Senior Software Architect - Plex - job 1 of 2

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Position Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Senior Architect to drive the evolution of our API Framework, empowering teams to deliver high-SLA, scalable, and observable APIs. This is a hands-on role, not a whiteboard-only position—you'll be writing code, reviewing implementations, and actively contributing to architectural solutions.

Sitting at the intersection of platform engineering and application architecture, you'll balance strategic leadership with practical execution. You'll design and implement reusable frameworks, guide development teams through complex decisions, and collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams across both on-prem and public cloud environments.

You will report to the Manager, Software Engineering.

Your Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and evolve the internal API framework to support consistent, scalable, and secure API development across product teams
• Define and champion best practices for API platform usage through reference architectures, engineering enablement, hands-on coding, and documentation
• 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
• Drive observability and reliability practices through OpenTelemetry, tracing, and service-level objectives
• 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

Core Competencies:

• Strategic Roadmapping: Assess technical debt and forward-plan domain-level technical strategy with PMs/EMs
• Solution Design & Implementation Leadership: Drive high-level architecture and system interface design across projects in your domain, while contributing working code and proof-of-concept implementations
• Collaborative Planning: Partner early in the project lifecycle with PM/EM peers to define technical paths and anticipate complexity
• Architecture Governance: Maintain reference architectures and architecture decision records (ADRs) for your domain
• Cross-Domain Alignment: Proactively engage with other architects to ensure cohesive design across systems and reduce systemic tech debt
• Security & Compliance: Uphold design quality by enforcing company standards around architecture, security, and performance
• Business Insight: Identify system weaknesses and opportunities to drive business value and service improvements
• Technical Versatility: Comfortable working across cloud, virtualization, infrastructure automation, and application development domains, and stepping into hands-on roles as needed

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• 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.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires 8+ years of relevant experience in software development or architecture.
• Strong background in API Management (APIM), including developer portals, rate limiting, access control, and lifecycle governance
• Proficient in developing scalable APIs using .NET and Go, including strong understanding of JWT-based authentication
• API design expertise: versioning, schema definition, OpenAPI/Swagger, and resilience patterns
• Istio, service mesh, and networking expertise: traffic routing, mTLS, ingress/egress gateways, and security policy enforcement
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and vSphere (VM infrastructure integration)
• OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing for service observability and performance analysis
• ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for centralized logging, search, and operational insight
• GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code using Flux, Terraform, and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Kubernetes and cluster management in production environments

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. 

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.