Enterprise Software Architect at Trupanion
Seattle, WA
$190,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior architecture leadership role responsible for defining and evolving company-wide technology strategy, setting standards and governance, and guiding engineering teams toward a coherent target-state architecture. The position spans application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains, with an emphasis on modernizing legacy systems, reducing technical debt, and favoring commercial solutions over custom builds. It includes managing a small team of architects and engaging directly with executive stakeholders.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 4,400–15,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role has 1–3 direct reports and explicit people-management duties (hiring, feedback, career growth), which points to 11-3021. However, the posting heavily emphasizes hands-on technical architecture work — defining target-state architectures, producing ADRs, guiding engineers — so 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is a credible runner-up for the IC/architect dimension.
The position is open across the United States with a preference for Seattle or East Coast time zones. Seattle-based candidates follow a hybrid schedule (3 days/week in office); all others are effectively remote. CBSA is set to Seattle as the stated preferred location, but the role is broadly remote-eligible.
The JD requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree 'or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The 7+ years figure is the stated overall software engineering/architecture experience floor; the 3+ years at enterprise/platform-wide architecture level is captured as the years demanded on the enterprise architecture skill.
AI tools (Codex, Claude, or similar) appear under responsibilities as something the architect should 'document and evangelize' and use to support architectural practices — framed as a forward-looking expectation rather than a hard gate on prior experience, so treated as preferred.
Cloud, distributed systems, security, data architecture, and integration patterns are all explicitly called out in the required qualifications section and are marked accordingly. Specific cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) is never named, so 'cloud architecture' is used as the canonical skill name.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud architecture, enterprise architecture, API-first design, security architecture.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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