Director, Architect

Role Summary

This is more than just an architecture role; it's a unique opportunity to influence the future of SolarWinds as we work to improve company-wide operations. You'll work directly with senior technical and business leaders to architect at a global scale, shape foundational strategy, and help create customer experiences that feel intelligent, adaptive, and truly personal. If you're passionate about architecting at scale and influencing technical direction across a major cloud platform, we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities

• Partner with technology leaders at Solarwinds and across our vendor landscape to define and drive a cohesive strategy at the convergence of our applications needed to drive the customer/partner, and employee experience.
• Work with our Data teams to evaluate and connect data, enabling highly personalized and performant agentic experiences.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design and standardize scalable, secure, and extensible architectural patterns and services.
• Lead cross-cloud architectural efforts to ensure consistency, interoperability, usability, and performance across platforms and systems.
• Serve as a thought leader and trusted advisor to senior engineering, GTM teams, and product leadership, actively shaping long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Mentor, support, and partner with architects and engineers across the organization, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and alignment.
• Explore and implement AI-powered solutions and tools to advance architectural design and inform strategic decision-making.

What We're Looking For

• 15 years of experience in software engineering and architecture, with deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure, and data platforms.
• At least 10 years of experience in platform and data architecture, including 3+ years in a similar senior leadership role.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and environments (public and private) with a strong ability to lead teams through complex technical challenges.
• Proven ability to architect and scale cloud-native systems that enable intelligent automation and AI-driven real-time personalization.