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Want to lead the technical design behind modernizing AccuWeather For Business — the platform that delivers AccuWeather’s data and services to more than half of the Fortune 500? We are looking for a Data Architect I who combines strong platform design expertise with the judgment to assess legacy infrastructure and design an implementable, cloud-native architecture; someone who wants to own the technical direction of a critical modernization initiative without compromising the reliability enterprise clients depend on. Reporting directly to the Data Architect II overseeing AccuWeather’s data architecture function, this position will assess the legacy, on-premises infrastructure behind AccuWeather For Business and design the cloud-native architecture that will support its future. You will produce architecture and modernization design documents — including current-state assessments, target-state designs, transition and sequencing plans, and technical specifications — and work alongside engineering teams to implement key components of the architecture, while maintaining the reliability of the backend data systems that support critical data delivery services. You will demonstrate high-level knowledge across cloud platforms and legacy enterprise systems, independently resolve complex architecture and modernization challenges, and collaborate closely with the Data Architect II and engineering teams. Your work will help modernize the technology foundation behind AccuWeather For Business, creating a more scalable, resilient, and cloud-native platform while maintaining the reliability expected by the Fortune 500 companies that depend on it. We are open to hiring candidates to work from our global headquarters in State College, PA, USA, or remotely. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES · Assess the legacy, on-premises infrastructure behind AccuWeather For Business, documenting current-state architecture, system dependencies, data flows, and technical debt to inform modernization priorities. · Design the cloud-native architecture, producing architecture designs, technical specifications, and other documentation needed to guide implementation. · Own the architectural direction for the modernization effort, ensuring a cohesive approach across the platform rather than individual services or components. · Develop a roadmap and sequencing plan that provides a practical path from the current environment to the cloud-native architecture while minimizing disruption to enterprise clients. · Design backend data systems to maintain continuity of critical data delivery services throughout the transition. · Partner with engineering and data teams to validate and implement architecture designs, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, performant, and maintainable. · Contribute hands-on to the implementation of architecture designs, including developing and modifying code, data models, schemas, and supporting data platform components. · Estimate data consumption, capacity, and infrastructure requirements, incorporating cloud infrastructure costs into architecture decisions and trade-offs. · Identify and document architectural and operational risks associated with modernizing a customer-facing production platform, and design appropriate mitigation strategies. · Ensure the cloud-native architecture addresses performance, security, scalability, resiliency, recoverability, compliance, and data residency requirements. · Understand system scheduling, integrations, and dependencies across the platform and incorporate them into planning and sequencing. · Serve as a technical point of contact for questions and decisions related to the modernization effort’s architectural direction. QUALIFICATIONS · Required Qualifications: o BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in data or enterprise architecture, or MS with 3+ years of experience. o High-level knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure) and cloud-native architecture. o Demonstrated experience assessing legacy, on-premises systems and designing modern, cloud-native architectures. o Demonstrated experience planning or supporting large-scale modernization initiatives for production, customer-facing platforms. o Experience designing production data platforms for performance, scalability, resiliency, and recoverability. o Experience analyzing complex system dependencies, integrations, data flows, and scheduling requirements to inform architecture and modernization decisions. o Demonstrated experience working with PostgreSQL, including relational data modeling, schema design, and query development. o Advanced proficiency in Python or Go, with experience developing production-quality code for data platforms or backend systems. · Preferred Qualifications: o Experience designing backend data platforms that support data delivery to external or enterprise clients. o Experience evaluating technology and architecture options, including build-versus-buy decisions and alternative modernization approaches. o Experience evaluating infrastructure requirements and costs to inform cloud architecture decisions and design trade-offs. o Familiarity with enterprise security, compliance, and data governance requirements, including SOC 2 and data residency considerations. · Skills & Competencies: o Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design architectures that engineering teams can implement and maintain effectively. o Excellent written communication, with the ability to produce clear, actionable architecture and technical design documentation. o Sound technical judgment, with the ability to translate business and platform requirements into pragmatic architecture without overengineering or underspecifying solutions. o Ability to move effectively between architecture and hands-on implementation, translating designs into working solutions in collaboration with engineering teams. o Ability to mentor team members and help develop the architectural judgment of less experienced engineers. o Ability to independently lead complex, large-scale architecture initiatives and drive technical decisions through ambiguity. About AccuWeather AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones. AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally. Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation b ecause of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Want to be part of a team that keeps AccuWeather's critical database environments reliable, secure, performant, and available around the clock for a global audience? We are looking for an experienced Database Administrator with deep hands-on expertise in SQL Server and PostgreSQL who can take ownership of the health and reliability of our production database systems while helping modernize our database infrastructure for the future. Reporting directly to the Data Architect II overseeing AccuWeather’s data architecture function, this role will serve as a hands-on database administration expert responsible for the day-to-day operational health and long-term reliability of AccuWeather's database environments. Key responsibilities include performance tuning and optimization, backup and recovery, high availability, security and access management, capacity planning, monitoring and maintenance, and incident and root-cause analysis. The DBA will work closely with the Data Architect and engineering teams to establish strong database standards, improve operational practices, and proactively address reliability and performance concerns. This role will also play an important part in the migration of select backend databases to cloud-based environments, helping assess existing workloads, plan and execute migrations, optimize databases for their target environments, and ensure appropriate performance, security, resiliency, and recoverability throughout the transition. It is an opportunity to combine deep database administration expertise with meaningful involvement in the continued modernization of AccuWeather's data infrastructure. We are open to hiring candidates to work from our global headquarters in State College, PA, USA, or remotely. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES · Administer SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases end to end — performance tuning, query optimization, indexing strategy, and execution plan analysis. · Design, implement, and regularly test backup, replication, and disaster recovery procedures for databases, ensuring high availability across production environments. · Manage database security — roles, permissions, access control, and auditing. · Monitor and plan for database capacity — storage growth, connection pooling, and resource allocation. · Manage database version upgrades, patching cycles, and configuration tuning. · Perform routine database maintenance — index/statistics upkeep, vacuuming, storage optimization, and space reclamation — to sustain performance over time. · Proactively monitor database health and performance, identifying and resolving issues before they affect production. · Manage cloud cost optimization and capacity planning, including license reporting and true-ups, resource forecasting, and optimization of Azure compute spend through Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and related strategies. · Partner with the Data Architect and engineering teams to establish database standards, improve operational practices, and proactively address reliability and performance concerns. · Plan and execute database migrations to the cloud, optimizing configurations for target environments, and ensuring performance, security, resiliency, and recoverability throughout the transition. · Build strong working relationships with engineering teams, communicating database constraints and recommendations in terms they can act on. · Share database expertise and best practices with less experienced administrators and engineering team members. · Performs other duties as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS · Required Qualifications: o BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in data operations or database administration, or MS with 3+ years of experience. o Demonstrated experience as a database administrator with SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, backup and recovery, high availability, security and access management, and capacity planning. o Advanced SQL/T-SQL proficiency, with working knowledge of at least one scripting language (Python or PowerShell) for database automation. o Ability to design and implement monitoring solutions for database health, performance, and capacity. o Experience with, or strong working knowledge of, migrating databases to cloud-based environments (e.g., Microsoft Azure). o Awareness of the monetary costs associated with operational work. o Demonstrated experience mentoring or coaching less experienced engineers. · Preferred Qualifications: o Experience with advanced replication topologies (e.g., multi-region, active-active) for SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL. o Experience administrating, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and performing backup/recovery of database systems (e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure SQL or similar systems). o Familiarity with, or willingness to grow into, modern cloud data platforms, including Databricks and Snowflake. Experience with CI/CD automation. o Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) for building, orchestrating, and maintaining reliable data ingestion and loading pipelines. o Experience participating in structured post-mortems and root cause analysis for significant incidents. o Familiarity with data governance practices (quality checks, lineage documentation, access control). · Skills & Competencies: o Strong systems thinking; understands how failure in one system cascades to others across a portfolio. o Sound judgment balancing database performance, availability, security, and cost trade-offs. o Excellent written communication; operational health reports are usable by data consumers and leadership without interpretation. o Sound judgment distinguishing proximate causes from systemic causes when writing postmortems. o Mentoring and coaching skills; able to develop the operational judgment of less experienced engineers. o Ability to lead complex incident response and drive systemic reliability improvement independently. ABOUT ACCUWEATHER AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones. AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally. Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Want to be part of a team that keeps real-time weather alerts and observations flowing reliably to hundreds of millions of people? We are looking for a Software Developer III who displays a deep interest in and passion for backend architecture, mentorship, and problem solving; someone who likes to own real-time systems end to end and help other engineers grow. Reporting directly to the Manager, Data Engineering, this position will be responsible for leading the design and development of backend software that processes real-time weather data flows — including alerts, observations, and AccuWeather Alerts — powering AccuWeather's consumer and enterprise products. Serving as a software development expert, you will build new processing services and workflows to improve the reliability and scalability of our real-time weather platforms, while owning monitoring and data quality standards for the systems you lead. You will demonstrate expert skill across relational databases, functional programming, and cloud technologies, mentor less experienced developers, and collaborate with peers and stakeholders in an Agile-based environment, to deliver best of breed real-time infrastructure that caters to a global audience. We are open to hiring candidates to work from our global headquarters in State College, PA, USA, or remotely. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES · Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex backend software processors that ingest, validate, transform, and distribute real-time weather data. · Own end-to-end backend data flows from source system through validation to production database, including monitoring, operational efficiency, and incident response. · Design and implement new processing capabilities and enhance existing processors to support new weather data providers, data formats, business requirements, and product features. · Apply advanced backend and software development skills to build data processing software that's easily tested, deployed, and monitored. · Own design and implementation of database schemas and supporting SQL objects used by backend processing applications. · Define the reliability, performance, and scalability bar for backend processing software in your domain, and hold new development to it · Drive technical alignment across software engineers, data operations, product managers, and business stakeholders on the approach for complex processing solutions, resolving disagreements on technical direction. · Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve complex software defects, production issues, and operational incidents affecting weather data processing systems. · Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to other software developers through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and engineering best practices. · Mentor less experienced Software Developers in relational schema design and backend data processing practices. · Define documentation standards for software components, processing workflows, and operational procedures, ensuring the team's collective knowledge stays current and usable without you in the room. · Evaluate emerging technologies and development practices for team-wide adoption, making the call on what gets brought into the processing platform and what doesn't. · Contribute to technical planning and the continuous improvement of development processes, quality assurance practices, and team workflows. QUALIFICATIONS · Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. - 5+ years of experience designing and developing backend software or distributed systems. - Advanced experience developing software using Scala or Java, with experience applying functional programming concepts. - Expertise in developing and deploying applications in cloud environments such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. - Deep experience with relational database architecture, including schema design, SQL, and performance optimization at scale. - Proven experience architecting solutions for structured and semi-structured data formats such as XML and JSON, RESTful APIs, and regular expressions, across multiple external data providers. - Experience leading software design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision-making. · Preferred Qualifications: - Experience designing or developing event-driven, distributed, or message-based systems. - Experience working with weather, environmental, geospatial, or other Earth science data. - Experience integrating data from multiple external providers or APIs. - Proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server. - Proficiency developing applications on Microsoft Azure. - Experience providing technical guidance to other software developers. - Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced development environment. · Skills & Competencies - Communicates at a high level across verbal and written communication with internal and external teams; leading training and informational sessions. - Proficiency and demonstrated experience in communicating technical concepts, software designs, and data processing workflows to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex technical challenges and develop effective software solutions. - Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, including the ability to investigate and resolve complex production issues. - Ability to provide technical guidance and share knowledge with other team members. ABOUT ACCUWEATHER AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones. AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee. AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally. Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.. COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEO is the Law poster here and its supplement here. The pay transparency policy is available here. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.