Application Architect (Remote Opportunity)

This is a remote position available in the United States.

Bright Horizons is trusted by families and employers around the world for high-quality child care and early education, back-up care, and workplace education. We partner with some of the world’s best companies to provide services that help employees perform their best and support families to thrive both personally and professionally.

Responsibilities:

• Management of technology solutions that are aligned with business needs, reflect best practices, and increase option value for the organization. Make high-level design choices focused on manageability, scalability, usability, resiliency, availability, security, and safety for the software structure, protocols, and algorithms.
• Determine coding, development tools, validation, and standards compliance requirements. Collaborate with management, product owners, and project managers to evaluate the feasibility of requirements and determine priorities for development.
• Perform pathfinding, survey technologies, participate in standards committees and present at external and internal events. Interact with multiple technologists in the company to influence architectures and optimize/customize software offerings.
• Provide recommendations for software architecture plan and software development standards and best practices. In conjunction with the CIO and IT leadership team, enhance IT best-practices, policies, and methodologies as part of the Bright Horizons IT transformation to a world-class IT organization.
• Provide technical leadership on design, development, and execution of software solutions. Propose new technical architectures and solutions to improve and enhance existing architectures.
• Determine scope and provide level of effort estimates for project tasks and related activities and allocate team resources appropriately. Provide technical architecture subject matter expertise and evaluate and test emerging technologies/tools.
• Conduct and facilitate collaborative data modeling activities among multiple stakeholders.
• Support business development efforts and hold regular status meetings with project team.
• Effectively communicate relevant project information to superiors.
• Deliver engaging, informative, well-organized presentations. Position may work remotely.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field and six years of experience in the job offered or six years of experience application development.
• Experience must include three years each of the following: building a system with high-security standards using security protocols OAuth and OIDC or SAML; web application development using .Net, Angular, ngRx, rxjs, Mass Transit, ASB and RabbitMQ; designing and architecting enterprise-scale applications using distributed, micro services, Domain Driven Design (DDD), event-driven, and cloud native architectures; REST and GraphQL using Design Patterns CQRS, Outbox, SAGA, Circuit Breaker, and Mediator. Experience must include two years cloud Azure including Docker and Kubernetes; and one year Generative AI with Open AI and LLM. Experience may be gained concurrently.

Salary and Other Compensation Disclosures

The annual starting salary rate for this position is between $173,000 - $178,000 annually.  The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education and training, certifications, geography, and other relevant business or organizational factors.

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).

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Life insurance

• Long-term disability insurance

• Short-term disability insurance

Deadline to Apply Information:

This posting is anticipated to remain open until 3/4/2025.

Our people are the heart of our company. Because we’re as committed to our own employees as we are to the children, families, and clients we serve, our collaborative workplaces are designed to grow careers and support personal lives. Come build a brighter future with us.

Bright Horizons provides equal opportunity in all aspects of employment and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Bright Horizons complies with the laws and regulations described in the following federal government resources: Know Your Rights, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA).

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in completing these application materials or any aspect of the application and hiring process, please contact the recruitment helpdesk at 855-877-6866 or bhrecruit@brighthorizons.com. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.