DataEdge Platform Architect — AI & Cloud-Native Leader

Rocket Software; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive workplace

Accommodation for disabilities

Comprehensive onboarding

Job summary

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to define the DataEdge platform strategy and drive AI-enabled modernization across distributed, cloud, and mainframe environments. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Support, and leadership to align roadmaps and investments with customer and business goals.

The role emphasizes building reusable services and APIs, guiding cloud-native deployment, and advancing security and observability while mentoring senior engineers.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven architecture and technology strategy leadership across multiple enterprise products or platforms.
• Deep expertise in cloud-native architecture, containers, Kubernetes, distributed systems, and modern software delivery.
• Experience with AI-enabled product capabilities and enterprise AI integration.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills, including with executive leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define the DataEdge platform strategy and translate business priorities into a shared, cross-product technical roadmap.
• Build alignment across Product and Engineering teams, balancing product needs with portfolio-wide objectives.
• Collaborate with architects across DataEdge and Rocket portfolios to identify shared platform opportunities and drive alignment.
• Drive reusable services, APIs, frameworks, and common platform capabilities.
• Define cloud-native deployment, configuration, scalability, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Lead the adoption and integration of AI platform capabilities, intelligent automation, MCP, and agentic systems across the DataEdge portfolio.
• Partner with Product teams to identify and prioritize AI capabilities that create measurable customer value.
• Represent the DataEdge technology vision internally and externally; monitor industry trends and competitive offerings.
• Shape DataEdge within the broader data, analytics, and AI ecosystem with Rocket portfolios and external partners.
• Promote adoption of industry standards, open APIs, and interoperability across environments.
• 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.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture strategy

LLMs

AI integration

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

APIs / frameworks

Cross-product leadership

Executive communication

Education

BSc in CS/Engineering

Tools

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Architect to define the DataEdge platform strategy and drive AI-enabled modernization across distributed, cloud, and mainframe environments. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Support, and leadership to align roadmaps and investments with customer and business goals.

The role emphasizes building reusable services and APIs, guiding cloud-native deployment, and advancing security and observability while mentoring senior engineers.