Director, Enterprise Architecture & Intelligent Automation - GitLab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.

Role Overview

As the Director, Enterprise Architecture and AI Intelligent Automation (IA), you will define and govern how GitLab's internal systems connect, integrate, and evolve to support our rapidly scaling business. Reporting to the VP, Business Systems, you will lead our Enterprise Architecture, Integration, & RPA teams, setting the architectural standards, governance frameworks, and strategic vision that keep our technology landscape coherent, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.

This role is both deeply strategic and hands-on: you will shape the long-term architecture while staying close enough to the work to guide critical technical decisions across teams.

What You'll Do

• Enterprise Architecture Strategy: Define and drive GitLab's enterprise architecture strategy, setting clear principles and patterns for how internal systems connect, integrate, and scale across platforms like Salesforce, NetSuite, Zuora, Workato, and other core business applications.
• Governance & Leadership: Establish and lead GitLab's Architecture Review Board, engaging early with system owners and project teams to shape technical approaches, guide integration patterns, and ensure architectural decisions align with enterprise standards and business objectives (including applying business capability & EA frameworks such as TOGAF).
• Integration Architecture: Design and govern integration architectures and data flow patterns, including API-first approaches, point-to-point integrations, and data warehouse and reverse ETL models, in close partnership with Data Governance and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Automation Strategy: Create and execute a cohesive automation strategy that spans agentic AI, robotic process automation (RPA), and traditional integration technologies, rationalizing existing investments and defining clear decision frameworks for tool selection.
• Software Governance: Lead efforts to reduce shadow IT and software sprawl by implementing software governance processes, partnering with system owners to centralize fragmented solutions, eliminate redundant capabilities, and reduce technical debt and unnecessary spend.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure enterprise, integration, and IA architectures meet SOX compliance and security requirements, including robust access controls, data governance, and audit-ready integration patterns that balance risk management with business agility.
• Team Mentorship: Align decentralized system roadmaps with enterprise architecture strategy, systematically identify and address technical debt, and provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to Integration, RPA, and IA Engineering teams.

What You'll Bring

• Enterprise Architecture Experience: Extensive experience defining and governing enterprise architecture in complex, matrixed organizations, including leading architecture strategy across core business systems such as ERP, CRM, CPQ, billing, and financial platforms.
• Technical Depth: Deep technical background across integration, automation, and AI, with the ability to step into Architecture, Integration, and RPA teams and contribute meaningfully to design discussions and problem-solving.
• Data & API Expertise: Expert-level knowledge of data modeling, integration architecture patterns, API design, and microservices architecture, including experience designing integration strategies that support both operational and analytical use cases.
• Governance Frameworks: Strong experience establishing and leading architecture review boards or similar governance frameworks, balancing partnership-oriented engagement with clear, enforceable standards.
• Portfolio Rationalization: Demonstrated success reducing shadow IT and software sprawl through thoughtful software governance, portfolio rationalization, and roadmap alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• SOX & Security Knowledge: Deep understanding of SOX compliance, internal controls, and security architecture for business applications, with experience designing audit-ready integration and automation patterns.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage VP and C-level stakeholders, translate complex architectural concepts into clear business language, and drive alignment across decentralized teams.

About the Team

The Enterprise Architecture team at GitLab is responsible for designing, governing, and evolving the internal technology landscape that powers our business. We define how our core systems connect, integrate automation and AI into everyday workflows, and ensure our architecture is scalable, secure, and aligned with company priorities. Composed of experienced architects and engineers across integration, RPA, and AI, we operate asynchronously and partner closely with system owners in functions such as Sales, Finance, Customer Success, and Operations.

Benefits & Compensation

• Salary Range: $153,000 — $287,000 USD (Base salary range for US residents; final determination based on experience, skills, and location)
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave
• Comprehensive Health, Finance, and Well-being Benefits