Sr. Director, Architecture

Who We Are

Invitation Homes is a fast-paced evolving publicly traded REIT that is pioneering a new industry with over 80000 single family rental homes and a market capitalization of over $25 billion. We are a team of more than 1400 associates who come from all walks of life. We call different communities home but our shared values bind us together. Invitation Homes is a place where possibility lives.

The Sr. Director of Architecture will help lead our architecture practice someone who can drive our architecture strategy to help the engineering organization deliver solutions for our residents and associates. We are at the beginning of our DevOps and CI/CD journeys and we need a strong technologist with deep technical experience to help build our culture of code-as-craft and move our automation efforts forward. Working with the VP of Engineering and the CIO you will work to chart the course of our technical architecture by owning our architecture strategy refining and realizing it by working across all our engineering teams. You will lead the Core API and Platform Engineering teams which are building the capabilities that will power our business and enable and accelerate the rest of the teams across technology.

** Invitation Homes does not offer employment-based visa sponsorship for this role at this time.

What Youll Do

• Partner with the VP of Engineering and other senior Engineering leaders to provide overall leadership and mentorship to the Engineering organization as a whole

• Hire develop manage and coach high-performing diverse teams of managers and engineers focused on cross-cutting concerns such as our Core API and Platform Engineering teams

• Develop knowledge of the business and understand key organizational strategies to develop and communicate a vision of how the Engineering team can help execute against these strategies

• Define team goals and oversee engineering execution with an overall objective of excellence in code quality and seamless rapid code deployment

• Own and run our Solution Architecture practice ensuring that teams are collaborating on their approaches to how they will build their solutions and that they are realizing the principles of our architecture strategy and approach

• Build and lead the Core API team which is building the foundation of our API and event-based approach to connecting systems

• Build and lead the Platform Engineering team which is creating and supporting the development platforms in use by our other engineering teams such as providing shared CI/CD capabilities building and maintaining reference implementations of key technologies and maintaining core engineering infrastructure such as our event bus

• Advance our efforts to shift-left on security helping to build security into the DNA of the engineering organization and partnering with our security team to apply their expertise throughout the software development lifecycle

• Coordinate and collaborate with the Technology leadership and their teams on priorities scope requirements and change management for all initiatives programs and projects where Technology and Engineering are involved

• Foster communication and collaboration across development teams facilitating knowledge sharing and helping engineers have a broader perspective than just their own area of expertise to help them grow and make better decisions

• Partner with our technology leaders to help run the Technology Architecture Guild which contains representatives from across engineering and is responsible for building and maintaining strong engineering principles

• Evaluate recommend and manage technologies to meet our needs from open-source technologies to technology vendor partnerships

• Participate in annual budgeting processes helping to manage the overall technology budget as well as the specific Engineering budget

Who Were Looking For

• Bachelors Degree or related experience

• 15 years of experience in software development and architecture

• 10 years of experience managing engineering teams

• Track record of coaching and mentoring Engineering leaders on both technical and management tracks

• Knowledge of technical operational and cultural structures required to scale teams in a high-growth environment

• Ability to translate short and long-range strategic plans for enterprise-wide architecture into design and implementation of current and future applications and systems

• Proven developer of enterprise APIs and messaging solutions with the ability to decompose complex problems into logical domains

• Experience with implementation of enterprise integration architecture patterns and related technologies

• Strong technologist with knowledge of various architectural styles including layered monolithic client-server or component based

• Deep understanding of AWS Infrastructure-as-Code and modern CI/CD practices

• Polyglot programmer; knowledge and awareness of multiple modern languages such as: Javascript Typescript Go React Java Swift SQL

• Comfortable making the tough decisions when needed and stepping back when needed; you know how to participate in the technical details while still empowering your team to make decisions

• Excellent communication skills - verbal and written with bonus points for having excellent public speaking abilities

• Able to both collaborate with and negotiate with peers inside and outside of Engineering

Why Invitation Homes

We stand for flexibility opportunity and a home that people can make their own. Its as true for our associates as it is for our residents. Just like we help our residents live freer we liberate our associates careers too. Our associates know that at Invitation Homes goals matter potential is unlocked and careers thrive. Invitation Homes isnt just a work place it is a possibility place. Invitation Homes offers the below to each new associate:

• Competitive pay and an annual bonus program for all associates

• Generous paid time off plans including vacation accrual sick time volunteer time and standard and floating holidays

• 401k with matching company contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings

• Employee resource groups: Together with Women Asian Alliance Black Collective Juntos Gen Next and Open Invitation.

Invitation Homes truly is where possibility lives pour a new foundation here!

To attract and retain top talent were pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits including:

• Annual bonus program

• Health dental vision and life insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Generous paid time off plans include vacation accrual sick time standard holidays and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)

Invitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please contact us at .

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