This role has been designed as 'Onsite with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some of the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the Intelligent Edge – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what's next for you.

About The Role

We are seeking an exceptional Software Architect to lead the architectural vision and technical direction of our group. This is a high-impact, senior technical role combining hands-on and leadership responsibilities.

You will be shaping long-term system strategy, driving large-scale architectural initiatives, and guiding engineering teams in building a secure, scalable, and resilient platforms and services, As well as conduct POC's, help resolve critical issues, and serve as last point of technical escalation within your group and domain.

This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence engineers, product leaders, and executives. You will define standards, evaluate technologies, and drive architectural consistency across multiple teams and product lines.

What You'll Do

Architecture & Technical Strategy

Define and own the overarching architecture for mission-critical systems and platform components.
Drive the long-term architectural roadmap, ensuring the system meets stringent requirements for scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and operational excellence.
Design models, frameworks, and patterns that guide the evolution of APIs, data flows, domain boundaries, and service interactions.
Conduct hands-on POC's and evaluate and integrate emerging technologies, architectural trends, and engineering approaches that align with future platform needs.
Establish foundational engineering principles, architectural guardrails, and best practices across teams.

System Design & Engineering Leadership

Lead end-to-end architectural design for complex features, cross-cutting systems, and high-scale service components.
Provide hands-on architectural guidance and support during system design, implementation, and optimization.
Develop architectural models for control-plane systems, configuration management, policy engines, and distributed workflows.
Ensure system designs incorporate strong observability, fault tolerance, security controls, dependency isolation, and operational readiness.
Partner with security teams to design secure APIs, containment logic, and robust securityposture across the platform.

Technical Influence & Cross-Team Collaboration

Serve as a senior technical advisor to engineering leadership, product owners, security leads, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Lead architecture reviews, platform-wide design discussions, and strategic engineering initiatives.
Mentor senior engineers and help build the next generation of technical leaders.
Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and risks at both executive and engineering levels.
Drive alignment across teams to ensure architectural coherence, shared direction, and platform consistency.

Operational Excellence

Champion high standards for reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency across the platform.
Contribute high quality code to the system to set clear quality and standard examples.
Guide teams in designing systems that are resilient to failures, observable by default, and easy to maintain and evolve.
Influence DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure, and cloud-native practices to maximize development velocity and operational stability.

What You Need To Bring

10–15+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience in architect-level roles.
Background with security products or platforms (EDR/XDR, cloud security, network security, or policy enforcement systems).
Proven expertise architecting large-scale systems, distributed platforms, control planes, and service ecosystems.
Expert engineering proficiency with .NET Core and familiarity with its runtime architecture, performance considerations, and advanced patterns.
Deep experience designing API ecosystems across multiple technologies (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.).
Expertise with containerized environments and orchestration systems (Docker, Kubernetes), including production-grade deployments.
Strong systems design skills, including domain modeling, performance engineering, service decomposition, and workflow orchestration.
Strong understanding of security architecture, risk modeling, and secure-by-design principles.

Nice to Have

Experience developing and maintaining SOAR system componants and control planes.
Experience designing or leading configuration systems, policy engines, or management platforms.
Experience with distributed systems at massive scale or in regulated/high-security environments.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud architecture (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Prior experience in technical leadership roles influencing multiple teams or organizations.

Additional Skills

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job Level

TCP_06

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Senior Principal Software Architect