Senior Principal Product Architect

Rocket Companies

18d•Remote

About The Position

The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Product Architect to serve as a visionary and hands-on technical leader for our Workload Automation and DevOps solutions. These solutions are foundational to our customers’ ability to automate business critical processes/workflows, ensure predictable batch workload execution, and modernize software engineering, development, and deployment processes. This responsibility requires deep expertise in automation technologies and practices, runbook operational responsibilities, and modern DevOps pipeline strategies. In this role, this person will be a recognized thought leader, driving the evolution of our Automation and DevOps product lines to meet enterprise mainframe and hybrid cloud environment. You will collaborate with customers, engineering teams, sales, and product management teams to ensure our offerings deliver robust protection, highly reliable, performant, operationally simple, and highly secure. Key modernization initiatives will include: Embedding generative and predictive AI to enhance predictable operational outcomes, build workflow processes, and effectively integrate automation into enterprises. In short, modernize our approach to pan-enterprise automation. Architecting scalable, resilient automation platforms that support dynamic workloads Developing modern, secure APIs to improve integration with enterprise batch, DevOps, business process workflow ecosystems and observability platforms. Streamlining deployment and configuration compatible with modern deployment containerization and provisioning technologies. Deliver solutions that automate workflows seamlessly across the entire hybrid enterprise computing stack

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering/technical product experience, including at least 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role.
Deep knowledge of automation technologies, workload orchestration, and DevOps practices.
Proven experience architecting scalable, resilient platforms for hybrid cloud and mainframe environments.
Strong proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar) and API design.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools.
Familiarity with observability platforms, security best practices, and performance optimization.
Demonstrated ability to define technical vision and roadmap for enterprise-scale solutions.
Experience acting as a player-coach, mentoring global engineering teams while contributing technically.
Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (Product Management, Sales, Customer Engineering).
Expertise in enterprise workload automation, batch processing, and integration with business process workflows.
Understanding of AI/ML integration for predictive and generative automation use cases.
Excellent communication and presentation skills for engaging with customers and executive stakeholders.
Ability to work in a global, distributed development environment.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

Create and maintain the automation solution architecture that demonstrates key capabilities and value that customers require today and may well require tomorrow
Direct requirements and backlog maintenance to ensure alignment with key vision and product direction.
Evaluates and recommend key function and value streams necessary to address future vision-based use cases that will allow us to achieve: Competitive differentiation Market leading (e.g. Gartner Magic Quadrant) Full function vs. niche alignment based on strategy dictates Build vs. Buy recommendations
Lead and advise on technical debt assessment and resolution
Explore and advocate for automation integration opportunities across Rocket and our Partner ecosystems.