11816 - Sr. Enterprise Architect

Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?

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Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.

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Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.

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Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.

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The Impact of a Sr Enterprise Architect at Coupa:
Owns the technical design and governance of Coupa's custom connector and MCP server portfolio. Sets the architecture standards agentic AI systems use to reach internal and third-party systems securely and at scale, and provides hands-on technical leadership to the integration engineering team.
What You'll Do:

• Define reference architecture for MCP servers and custom connectors: transport (stdio/SSE/streamable HTTP), auth, schema/versioning, error semantics, observability.

• Design and review connector specifications for internal systems (Coupa platform, NetSuite, SAP, Workday, Salesforce) and external partner APIs.

• Establish security and governance patterns: OAuth2/OIDC flows, credential/secrets management, least-privilege scoping of agent tool access, audit logging.

• Own the technical roadmap and backlog prioritization for the integration team in partnership with the Sr. Director.

• Provide architecture review and code-level guidance to AI Integration Engineers; unblock design decisions.

• Evaluate and select platform components (iPaaS, orchestration frameworks, agent SDKs, API gateways) for scalability and maintainability.

• Define and enforce testing/eval standards for connector reliability and agent tool-calling correctness.

• Act as technical escalation point for production incidents involving connectors/MCP infrastructure.

• Partner with Security, Data Governance, and Enterprise Architecture on compliance requirements (SOC 2, data residency, PII handling).

What You Will Bring to Coupa:

• 8+ years in software/integration engineering, including 3+ years in an architect or technical lead role.

• Deep hands-on experience building API integrations/connectors at enterprise scale (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, webhooks, event streaming).

• Working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) or comparable agent-tool-calling frameworks; understands transport, schema, and session-lifecycle tradeoffs.

• Strong command of at least one of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, and proficiency reading the other.

• Practical experience with LLM/agent frameworks (Anthropic/OpenAI SDKs, LangChain/LangGraph, or equivalent) and tool-calling design patterns.

• Solid grounding in identity/auth (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML), API security, and secrets management (Vault, AWS/GCP secret managers).

• Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

• Experience with enterprise systems integration (ERP, finance, procurement) — Coupa, NetSuite, SAP, or similar is a strong plus.

• Excellent written communication in English; able to produce architecture docs and lead design reviews with US/global stakeholders.

At Coupa, we are 100% committed to creating and nurturing an environment that supports your physical, mental, and community well-being. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits designed to help you and your family thrive:

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