Sr. Director, Architecture

Invitation Homes is a fast-paced evolving publicly traded REIT that is pioneering a new industry with over 80,000 single family rental homes and a market capitalization of over $25 billion. We are a team of more than 1,400 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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
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