Senior Software Architect

As a Senior Software Architect, you will be responsible for driving innovation, technology and solutions that support our product strategy, and architecture across a technically diverse application portfolio. You'll be empowered and encouraged to bring forth new ideas that further empower the product and the team while showcasing your passion for emerging technologies and best practices.,

• Define application architecture for new and innovative software solutions in a lean agile environment. Create high level design documents, technical descriptions and architectural diagrams.
• Architect, design and develop secure, scalable, low latency, high throughput solutions with an agile team.
• Help customer facing teams identify, pursue and close strategic business development opportunities, drive add-on business within existing projects/products, and envision technical strategy for products in portfolio.
• Help define and refine existing corporate architectural standards and guidelines. Participate in architecture group meetings and activities.
• Help identify and execute improvements and simplification opportunities with business systems.
• Present to audiences at all levels of the organization.
• Maintain effective relationships with product management and business development groups.
• Lead code reviews, quality reviews for team with a continuous improvement outlook.
  
  The Senior Software Architect will provide technical leadership in the architecture, design, and implementation. You are an Agile problem solver and has an appetite for building and delivering innovative software solutions, that delivers excellent business value to our customers. The role requires deep technology expertise, advanced analysis skills, a proven ability to work collaboratively with product and business development teams on product and solutions technical strategy in a communications setting., Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development and at least 3 year as an architect.
• Experienced in leading consensus on complex proposals within engineering groups, as well as with other teams and outside partners.
• The ability to work with senior product management on strategic initiatives that have architectural aspects.
• Capability and comfort in presenting to executive-level staff.
• Deep knowledge of Java, JSON, RESTful Web APIs, JavaScript, Webservices, and Linux environment.
• Excellent understanding of architecture and design patterns, coding principles and guidelines.
• Working knowledge of Java open source frameworks (e.g. Spring, Hibernate).
• Experience with relational databases, data storage and principles.
• Experience building software that is robust, resilient and capable of providing high performance under heavy load.
• Good experience on unit testing and other methods to ensure high quality code releases.
• Must have exceptional analytical skills and strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
Preferred Qualifications: Education: Travel Requirements: <5% minimal travel

Thousands of companies around the world depend on Rocket to solve their most challenging business problems by helping them run their critical infrastructure, business processes, and data, as well as extending the value of these assets to take advantage of cloud and mobile computing, advanced analytics, and other future innovations. From the clothes we wear to the cars we drive, Rocket solutions power the back-end systems that thousands of brands interact with every day. At Rocket, software has always been about people-not just ones and zeroes. We're people solving problems for other people, and we strive to treat our customers, partners, and fellow Rocketeers with humanity. Founded in 1990, Rocket Software is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with 31 offices around the world.