Staff Integration Solutions Architect - Enterprise

Over 140,000 companies—including Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash, Pennymac, and Anthropic—rely on Checkr’s AI verification and background check platform to power safe and fair decision-making.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture, the Staff Solutions Architect serves as a senior consultative technical leader across the entire customer lifecycle—from pre-sales solution design and technical discovery to complex enterprise implementation, go-live, and post-launch platform optimization. In this high-impact role, you will architect complex customer deployments, define integration best practices across RESTful APIs and webhooks, mentor junior/mid-level Solutions Architects, and partner cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Pre-Sales Solution Architecture: Lead technical discovery and architectural design discussions alongside Sales, shaping solution strategy and scoping for prospective and strategic enterprise accounts.
• End-to-End Enterprise Architecture: Design and present scalable solution architectures, including custom RESTful API patterns, webhook frameworks, and data flows tailored to complex workflows.
• Enterprise Delivery & Oversight: Oversee the technical delivery of strategic enterprise deployments, providing architectural governance from design through production launch.
• Post-Sales Optimization: Facilitate technical optimization engagements for existing enterprise clients, identifying architectural enhancements to drive feature adoption and expand platform use cases.
• Senior Technical Escalation: Act as a senior technical escalation lead across the Solutions Architecture organization, triaging and resolving complex, service-impacting integration challenges.
• Mentorship & Team Elevation: Mentor and coach Solutions Architects, defining technical standards, best practices, and developer collateral to elevate organizational capabilities.

Requirements

Experience & Technical Leadership

• 8+ years of professional experience in technical consulting, professional services, solutions engineering, or enterprise customer-facing solution architecture roles.
• Deep technical expertise in RESTful APIs, webhooks, microservices, and modern system integration architectures spanning pre-sales and post-sales contexts.
• Hands-on experience integrating HCM, ATS, or enterprise workforce management platforms (e.g., Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle, Greenhouse) with third-party APIs.
• Proven track record of communicating complex technical concepts to both executive leadership and engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring technical peers, driving alignment with Product and Engineering, and utilizing data analysis/querying to troubleshoot complex integration issues.

Work Style & Mindset

• Action-oriented, resilient mindset with strong technical problem-solving skills under ambiguous project conditions.

Compensation, Workplace Model & Benefits

• Compensation: $150,000 – $176,000 USD OTE/Base Salary range for Denver, CO (varies by geographic cost of labor) + competitive equity grant.
• Workplace Model: Hybrid requirement of 3+ days/week in-office at Checkr hub locations (Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; Nashville, TN).
• In-Office Perks: Daily catered lunch (5 days/week), commuter stipend, relocation stipend options, and abundant snacks/beverages.
• Total Rewards: 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible PTO policy; monthly wellness stipend; learning & development allowance; and up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning.