Senior Architect & Technical Strategy Leader

Realpage; Massachusetts; On-site; USD 142,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Professional development opportunities

Performance‑based bonus

Job summary

RealPage is seeking an Architect V to define technology strategy and drive enterprise architecture across multiple products and platforms. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations leadership to ensure scalable, secure, maintainable solutions aligned with business objectives.

You will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and champion engineering excellence while guiding long‑term technical direction and platform modernization initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in architecture, principal engineer, or equivalent senior technical leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud‑native architectures, APIs, integration patterns, and data architecture.
• Experience designing highly scalable, mission‑critical software platforms.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise, platform, and solution architecture strategies.
• Develop target‑state architectures and technology roadmaps that support business goals.
• Lead architecture reviews and provide governance for major technical initiatives.
• Ensure consistency of architectural patterns, engineering standards, and design principles.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption strategies.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud adoption, platform evolution, AI integration, scalability improvements, and technical debt reduction.
• Establish long‑term technical vision and prioritize foundational investments.
• Design end‑to‑end solutions for complex business and technical challenges.
• Create architecture diagrams, integration models, data flows, and system designs.
• Review critical design decisions for security, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
• Guide teams in balancing business requirements with technical constraints.
• Partner with Product Management to align technology investments with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with Engineering leaders to drive execution of architecture initiatives.
• Work with Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to ensure compliance and operational excellence.
• Facilitate architectural decision‑making across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Promote best practices in software development, cloud architecture, observability, resiliency, and automation.
• Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.
• Lead technical design reviews and architectural governance processes.
• Champion continuous improvement of engineering practices.
• Mentor senior engineers, technical leads, and architects.
• Develop technical talent and strengthen architectural capabilities across teams.
• Influence organizational decisions through technical expertise and thought leadership.
• Foster a culture of innovation, quality, and accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architectures

APIs

Security/reliability/performance

Influence across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

RealPage is seeking an Architect V to define technology strategy and drive enterprise architecture across multiple products and platforms. You will partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Operations leadership to ensure scalable, secure, maintainable solutions aligned with business objectives.

You will influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and champion engineering excellence while guiding long‑term technical direction and platform modernization initiatives.