A career that’s the whole package!
At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.
Conga accelerates the customer’s journey to becoming a more connected and intelligent business. The Conga Advantage Platform is recognized worldwide for enhancing this journey, bringing together Configure, Price, Quote, Contract Lifecycle Management, and Document Automation capabilities on a single open platform. It integrates seamlessly with any ERP, CRM, and Cloud. Powered by a unified data model and purpose-built AI, Conga helps companies achieve a unique advantage—one built on seamless connection, actionable intelligence, and scalable growth.
Our approach is grounded in the Conga Way, a framework that reflects our values and drives everything from hiring to decision-making, as well as key programs including recognition. Created with direct input from our colleagues, the Conga Way forms the foundation of our vibrant culture.
A career that’s the whole package!
At Conga, we’ve built a community where our colleagues can thrive. Here you’ll find opportunities to innovate and support growth through individual and team development, all within an environment where every voice is heard.
Conga accelerates the customer’s journey to becoming a more connected and intelligent business. The Conga Advantage Platform is recognized worldwide for enhancing this journey, bringing together Configure, Price, Quote, Contract Lifecycle Management, and Document Automation capabilities on a single open platform. It integrates seamlessly with any ERP, CRM, and Cloud. Powered by a unified data model and purpose-built AI, Conga helps companies achieve a unique advantage one built on seamless connection, actionable intelligence, and scalable growth.
Our approach is grounded in the Conga Way, a framework that reflects our values and drives everything from hiring to decision-making, as well as key programs including recognition. Created with direct input from our colleagues, the Conga Way forms the foundation of our vibrant culture.
Job Title: VP, Architectural Engineering
Location(s): Houston, TX; Boston, MA
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
A quick snapshot…
As Conga’s Vice President of Architecture, you’ll define and evolve the enterprise architecture for our cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform. This role blends strategic vision with hands-on architectural leadership, partnering closely with Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations leaders to ensure our platform remains scalable, secure, and extensible as the business grows.
You’ll play a central role in shaping how Conga’s technology foundation supports rapid innovation today while enabling long-term growth.
Why it’s a big deal…
Architecture decisions made today directly impact Conga’s ability to scale, innovate, and deliver reliable experiences to our customers tomorrow.
In this role, you’ll influence how our platform evolves across product lines, guide modernization efforts, and help teams make thoughtful architectural tradeoffs that balance speed, quality, and sustainability. Your leadership ensures our technology strategy remains aligned with business priorities as we grow.
Are you the person we’re looking for?
Technology & Architectural Strategy. You’ll set the long-term architectural direction for Conga’s SaaS platform, defining principles, standards, and a roadmap that aligns technology strategy with product and business goals. You’ll evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption where it creates real value, helping teams make informed decisions that scale.
This includes:
Platform & System Architecture. You’ll lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems that power Conga’s core platform. This includes ownership of high-level architecture for APIs, data pipelines, integration frameworks, identity management, and observability, while ensuring systems meet availability, performance, cost, and maintainability goals.
Leadership & Collaboration. You’ll mentor and lead a team of architects while partnering closely with engineering leaders to maintain alignment across teams. You’ll work alongside product management to evaluate feasibility and define technical direction, and collaborate with security, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure architectures meet reliability and compliance requirements.
Governance, Security & Execution. You’ll guide architecture and design reviews, create reusable patterns and reference architectures, and promote engineering quality through documentation and oversight. You’ll also ensure architectures support strong security, compliance, disaster recovery, and business continuity, balancing innovation with pragmatic execution to meet delivery timelines.
Leadership & Mindset. You’re a senior technology leader who knows how to set a clear architectural vision while staying grounded in execution. You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, build strong cross-functional partnerships, and guide teams through complex architectural decisions with clarity and confidence.
You thrive in fast-paced environments and understand how to balance innovation with stability as platforms scale.
Related Experience. You bring deep technical and leadership experience building and evolving modern SaaS platforms.
Technical Expertise. You have deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, API design, cloud infrastructure, and data architecture. You’re experienced with platforms such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, and are comfortable balancing high-level strategy with hands-on problem solving when needed.
Here’s what will give you an edge…
Passion. You care deeply about building thoughtful, scalable architectures and helping teams do their best work. Your passion shows in how you approach design decisions and long-term system health.
Initiative. You proactively identify architectural challenges and opportunities, step up to lead change, and help teams navigate complexity with confidence.
Ownership. You take responsibility for architectural outcomes and understand their broader impact on product quality, customer experience, and business success.
You’ll stand out if you bring:
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In the spirit of the Conga Way, we strive to design easy-to-understand compensation programs that are fair and free from any type of discrimination. In keeping with this approach, we are committed to delivering competitive compensation and benefits packages to our colleagues worldwide and communicating transparently about the structure of our compensation programs.
Listed below is the U.S. base salary range for this full-time position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education, or training. In addition to base salary, Conganeers receive a variable incentive pay component, perks such as flexible work options, and a full range of benefits including medical and dental insurance.
The posted salary ranges are for the expectations outlined in the job description. We are often open to a wide variety of profiles and sometimes have flexibility within our organizational structure to adjust the role responsibilities up or down should we select a candidate that is less or more experienced than the posted job requirements. In these occasional cases, we will communicate the revised salary range to the candidate during the selection process.
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