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# Senior Architect at The Weather Company

- **Company:** The Weather Company
- **Location:** Andover, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/theweathercompany/jobs/5276844007

## Job description

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

AI is part of how we work:

Human judgment, expertise, and creativity remain essential and are amplified by AI. We expect everyone in this role to use AI thoughtfully and proactively to accelerate their performance, improve the quality of their work, and explore new possibilities. We are looking for people who are curious, adaptable, and excited to help shape an AI-enabled culture that delivers better outcomes for our customers and our company.

Job brief:

We are seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect who bridges high-level strategic vision with hands-on technical execution. In this role, you will define and maintain the target-state architecture across multiple enterprise platforms, business capabilities, and engineering domains.

Unlike traditional ivory-tower architect roles, this position demands direct engagement in the codebase and infrastructure. You will be expected to build prototypes, establish shared reference implementations, resolve complex cross-system incidents, and directly implement modern cloud, DevOps, and CI/CD foundations. You will also serve as a technical anchor, mentoring engineering teams, setting enterprise standards, and balancing technical debt with long-term business enablement.

The impact you'll make:

- Designs and maintains enterprise-level architecture spanning multiple platforms, domains, and business capabilities, ensuring individual system designs composed into a coherent whole.
- Translates business strategy and capability needs into target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and sequencing plans that engineering teams can execute against.
- Owns reference architectures, patterns, and enterprise standards for a set of domains, drives their adoption across delivery teams, and leads the design review and governance forums that uphold them.
- Defines integration and data architecture across systems, including API strategy, event and messaging patterns, master data ownership, and system-of-record boundaries.
- Assesses the current-state landscape to identify redundancy, technical debt, and integration gaps, then recommends rationalization, modernization, or build-versus-buy paths with cost, risk, and operational trade-offs made explicit.
- Works hands-on in the codebase and in infrastructure as needed: prototypes and proves out architectural approaches, builds reference implementations and shared libraries, and contributes production code alongside delivery teams.
- Implements and improves DevOps capability directly, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, containerization, and observability, rather than only specifying how they should work.
- Steps into delivery and incident response where architectural depth is the bottleneck, including debugging cross-system failures, performance profiling, and remediation.
- Partners with security, privacy, and compliance functions so architectures meet regulatory, resilience, and data-protection requirements by design.
- Guides and mentors development teams, solution and platform architects, and senior engineers, through architectural direction, design review, and code review.
- Creates and maintains enterprise architecture documentation (e.g., C4, capability models, domain and system landscape maps, ADRs) and keeps it current as systems evolve.
- Other duties as assigned.

What you've accomplished:

- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or commensurate experience.
- 5+ years in system design and software delivery, with 3+ years in an enterprise, solution, or domain architecture role operating across multiple teams or platforms.
- Practical fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding assistants and agentic development environments) as part of day-to-day delivery, with sound judgment about where they accelerate work, where they introduce risk, and how their output must be reviewed.
- Currently hands-on: recent, direct experience writing and shipping production code and building or operating CI/CD and cloud infrastructure, not solely oversight of others doing so.
- Demonstrated experience defining target-state architectures and multi-quarter transition roadmaps that were actually delivered against.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and architectural principles (e.g., 12 Factor, SOLID, DDD, EDA, SOA, microservices) and sound judgment about when each applies.
- Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks and capability modeling (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, business capability maps), applied pragmatically rather than ceremonially.
- Extensive experience with the AWS cloud platform, including cost, resilience, and multi-account or multi-region considerations.
- Practical competency with CI/CD pipelines, containerization and infrastructure as code at a level sufficient to build and debug them independently. This includes Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, Grafana / Prometheus
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages with at least one being OOP (e.g., Golang, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Strong competency in databases (SQL/NoSQL), data modeling, and data flow across system boundaries, specifically with MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.
- Expertise in API design and integration architecture, including REST, event-driven and streaming patterns, and contract and versioning strategy.
- Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining architectural documentation (e.g., UML, C4, ADRs) for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated capability in technical leadership, mentoring, facilitating cross-team collaboration, and influencing decisions without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to move between executive-level framing and deep technical detail.
- Active or prior U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.

## Nice to have

- Experience with large-scale platform modernization, migration, or consolidation programs.
- Experience in performance optimization, profiling, and tuning of distributed systems.
- Familiarity with data platform and analytics architecture (e.g., warehousing, lakehouse, streaming ingestion).
- Experience architecting for AI/ML workloads, including model serving, feature data, and inference cost management.
- Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost optimization at the portfolio level.
- Background in high-volume, low-latency, or geospatial/time-series data systems.
- Experience working within security and compliance regimes (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, PCI).
- Experience architecting systems for government or defense customers, including deployment into accredited environments at defined DoD impact levels (e.g., IL2 through IL6 under the DoD Cloud Computing SRG) and the constraints each level places on design.
- Familiarity with secure and restricted network environments common to military programs, such as segmented or air-gapped enclaves, cross-domain solutions, NIPRNet/SIPRNet connectivity, and limited or intermittent egress, and how those conditions shape integration, data movement, and deployment architecture.
- Working knowledge of federal security and authorization frameworks (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53 and 800-171, RMF and the ATO process, STIG hardening, CMMC) and experience producing the architectural documentation those processes require.
- Certifications in relevant technologies or frameworks (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Architect, TOGAF).
- Contributions to open-source projects, technical communities, or conference speaking engagements.

Base Salary: $135,000 - $160,000

The base salary offered will take into account internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region of work premises, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors.

TWCo Benefits/Perks:

- Flexible Time Off program
- Hybrid work model
- Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
- Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
- Progressive family plan benefits
- An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
- Impactful work in a collaborative environment

## About The Weather Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Weather Company is a global leader in weather data, forecasting, and insights, providing scalable solutions for consumers, businesses, and governments through its portfolio of trusted brands and a robust API platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of IBM)
- **Headquarters**: Brookhaven, Georgia, United States (also major hubs in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY)
- **Founded**: 1982 (as The Weather Channel)
- **Founders**: John Coleman (co-founder of The Weather Channel)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather Data & Forecasting, Technology, Media, Advertising, Aviation
- **Target customers**: B2B (Aviation, Media, Advertising, Government/Defense) and B2C (Consumers via The Weather Channel, Weather Underground, Storm Radar)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To instill confidence, drive decisions, and propel the world by putting science and technology to work. The company aims to "drive better, faster decisions for the millions of consumers, clients, and partners who rely on us every day."

## Products & Services
- **[The Weather Channel App & Website]**: The flagship consumer brand and the most downloaded weather app, available on iOS and Android across 178 countries and 83 languages. Provides hyper-local forecasts, severe weather alerts, and lifestyle content.
- **[Weather Underground]**: A community-driven weather platform that provides hyper-local data and forecasts from a network of personal weather stations.
- **[Storm Radar]**: A dedicated severe weather tracking app providing real-time, interactive radar and storm path predictions.
- **[Weather Data API]**: A robust, enterprise-grade API platform that allows businesses to integrate weather data into their applications, business processes, or custom models. Guarantees 99.9% uptime SLA.
- **[Aviation Weather Solutions (Pilotbrief)]**: Provides preflight and in-flight weather briefings, safety tools, and performance optimization data for the aviation industry. Originally pioneered dial-up aviation weather briefings.
- **[Media Solutions]**: Provides enterprise-class production tools, visualizations, and advanced weather data to television stations and broadcasters to create personalized content and cross-platform experiences.
- **[Advertising Solutions]**: A privacy-forward, contextual advertising platform that leverages weather as a signal to deliver predictive insights and more relevant, precise campaigns for marketers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held subsidiary of IBM). Estimated annual revenue of **$133.4M**.
- **Key Metric**: **~2.2 billion** weather forecasts produced each day for **2.2 billion** locations. The Weather Channel app has **3x more cumulative downloads** than its closest competitor.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: IBM (parent company). Key partners include hundreds of global broadcasters and thousands of enterprise customers across aviation, media, and government.
- **Growth Signals**: Named the **#1 most trusted brand in the U.S.** (Morning Consult, 2025) and the **world's most accurate forecaster** (ForecastWatch, 2021-2024). The company is investing heavily in AI to power predictive insights for advertising and consumer products. Employs 523 people (-1.6% YoY).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Accuracy & Trust**: Consistently ranked as the world's most accurate forecaster and a top 10 most trusted brand, creating a massive competitive moat in both consumer and enterprise markets.
- **Massive Data & Scale**: Processes data from billions of locations daily, with 89% of users opting in to share location data. This creates a unique, privacy-forward data asset for AI and advertising.
- **Patent Portfolio**: Holds dozens of patents for weather forecasting, data processing, and visualization technologies.
- **Deep Industry Integration**: Long-standing, mission-critical relationships in aviation (70% of air traffic delays are weather-related), media (the #1 reason people watch local news is weather), and government.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Powered Innovation**: Leveraging AI to enhance forecast accuracy, deliver predictive advertising insights, and improve consumer experiences.
- **Expanding Enterprise Solutions**: Growing the B2B side of the business, particularly in Aviation, Media, and Advertising, by offering more integrated, data-rich solutions.
- **Consumer Engagement**: Maintaining and growing the massive consumer user base (50M+ daily users) through continuous app innovation and personalization.
- **Climate Adaptation**: Positioning the company as a critical partner for businesses and governments navigating an increasingly volatile climate.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees are driven by a purpose to help people and businesses make better decisions in the face of increasingly volatile weather. The culture is described as "curious, collaborative, and purpose-driven."
- **Strong Stability & Longevity**: Nearly half of employees have spent more than a decade at the company, indicating high retention and a stable work environment. Backed by IBM.
- **Flexibility & Perks**: Offers **partial remote work options** and a **Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy** with no limit on paid days off. Comprehensive benefits include $0 premium employee medical coverage, strong 401k match (no vesting), tuition reimbursement, and progressive family planning benefits (fertility treatments, adoption/surrogacy reimbursement, paid parental leave).
- **Cross-Functional Opportunities**: Roles span product design, technology, weather science, data & analytics, sales, marketing, and operations. Notable open roles include Senior Data Engineer, Staff Software Engineer (AI/Weather Science), and Cybersecurity Analyst.
- **Locations**: Major offices in Andover, MA; Atlanta, GA; and New York, NY.

## Sources
1. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/careers/)
2. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/)
3. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/about-us/)
4. [weathercompany.com](https://www.weathercompany.com/leadership/)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weather-company)

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