Senior Software Architect
Remote
United Kingdom
Full Time
24-04-2025
Job Specifications
Department: Software Engineering
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Remote, UK
Description
The Senior Software Architect will play a strategic, high-visibility role within Hazelcast. You will serve as a thought leader and technology evangelist for Hazelcast, influencing architecture across our ecosystem, our customer base, and the broader developer community.
This is a cross-functional, hybrid role combining technical depth, community engagement, architectural leadership, and strategic collaboration.
What You’ll Do
Technology Evangelism & Thought Leadership
Represent Hazelcast at industry conferences, meetups, webinars, and via online channels (e.g. blogs, podcasts, social media).
Advocate for Hazelcast in the Java ecosystem and champion its capabilities across caching, compute, and data streaming.
Drive thought leadership through technical articles, benchmark reports, and community contributions.
Customer and Partner Engagement
Collaborate with Field Solutions Architects to design and document Architectural Blueprints for real-world use cases.
Support strategic customer engagements, helping define best practices for usage, deployment topologies, and performance optimization.
Forge strong relationships with key application framework vendors: Spring, Quarkus, Micronaut, Vert.x.
Platform Expertise & Technical Authority
Build and maintain deep expertise in all subsystems of the Hazelcast platform.
Establish yourself as an industry-recognized expert in Distributed Caching, Real-Time Compute, and Data Streaming.
Ideally participate in the Java ecosystem via the Java Community Process (JCP) and influence relevant specifications.
Hands-on Development & Debugging
Build reference applications and proof-of-concept solutions using Hazelcast.
Demonstrate proficiency in Java (with working knowledge of Python, .Net C#, Go, C++).
Possess a strong understanding of JVM internals, especially around garbage collection, memory management, and runtime tuning.
Be capable of debugging code across the Hazelcast stack when needed (core contributions not required).
Benchmarking & Industry Validation
Design and execute external benchmark reports to validate Hazelcast performance and scalability for industry consumption.
Ideally take ownership of the open source Hazelcast Simulator Project.
Cross-functional Collaboration
Work closely with internal stakeholders including Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Field Teams to align product vision with real-world applications and customer needs.
What You Have
10+ years of experience in software architecture or senior technical roles, ideally with experience in distributed systems, high-performance computing, or data platforms.
Proficiency in Java, including deep understanding of the JVM.
Solid knowledge of Python for automation, analysis, or prototyping.
Strong experience with Cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, and Serverless platforms.
Excellent communication and public speaking skills, with experience representing companies or products at industry events.
Deep familiarity with modern application frameworks (Spring, Quarkus, etc.).
Experience working with product, engineering, and field teams in shaping and delivering product capabilities.
Proven ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on levels.
Prior experience contributing to open-source projects or standards bodies (e.g., JCP).
Some familiarity with the Hazelcast platform or similar technologies (e.g., Apache Ignite, Redis, AWS ElastiCache, Oracle Coherence, Kafka, etc.).
Experience writing technical whitepapers or benchmark reports.
Benefits
25 days annual leave + Bank holidays
Group Company Pension Plan
Private Medical Insurance
Private Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
About the Company
Hazelcast is a leading software provider powering mission-critical applications that move the economy. Hazelcast Platform is the foundational architecture providing core capabilities for AI and critical applications. With a revolutionary approach, Hazelcast Platform combines distributed compute, in-memory data storage, intelligent integration, and vector search to simplify application development, deployment, and maintenance. The platform is relied upon by many Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, e-commerce, logi... Know more
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