What you’ll be called: Senior Software Architect

Where will you work: KWRI Headquarters—Austin, TX

Named one of the Best Places to Work in Austin, TX and with more than 180K agents worldwide, Keller Williams Technology Group is the foremost provider of real-estate solutions, offering the most comprehensive end-to-end portfolio of products, services and training in the industry. Our passionate and experienced team converts agent challenges into opportunities in the areas of: relationship management, collaboration, transaction management, education, and consumer engagement. All in support of enabling agents to drive greater intimacy in the relationships they have with their customers and enabling consumers to chart their own customer journey.

Who we’re looking for:

Our ideal Senior Software Architect is passionate and committed to delivering solutions to our agents. You are an experienced candidate who is adept at architecting systems designs. As our Senior Software Architect, you have a startup mentality and can quickly research new integrations and technologies. You have extensive technical depth of knowledge and support of high performing solutions. 

What you will do:

As our Senior Software Architect you will partner with the Product Team to execute our agent’s technology visions. You will be in responsible for systems design, technical architecture, code review, technical standards and governance across the entire portfolio of applications.  In a typical day, you will design solutions with the Lead Developers, document architectures, and convey the technology strategy.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Define architectural strategy with modernizing and optimizing processes and platforms. 
• Able to deliver micro-services using rapid development and visual designs 
• Serves as architectural reviewer to the application development teams 
• Understands client & business partner feedback and works strategically with technology partners to evolve enablement to create competitive advantage
• Build relationships with key partners in a highly matrixed environment 
• Provide strong leadership to a geographically dispersed team. 
• Assess current state, desired capabilities and greatest opportunities for impact. 
• Writing project documentation and its support
• Creating unified development standards in the company
• Manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture
• Plan for new technology insertion

Required Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of application architecture and design

• Ability to innovate and transform large mission critical applications 
• Hands on experience in building enterprise solutions
• Seasoned technologist with track record of performance for influencing sophisticated business partners with competing priorities 
• 10 years of relevant experience in software development
• 5 years of related work experience in technical architecture, solution/application architecture, or application development.
• Work with senior level engineers and architects to set the technical direction and strategic objectives
• Experience designing and developing scalable and highly available cloud based solutions on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with multiple database technologies including MySql, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch and GraphQL.
• Experience designing for large scale, highly available, fault tolerant transactional and analytical system in a dynamic environment.
• Proven experience in building microservice or SOA architectures.
• Proven technical knowledge of infrastructure components such as Network, Storage, Linux/Windows, Application knowledge of Java, .Net, and IT security.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years Docker experience; Kubernetes a plus.
• Able to handle changes in priority and requirements, without loss of enthusiasm.
• View challenges as an opportunity to improve the solution, the technology and the effectiveness of the team.

Who are we?

Keller Williams Realty Inc. is the largest real estate company by agent count across the globe. Founded in 1983, we pride ourselves on a unique, agent-centric culture emphasizing a profit sharing system which rewards our associates as stakeholders and partners. Keller Williams Realty International (KWRI), is the company’s corporate headquarters located in Austin, Texas. Here, through a focus on cutting edge technology, education, and products and services, we support our agents and associates to create careers worth having, businesses worth owning, lives worth living, experiences worth giving and legacies worth leaving. In this way we fulfill our vision to be the real estate company of choice.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.