Senior Architect
The Weather Company15 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise-level target-state architecture across platforms, business capabilities, and engineering domains.
- Translate business strategy into executable architectures, transition roadmaps, and sequencing plans.
- Own reference architectures, design patterns, enterprise standards, and architecture governance forums.
- Define integration and data architecture, including API strategy, event and messaging patterns, master data ownership, and system-of-record boundaries.
- Assess technical debt, redundancy, integration gaps, modernization options, and build-versus-buy trade-offs.
- Build prototypes, reference implementations, shared libraries, and production code alongside delivery teams.
- Implement and improve CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, observability, and other DevOps capabilities.
- Debug cross-system failures, profile performance, support incident response, and remediate architectural issues.
- Partner with security, privacy, and compliance functions to ensure resilient and compliant architectures.
- Mentor development teams, solution and platform architects, and senior engineers through technical direction, design reviews, and code reviews.
- Create and maintain enterprise architecture documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or commensurate experience.
- At least 5 years of system design and software delivery experience, including at least 3 years in an enterprise, solution, or domain architecture role across multiple teams or platforms.
- Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools with sound judgment about their benefits, risks, and review requirements.
- Recent hands-on experience writing and shipping production code and building or operating CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience defining target-state architectures and delivering multi-quarter transition roadmaps.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and architectural principles, including 12 Factor, SOLID, DDD, EDA, SOA, and microservices.
- Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and capability modeling, including TOGAF, ArchiMate, and business capability maps.
- Extensive AWS experience, including cost, resilience, and multi-account or multi-region architecture.
- Practical ability to independently build and debug CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure as code using Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages, including at least one object-oriented language such as Golang, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Strong database, data modeling, and cross-system data flow competency, specifically with MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- Expertise in API design and integration architecture, including REST, event-driven and streaming patterns, and contract and versioning strategy.
- Experience creating and maintaining architectural documentation such as UML, C4, and ADRs.
- Technical leadership, mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and influence without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills across executive and deeply technical contexts.
- Active or prior U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.
- Preferred experience includes platform modernization, distributed-system performance optimization, data platform and analytics architecture, AI/ML workloads, FinOps, high-volume or geospatial/time-series systems, security and compliance regimes, government or defense systems, restricted networks, and federal authorization frameworks.
- Relevant certifications, open-source contributions, technical community participation, or conference speaking experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off program.
- Hybrid work model.
- Medical insurance options, including $0-cost employee premium coverage.
- Benefits effective on day one, including a competitive 401(k) match with no vesting requirement, health, dental, and vision plans.
- Progressive family plan benefits.
- Opportunity to work for a global technology company on impactful work in a collaborative environment.
Tech Stack
About The Weather Company
The Weather Company builds weather data platforms, APIs, and decision-support tools for enterprises in media, aviation, energy, retail, and advertising, and runs consumer weather apps and sites. Revenue comes from enterprise subscriptions/licensing and advertising across its digital properties, including The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground. It is privately held and headquartered in Brookhaven, Georgia, serving hundreds of enterprise customers and reaching hundreds of millions of monthly users.