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About the Role

This role defines the technical architecture for LendingClub's data and AI platform, which powers origination, marketing, credit decisioning, analytics, and AI capabilities across all business domains. You will set architecture standards, design resilient patterns, and govern platform technology choices across multiple teams, partnering with Data & AI Platform Engineering to ensure designs are cost-efficient and production-ready.

Responsibilities

Define and maintain the reference architecture for LendingClub's modern data and AI platform, ensuring it meets enterprise security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
Design architectural patterns for data pipelines, storage, compute, and integration that balance performance, cost, and resilience.
Govern shared technology choices for the data platform, aligning decisions across infrastructure architecture, security architecture, enterprise integration architecture, and release engineering / DevOps.
Develop and enforce standards for platform adoption, including data modeling patterns, integration contracts, and security guardrails.
Lead proofs of concept and technical evaluations for emerging technologies, including AI/ML infrastructure, GenAI integration patterns, and automation platforms.
Drive architecture governance in partnership with the enterprise architecture team, ensuring data platform decisions align with broader technology strategy and regulatory requirements.
Identify opportunities to apply AI to improve architecture workflows, such as automated impact analysis, capacity planning, intelligent design pattern recommendation, and architecture compliance checking.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering.
Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
Experience designing and delivering modern, cloud-based data platforms at scale (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent).
Understanding of the trade-offs between performance, cost, governance, and resilience at the architecture level.
Ability to operate as a technical authority across teams, with architecture decisions grounded in deep expertise, operational awareness, and clear accounting of trade-offs.
Design for production, accounting for failover, scalability, security, and operational burden.
Understanding of how to apply AI to complex, high-stakes platform architecture for efficiency and better outcomes.
High bar for responsible AI use, including attention to data integrity, model limitations, and compliance considerations.
Experience building new architectural workflows, not just iterating on existing ones.
Strong instincts about where AI capabilities belong in platform architecture, evaluating build vs. buy for AI infrastructure, and responsible production deployment in a regulated financial environment.
Ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries, working with infrastructure, security, integration, DevOps, and governance teams as a connector.
Ability to communicate architecture decisions in business terms, making complex trade-offs understandable to engineering leaders, compliance stakeholders, and executive sponsors.

Skills

Data Engineering
Data Architecture
Platform Engineering
Cloud-based data platforms
Databricks
Snowflake
AI/ML infrastructure
GenAI integration patterns
Automation platforms
Enterprise architecture governance
MLOps patterns
Model serving infrastructure
Feature stores
Data mesh
Domain-oriented data architecture

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

12+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Salary/Compensations

210,000-245,000

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families
401(k) match
Health and wellness programs
Flexible time off policies for salaried employees
Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave

About the Company

LendingClub (soon to be Happen Bank) is built around a simple purpose: to clear the way to help people turn intention into action, and action into financial progress.
Offers focused products, a frictionless mobile-first experience, and clear terms with no gotchas.
Respect and fairness is part of our DNA, shaping how we work, treat each other, and invest in employees and the community.
Uses data, bold thinking, and a commitment to innovation to help clear the way for millions of Americans to achieve more.
Creating new financial services solutions for members based on fairness, simplicity, and heart.

Equal Opportunity

LendingClub is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Believes that a variety of perspectives will make teams and business stronger.
Committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application process.