Senior Enterprise Application Architect - Fully Remote

Futures start here. Where first steps, new friendships, and confident learners are born. At Kinder Care Learning Companies, the first and only early childhood education provider recognized with the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award we offer a variety of early education and child care options for families. Whether it’s Kinder Care Learning Centers, Champions, or Crème de la Crème, we build confidence for kids, families, and the future we share.

And we want you to join us in shaping it—in neighborhoods, at work, and in schools nationwide.

At Kinder Care Learning Companies, you’ll use your skills and expertise to support the work (and fun) that happens in our sites and centers every day. From marketers and strategists to financial analysts and data engineers, and so much more, we’re all passionate about crafting a world where children, families, and organizations can thrive.

As Enterprise Application Architect you'll support the entire customer lifecycle for our families, from inquiry through enrollment and beyond! Shaping and enabling all center and family facing digital experiences and related operational reporting. You will partner closely with our Digital Products and Digital Engineering team leaders to ensure solutions are scalable, integrated, secure and aligned with enterprise architecture standards while delivering exceptional customer experiences.

The Senior Enterprise Application Architect balances strategic leadership in architecture with active project participation. They guide teams to build using current software patterns, platform capabilities, and integration strategies that enhance growth, speed, and reliability throughout the enterprise. Together you will enable Kinder Care’s transformational initiatives to deliver against our vision of building confidence for life for families and our employees.

Value Stream & Solution Architecture Partnerships

• Serve as the lead Enterprise Application Architect for the Inquiry to Revenue value stream, spanning marketing, inquiry, enrollment, pricing, contracting, payments, and related customer and center-facing experiences. This is your business domain focus.
• Partner with solution architects and delivery teams to ensure architectural intent is realized without becoming a delivery bottleneck.
• Represent application architecture for the Enterprise Architecture team. Here is your architecture domain focus.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and your fellow Enterprise Architects to translate business capabilities and customer journeys into scalable application architectures.
• Be the “tip of the spear” for IT by initiating the capability digitization process well before product delivery, exposing likely impacts to current-state architecture, critical decisions, and key risks with clear response options.
• Evaluate build vs. buy decisions and guide product and platform selections with a long-term enterprise perspective, optimizing current platform investments while modernizing the application ecosystem to enable business innovation.

• Establish and evolve enterprise modeling practices while driving automation of core enterprise architecture workflows, bringing to bear AI-enabled solutions to improve governance, dependency transparency, and decision velocity.
• Ensure solutions align with Kinder Care’s enterprise architecture principles, standards, and reference architectures.
• Actively participate in and help lead the Architecture Review Board (ARB), providing architectural guidance, reviewing designs, and influencing technology direction through standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Identify architectural risks, technical debt, and cross-domain dependencies; propose pragmatic risk management strategies and tactics.
• Collaborate with other domain architects (business & information, application, and technology) and solution architects to ensure cohesive enterprise solutions.

• Define and promote modern application and integration patterns and reference architecture, including API-first, event-driven, and composable architectures.
• Partner with integration and platform groups…