paced banking environment where architectural decisions have significant business impact.

4) The hiring process may include technical interviews, architecture presentations, and collaborative problem-solving sessions with senior engineers.

5) C6 Bank is a Brazilian digital bank that operates entirely through mobile and online platforms, serving millions of customers nationwide.