Senior Principal Software Architect, DataEdge Strategy – Architecture

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🌐 Canada, United Kingdom – Remote

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Rocket Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Rocket Software is a company that specializes in IT modernization and hybrid cloud solutions. They provide a variety of products and services aimed at optimizing mainframe and cloud integration, enhancing security and compliance, and improving IT skills and efficiency through automation and innovation. Rocket Software offers solutions for content services, hybrid cloud, IBM i, security, and efficiency, along with modernization of enterprise applications, data, and infrastructure. Their focus is on helping organizations seamlessly bridge critical business applications and data with AI-powered solutions for increased productivity and decision-making, while maintaining robust security and resilience.

📋 Description

• 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