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Bright Horizons

Senior Application Architect

🇺🇸 Remote - Newton, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $149K - $203K

💻 Information Technology

🗓️ December 8th, 2025

GraphQL Next.js Vercel

Edtech.com's Summary

Bright Horizons is hiring a Senior Application Architect. The role involves leading technology strategy and roadmap development, designing enterprise methodologies, and providing technical oversight on large, complex system projects. The architect collaborates with engineering teams and business partners to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

Highlights
  • Lead technology strategy, roadmaps, and product recommendations to enable business goals.
  • Design and develop scalable enterprise architecture solutions including software, data, and technology frameworks.
  • Provide technical oversight for complex system and application development projects.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams, technology leaders, and business partners on product features and architecture consistency.
  • Maintain strategic partnerships among customers, vendors, and technology teams.
  • Deep expertise required in Microsoft technologies (ASP.NET MVC, C#) and Sitecore platforms (XM, XP, XM Cloud).
  • Experience with cloud services including Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, and frontend frameworks like Next.js and React.
  • Must have Sitecore certifications such as Sitecore MVP or XM Cloud Certified.
  • Compensation ranges from $149,000 to $203,000 annually plus bonus and RSUs.
  • Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree, 10+ years in Web Content Management, and proven agile and consulting skills.

Senior Application Architect Full Description

Senior Application Architect

Newton, Massachusetts, United States of America, 02459
Corporate
Full time
  
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.

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.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in technical or business discipline is required
  • 10+ years in Web Content Management (WCM) implementations. 
  • 8+ years in full-stack development using Microsoft technologies. 
  • Experience with Vercel or Netlify (1+years). 
  • Strong ASP.NET MVC and C# skills (8+ years). 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps. 
  • Experience with Next.js, React (2+years). 
  • RESTful API design and consumption (1+– years). 
  • Sitecore MVP or XM Cloud Certified. 
  • 1+years with Sitecore XM Cloud.
  • 6+years with Sitecore XM/XP platforms. 
  • Experience with Sitecore Search (1+ years). 
  • Familiarity with Sitecore DevOps tools: Unicorn, TDS, CLI, SVS. 
  • Solr and Zookeeper configuration experience. 
  • Expertise in Sitecore administration, security, pipelines, and workflows. 
  • Sitecore JSS and GraphQL (2+years). 

Preferred Qualifications
  • In depth knowledge of business operations, objectives and strategies; in depth understanding of global business and technology trends
  • Strong influencing and consensus building skills, and the adaptability to respond to change quickly.  
  • Strong communications skills, both written and verbal.  
  • Ability to effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.  
  • Proven experience with agile practices and expectations.  
  • Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.  
  • Strong consulting skills (relevant/technical); recognized as a thought leader within the company.  
  • Ability to balance the long-term big picture and short term implications of decisions.  
  • Well-versed in cloud technologies from a programming point of view. 

At this time, Bright Horizons will not sponsor an applicant for employment authorization/visa for this position.

Be part of a community where people grow, futures are shaped, and lives are changed. We offer the rewards, opportunities, and support you deserve because making a difference goes both ways. We’re changing the world of work and family, and it starts with you. At Bright Horizons, you’re the difference.

Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $149,000 – $203,000 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. This position is also eligible for an annual bonus & RSUs.

Benefits:
Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements
· 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
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).

Deadline to Apply:
This posting is anticipated to remain open until 12/12/2025

Life at Bright Horizons:

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.