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Rockwell Automation · 6 hours ago

Senior Software Architect, Data Platform - Plex

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on enhancing productivity and sustainability for manufacturers. They are seeking a Senior Software Architect for their Data Platform to design and develop next-generation solutions while improving existing analytics platforms, collaborating with various teams to ensure cohesive system architecture.

HardwareIndustrial AutomationSales AutomationSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and evolve solutions for the existing data platform to support consistent and scalable system architectures

Define and champion best practices for data platform usage through reference architectures, engineering enablement, hands-on coding, and documentation

Collaborate with product management to identify high-value AI solutions and provide reference architectures and best practices around the implementation of these solutions

Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to define multi-quarter technical roadmaps aligned with organizational strategy

Lead technical design reviews and provide guidance on system architecture and interface design across services within the domain, while contributing directly to key implementations

Partner early in project planning with PMs and EMs to anticipate complexity and define technically sound solutions

Establish clear domain boundaries and service contracts to evolve out of a monolithic legacy architecture

Ensure all designs and implementations meet enterprise security, performance, and compliance standards

Prototype new tooling or approaches to de-risk architectural changes and validate proposed frameworks, often taking first-pass ownership of early iterations

Actively align with other architects across application, platform, operations, and quality teams to ensure cohesive system architecture

Participate in cross-domain initiatives to identify and address technical debt and architecture misalignments at scale, including direct contributions to shared tooling and platform components

Qualification

Data platform architectureSQLNo-SQLContainer technologiesData orchestration toolsAgile developmentDesign patternsSecurity best practicesCross-domain collaborationTechnical roadmapsPrototyping

Required

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Years of Relevant Work Experience

Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening

Preferred

Typically requires 8+ years of relevant experience in software development or architecture

Experience working in agile teams in a Continuous Delivery model

Demonstrated understanding of design patterns, principles, and frameworks

Demonstrated understanding of security concepts and best practices

Demonstrated experience and working knowledge of SQL and No-SQL datastores

Experience with full technology stack, from UI to DB

Experience with the following: container technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), messaging platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Azure Service Bus), data orchestration tools (Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow, Spark, Databricks), Azure cloud