Director, Architect

at SolarWinds (View all jobs)

Austin, Texas

Req ID: 202025

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

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.

 

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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