Senior Application Architect

Bright Horizons•Newton, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Responsible for establishing and providing leadership to the technology strategy and technology roadmaps, as well as product recommendations that enable the business. Designs, develops and maintains the enterprise methodologies and techniques, including standards and guidelines for enterprise-wide use in technical management and systems of process development. Develops specifications for new products/services, applications and service offerings. Provides technical oversight and architecture/engineering solutions to large, strategic, complex system and application development projects. Recognized as a thought leader within discipline who influences decisions made by senior leadership and advances the craft of architecture and engineering within our organization. This is a Remote position available in the United States. Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care, elder care, and educational support. Our workplace reflects this commitment—with collaborative environments, meaningful benefits, and a culture that supports both career growth and personal well-being. Whether you’re caring for children or powering the systems and partnerships that make it all possible, at Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.

Requirements

10+ years in Web Content Management (WCM) implementations.
6+years with Sitecore XM/XP platforms.
1+years with Sitecore XM Cloud.
Experience with Vercel or Netlify (1+years).
Experience with Next.js, React (2+years).
Experience with Sitecore Search (1+ years).
Familiarity with Sitecore DevOps tools: Unicorn, TDS, CLI, SVS.
Expertise Experience in Sitecore administration, security, pipelines, and workflows.
Sitecore MVP or XM / XM Cloud Certified.

Nice To Haves

Sitecore JSS and GraphQL (2+years).
Proficiency Experience in Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps.
8+ years in full-stack development using Microsoft technologies.
Strong Experience in ASP.NET MVC and C# skills (8+ years).
RESTful API design and consumption (1+– years).
Solr and Zookeeper configuration experience.

Responsibilities

Consults with engineering teams on major architectural designs for product roadmap to ensure consistency, security, maintainability and flexibility with respect to overall system, technical and product architectures within a domain or portfolio.
Provides consultation and collaborates with technology leaders, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short range product features.
Designs and develops architecture (integrated process, methodology, framework, software/applications, data, information, and technology) scalable solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
Reviews and ensures major architectural designs are consistent, maintainable, flexible and cost effective solutions.
Participates with application and infrastructure teams to provide guidance for development and releases.
Maintains collaborative and strategic partnerships between customers, vendors, business partners, and technology teams.
Remains hands on with architecture and engineering activities and is deeply embedded in the role of technology.
Shares engineering knowledge and expertise across the organization and industry through networks, events and communities of practice.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Paid vacation, sick, holiday, and parental bonding leave
401(k) retirement plan
Long-term and short-term disability insurance
Life insurance
Money-saving discounts and financial planning tools
Tuition assistance and education coaching
Caregiving support and resources for the children and adults in your family
Learn more at https://careers.brighthorizons.com/us/en/health-and-wellness
Also, depending on hire date and subject to applicable eligibility requirements and accrual schedules, new employees in this role receive up to:
9 paid holidays annually
40 hours of sick time per year based on full-time schedule, and 120 hours of vacation time per year based on full-time schedule (vacation time may be used for sick leave purposes under any applicable state or local sick or safe time law).