IT软件架构师，SaaS赋能与治理
IT Software Architect, SaaS Enablement and Governance
关于团队
SaaS和软件治理团队隶属于企业IT，帮助OpenAI从初创速度的工具发展为成熟的 enterprise 架构。该团队负责软件、SaaS、集成、API、身份、数据访问和代理驱动的工作流程的实际治理，其职责是提高安全性，减少软件泛滥，并通过更好的基础架构帮助业务团队更快推进。
关于团队
OpenAI正从一个快速发展的初创公司向成熟的 enterprise 运营模式扩展。IT软件架构师将帮助塑造软件、SaaS、数据集成和代理驱动的架构，使公司能够在提升安全性、合规性、数据质量和客户、合作伙伴及员工体验的同时加快步伐。
这个职位不是传统的高塔式架构职能。它是一个实际操作的治理和赋能角色，与业务团队、IT运营、安全、采购、业务平台、应用团队和数据工程合作，指导软件决策，减少未受管理的泛滥，并构建可复用的企业基础架构。
为什么这个职位很重要
OpenAI的软件足迹正在迅速扩展到SaaS、内部开发的工具、代理、集成、API、第三方平台和应用系统。公司需要一个更强大的工具架构层，以帮助团队在早期做出好的决策，避免重复工具，治理敏感数据和身份，并确定OpenAI应该自行开发而非购买的领域。
担任此职位的人将帮助将软件治理从一个审批检查点转变为一项企业能力：一个能提升速度、可靠性、安全性和业务成果的系统。
你将负责
- 负责企业软件、SaaS、集成、API和代理驱动的业务系统的目标架构，推动企业软件的淘汰和整合目标。
- 建立轻量级的治理模式，在软件和集成决策变得难以逆转之前引导团队。
- 制定身份、访问、数据传输、API使用、管理员权限、可审计性、可观测性和供应商集成的架构标准。
- 与安全团队合作，确保软件架构满足SSO、SCIM、MFA、特权访问、非人类身份、密钥、令牌存储、数据驻留、加密、保留和事件响应准备的要求。
- 与采购和财务团队合作进行评估
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About the Team
The SaaS and Software Governance team sits within Corporate IT and helps OpenAI scale from startup-speed tooling to mature enterprise architecture. The team owns practical governance for software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, identity, data access, and agent-enabled workflows, with a mandate to improve security, reduce software sprawl, and help business teams move faster through better foundations.
About the Team
OpenAI is scaling from an emerging, high-velocity startup into a mature enterprise operating model. The IT Software Architect will help shape the software, SaaS, Data integration, and agent-enabled architecture that lets the company move quickly while improving security, compliance, data quality, and customer, partner, and employee experience.
This role is not a traditional ivory-tower architecture function. It is a hands-on governance and enablement role that partners with business teams, IT operations, Security, Procurement, Business Platforms, Applied teams and Data Engineering to guide software decisions, reduce unmanaged sprawl, and build reusable enterprise foundations.
Why This Role Matters
OpenAI’s software footprint is expanding rapidly across SaaS, internally built tools, agents, integrations, APIs, third-party platforms, and application systems that OpenAI. The company needs a stronger tools architecture layer that can help teams make good decisions early, avoid duplicate tools, govern sensitive data and identities, and identify where OpenAI should build instead of buy.
The person in this role will help turn software governance from an approval checkpoint into an enterprise capability: a system that improves speed, reliability, security, and business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Own the target architecture for enterprise software, SaaS, integrations, APIs, and agent-enabled business systems across Corporate IT. Drive deprecation and consolidate targets for enterprise software.
- Build lightweight governance patterns that guide teams before software and integration decisions become hard to unwind.
- Create architecture standards for identity, access, data movement, API usage, admin rights, auditability, observability, and vendor integration.
- Partner with Security to ensure software architecture addresses SSO, SCIM, MFA, privileged access, non-human identities, secrets, token storage, data residency, encryption, retention, and incident response readiness.
- Partner with Procurement and Finance to evaluate renewals, rationalization opportunities, enterprise agreements, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Partner deeply with application verticals such as GTM, Finance, Legal, HR, Research, Product, and Operations teams to evaluate agentic business workflows and translate them into scalable enterprise system patterns.
- Review proposed SaaS and internally built tools for overlap, risk, integration quality, ownership, lifecycle, supportability, and long-term fit.
- Develop reusable architecture blueprints for common capabilities such as intake, workflow, approvals, knowledge management, customer/partner 360, data integration, reporting, content management, learning, surveys, and collaboration.
- Help define where OpenAI-native GPT or agent-built solutions should replace or enable point SaaS tools.
- Create clear decision records and architecture artifacts that are understandable by business leaders, engineers, security reviewers, and procurement partners.
- Drive software catalog maturity by connecting tool inventory, business owner, system owner, integration path, data classification, access model, renewal, risk posture, and support model.
Core Architecture Domains
- SaaS governance and software catalog maturity
- Enterprise integration architecture, including APIs, event flows, middleware, and system-of-record boundaries
- Identity, access, and admin model design across internal and external users
- Data architecture for SaaS, customer, supplier, employee, partner, product, consumption, and connected business models.
- Agentic workflow architecture and GPT-built replacement patterns
- Vendor architecture reviews and enterprise agreement leverage across strategic platforms.
- Security, compliance, ITGC, audit evidence, and operational readiness
- Support model design, ownership, SLAs, escalation paths, and lifecycle management
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, business systems architecture, IT architecture, SaaS governance, integration architecture, or a related technical leadership role.
- Strong understanding of SaaS operating models, software lifecycle management, software asset management, and vendor/platform governance.
- Experience designing integrations across systems, experience in large scale SaaS such as CRM, ERP and Marketplace platforms.
- Practical knowledge of identity and access patterns including SSO, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, privileged admin models, service accounts, OAuth apps, and token governance.
- Ability to evaluate software from multiple angles: business value, architecture fit, security posture, data exposure, cost, supportability, user experience, and vendor strategy.
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, building structure where little exists, and influencing senior stakeholders without relying only on formal authority.
- Ability to write clear architecture decision records, governance standards, system diagrams, business cases, and executive-ready recommendations.
- Strong partner orientation: able to help teams move faster while raising the quality of decisions.
- Curiosity about AI-native enterprise architecture and where GPT, Codex, and agentic workflows can replace or enable traditional SaaS patterns.
Preferred Experience
- Experience scaling IT or business systems from startup-stage tooling into mature enterprise architecture.
- Experience with software rationalization, SaaS enablement and deprecation, vendor consolidation, or enterprise license optimization.
- Experience with architecting systems in a high-growth environment.
- Experience building governance for internally developed tools, low-code/no-code platforms, agents, or employee-built automation.
- Experience working closely with Security, GRC, Legal, Procurement, and Finance on cross-functional risk and control programs.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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