What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Architect position at Digital Realty?
Position Title
JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Software Architect – Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
Location:
Dallas, TX | Austin, TX
Your Role
As a Senior Software Architect – DCIM, you will lead the architecture and design of Digital Realty’s next-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform. This platform powers the monitoring, control, and optimization of critical infrastructure across our global data center footprint.
In this role, you will define the technical vision for a secure, highly scalable, cloud-native DCIM platform built on Microsoft Azure. You’ll collaborate closely with global engineering teams, product management, infrastructure partners, and senior leaders to shape the long-term technology strategy and ensure the platform delivers reliable, real-time operational insights at global scale.
What You’ll Do
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.\
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team working together to meet the changing needs of our global customers.
You’ll join a supportive, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work, collaborate across teams, challenge how things are done, and turn ideas into action. We’re committed to your growth and offer meaningful development opportunities so you can build a long, successful career with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn’t just a priority at Digital Realty — it’s fundamental to everything we do. Protecting our people, customers, assets, and data is central to our culture. Every member of Team Digital shares responsibility for working safely and contributing to our mission of Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package and an environment that recognizes and rewards employees for achieving outcomes aligned with the company’s values and business objectives.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Software Architect – Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
Location:
Dallas, TX | Austin, TX
Your Role
As a Senior Software Architect – DCIM, you will lead the architecture and design of Digital Realty’s next-generation Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform. This platform powers the monitoring, control, and optimization of critical infrastructure across our global data center footprint.
In this role, you will define the technical vision for a secure, highly scalable, cloud-native DCIM platform built on Microsoft Azure. You’ll collaborate closely with global engineering teams, product management, infrastructure partners, and senior leaders to shape the long-term technology strategy and ensure the platform delivers reliable, real-time operational insights at global scale.
What You’ll Do
- Define and own the reference architecture for a global, cloud-native DCIM platform leveraging Microsoft Azure.
- Architect and operationalize a high-throughput, low-latency, highly reliable distributed platform supporting real-time monitoring and control at global scale.
- Design data platform architectures capable of petabyte-scale data ingestion, processing, and analytics.
- Architect secure, globally distributed edge services using industrial IoT protocols such as MQTT and Modbus.
- Design and deliver intuitive, omni-channel customer experiences across web, APIs, and internal platforms.
- Define and implement REST, streaming, and event-driven APIs and SDKs for internal and external consumers.
- Develop end-to-end IoT data flows using services such as IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Stream Analytics, Azure Functions, Azure Data Explorer, and Azure Storage.
- Implement real-time alarming, event processing, and analytics in both cloud and edge environments.
- Establish platform reliability through robust monitoring, diagnostics, observability, and automation.
- Lead architectural governance, define standards, drive design reviews, and mentor engineers and architects across global teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 10–15 years of experience designing and architecting large-scale, globally distributed, real-time, secure, cloud-native platforms and products.
- Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and architectures.
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native design patterns.
- Experience building industrial IoT and telemetry platforms with MQTT and edge-to-cloud messaging.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, or similar).
- Strong programming skills in one or more of C#, Python, Node.js, or Go.
- Experience building and integrating AI/ML capabilities into enterprise platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to align technology decisions with business and product strategy.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.\
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team working together to meet the changing needs of our global customers.
You’ll join a supportive, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work, collaborate across teams, challenge how things are done, and turn ideas into action. We’re committed to your growth and offer meaningful development opportunities so you can build a long, successful career with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn’t just a priority at Digital Realty — it’s fundamental to everything we do. Protecting our people, customers, assets, and data is central to our culture. Every member of Team Digital shares responsibility for working safely and contributing to our mission of Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package and an environment that recognizes and rewards employees for achieving outcomes aligned with the company’s values and business objectives.