Job Description

Rockwell Automation is expanding human possibility. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to make the world more intelligent, more connected, and more productive.

We help the world work better and people work smarter and are looking for bright minds to make that happen. The makers, the forward thinkers, the problem solvers. That's where you come in.

As MES/MOM Systems Architect you will join our Software and Control MES Engineering department.

In this role you will be expected to:

• Provide technical vision, leadership and foundational concepts to the MES multiyear technical product roadmaps.
• Drive the transition process from a traditional MES system architecture to a modern, cloud enabled, modular architecture
• Closely collaborate with Business, Engineering and Analytics Platform Architects to translate the business vision into viable concepts and transform existing product capabilities.
• Drive key architectural decisions and design considerations
• Own the responsibility for architecture design pattern from Cradle to Grave
• Collaborate with other architectural teams within RA
• Candidates should be creative and technically skilled who enjoys being part of a dynamic team with a lot of responsibility and the opportunity for personal development.

Essential Functions:

• Works with product marketing and technology management to define customer requirements
• Writes architecture specifications that apply customer and system requirements to create appropriate solutions for Common Communication Platform that are deployed across products, product groups, and in some cases across vendors
• Provides development teams guidance in selecting product implementation technologies
• Works with product marketing & product engineering of technology adaptor teams to evangelize solutions and gain wide acceptance and consistent implementation.
• Works with software development teams to provide work estimates and status reports as requested. Maintains adequate interaction to ensure assigned tasks are prioritized appropriately.
• Keeps informed of new developments in the software engineering and computer engineering fields and disseminates appropriately through the organization. Identifies and participates in technical and developmental training opportunities.
• Researches, considers, and explores new possibilities utilizing the latest technologies and standards. May function as a technical lead of a small to mid-sized development team.
• Maintains technical expertise in field. Keep current through contacts with educational institutions, professional societies, and technical publications.
• Maintain awareness of applicable new technologies, processes, and competitive trends. Develop and maintain relationships with partner companies.
• Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and written. Also able to learn and understand complex control system concepts.
• Effectively teams with others throughout mutually supportive professional relationships, open and direct communications, honesty and respect. Able to cope with and leverage stylistic differences and differences of opinion.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar discipline
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 -12 years of experience in a software product development environment, including 2-3 years of design/architecture experience
• Working knowledge of modern web/mobility technologies, platforms, tools and libraries
• Sound experience on containerization
• Sound experience in Kubernetes/Helm
• Sound expertise around Azure or AWS (ideally multi cloud provider experience) with as preference Azure.
• Infrastructure as code affinity
• Containerization of Java based Enterprise Apps
• Domain driven design
• Java technology stack (JEE, Spring, Camel, )
• CQRS
• API/ API Gateway technologies
• Microservices
• Messaging, Message Brokers
• Kafka, Kafka Connect
• Change data Capture
• On Premise and Cloud integration for IIOT, OPC UA
• Working knowledge of JS, C++ , C#
• Knowledge of multithreading, concurrent system, real-time systems is a plus
• Working knowledge of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure technology or related system is a plus
• Direct experience with the Industrial Automation industry.
• Experienced in both local and global technical development team environments.
• Previous experience in technical team leadership
• This position can be performed remotely from any US location
• The base salary compensation range for this role in Colorado is $136,800- $171,000 USD Annual with an annual target bonus of 8% of base salary.

*This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.

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