Senior Principal Software Architect, DataEdge Strategy – Architecture

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About the role

  • Senior Principal Architect shaping Rocket Software’s DataEdge data integration, cloud, and AI platform strategy. Driving cross-product architecture, shared services, and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical strategy across the DataEdge portfolio
  • Partner with Product Management to define platform strategy and translate business priorities into a shared, cross-product technical roadmap
  • Build alignment across Product and Engineering teams while balancing product needs with portfolio-wide platform objectives
  • Collaborate with architects across DataEdge, other Rocket portfolios, and business units to identify shared platform opportunities and drive architectural alignment
  • Drive reusable services, APIs, frameworks, and common platform capabilities while consolidating overlapping technologies
  • Define cloud-native strategies for deployment, configuration, scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence
  • Lead adoption and integration of AI platform capabilities, intelligent automation, MCP, and agentic systems
  • Identify and prioritize AI capabilities that create measurable customer value and competitive differentiation
  • Represent the DataEdge technology vision internally and externally
  • Monitor industry trends, analyst perspectives, emerging technologies, and competitive offerings to shape portfolio strategy and investment priorities
  • Shape DataEdge’s role within the broader data, analytics, and AI ecosystem
  • Collaborate across Rocket portfolios and external technology partners to deliver integrated platform capabilities and differentiated customer outcomes
  • Promote industry standards, open APIs, and interoperability frameworks
  • Coach teams on AI-enabled development, including AI-assisted coding, testing, documentation, modernization, and delivery
  • Lead architecture reviews, communicate decisions and tradeoffs, and mentor senior technical talent across the portfolio

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience
  • Proven experience defining architecture and technology strategy across multiple enterprise products or platforms
  • Strong expertise in LLMs, agentic systems, MCP, retrieval architectures, enterprise AI integration, and responsible AI patterns
  • Demonstrated delivery of AI-enabled product capabilities and adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices
  • Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern software delivery
  • Experience building shared platforms, services, APIs, or reusable frameworks and leading technology consolidation
  • Successful partnership with Product Management on strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and investment decisions
  • Proven ability to lead cross-product initiatives, resolve competing priorities, and influence without direct authority
  • Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, including with executive leaders
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers or architects
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IS, or related technical discipline
  • Ability to comply with information security responsibilities
  • Willingness to travel 5%-10%

Benefits

  • Minimal travel requirement of 5%-10%
  • Equal opportunity and commitment to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace
  • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with physical and mental disabilities
  • Background and reference checks as part of the hiring process
  • AI-powered tools and technologies to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and impact
  • Continuous learning and responsible use of AI

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDistributed SystemsKubernetes

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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