Product Architect Jobs in Texas
Product Architect jobs in Texas are in strong demand, with openings concentrated in enterprise software, energy technology, semiconductor design, and financial services platforms, and opportunities at every level from associate architect to distinguished principal. Austin, Dallas, and Houston anchor most of the hiring, with major employers like Dell Technologies, NXP Semiconductors, and JPMorgan Chase maintaining deep product architecture teams across the state. The most sought-after specializations in Texas are cloud-native platform architecture, embedded systems design, and API and microservices strategy. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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INTRODUCTION
Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD #BroadcomSoftware) delivers cutting-edge on-prem and hybrid software solutions that power mission-critical enterprise systems. Applications running on these platforms support the majority of global transactions and business-critical workloads.
We are seeking a Senior Product Architect to lead the architecture and evolution of the distributed components of CA 7 Workload Automation, including REST APIs, Observability (OpenTelemetry), Web UI, and distributed agent ecosystem.
This role will focus on building and evolving a modern, API-first, event-driven control plane that integrates mainframe scheduling with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise observability tools.
The ideal candidate is a highly experienced architect with strong distributed systems expertise, capable of driving design decisions, influencing multiple teams, and delivering scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with product and customer needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works with architects, development leads, and product management to define and drive the architecture of CA 7 distributed components, including APIs, observability services, agents, and UI platforms
- Defines and documents best practices, architectural standards, and design patterns for distributed systems and application development
- Designs and develops scalable, resilient REST API services and microservices-based components
- Leads architecture for OpenTelemetry-based observability pipelines, enabling real-time streaming of workload events to enterprise platforms
- Partners with stakeholders during early stages of projects to ensure solutions meet business requirements, scalability needs, and performance expectations
- Guides development teams in building high-quality, testable, and maintainable code aligned with modern engineering practices
- Participates in and leads design and code reviews for complex and critical components
- Drives shift-left practices, ensuring early involvement of testing, performance, and security considerations
- Collaborates across global teams to ensure architectural consistency and alignment across distributed components
- Mentors and coaches engineers, helping elevate team capabilities in system design and modern development practices
TYPICAL ROLE DEFINITION
A senior-level professional role requiring evaluation, originality, and ingenuity. Applies advanced concepts, practices, and procedures in software architecture and distributed systems design.
Assignments are broad in nature and require independent judgment. Serves as a technical leader and resource to others for resolving complex problems. May lead cross-functional initiatives and influence architectural direction across multiple teams.
JOB-SPECIFIC AUTHORITY AND SCOPE
- Works independently with minimal supervision
- Defines architectural direction and design decisions without requiring manager approval in most cases
- Influences multiple teams and stakeholders across geographic regions
- Acts as a technical authority for distributed platform components
- Typically has no direct reports but provides technical leadership and mentorship
- Operates with a global scope across engineering teams
- Does not manage a budget
Business Travel and Physical Demands
Travel as required to support industry conferences, customer engagements, and internal events. This includes opportunities to represent Broadcom by demoing and showcasing CA 7 Workload Automation solutions, both in-person and virtually, and acting as a thought leader in the workload automation and observability space.
Office environment - the role is based out of our Plano site. No special physical demands required.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Typically 15+ years of experience in software development or a related field, with significant experience in distributed systems architecture and technical leadership.
GENERAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates high personal integrity and ability to earn trust
- Strong analytical and complex problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels
- Growth mindset with focus on continuous learning and improvement
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and coaching capabilities
- Experience working in Agile development environments
DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong hands-on development experience with:
Java, Spring Framework, and REST APIs
Building and maintaining microservices and distributed systems in production - Experience in:
Observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry or similar)
Event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or similar) - Experience in:
JavaScript and modern UI frameworks (React preferred) - Practical experience with:
CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - Strong working knowledge of:
API design, versioning, and integration patterns
Debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting distributed systems - Familiarity with:
Workload automation concepts and distributed agent systems
Observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, etc.) - Exposure to:
Mainframe systems (z/OS, scheduling) and hybrid architectures is a plus
This role is focused on evolving the distributed control plane of CA 7 Workload Automation, enabling:
- API-driven automation and integration across enterprise systems
- Real-time observability using Open Telemetry
- Scalable management of distributed agents
- Modern web-based user experiences
The Senior Product Architect will play a key role in transforming CA 7 into a modern, hybrid workload automation platform that bridges mainframe and distributed ecosystems while supporting DevOps, SRE, and AIOps use cases.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The annual base salary range for this position is $127,100 - $203,400.
This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.
INTRODUCTION
Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD #BroadcomSoftware) delivers cutting-edge on-prem and hybrid software solutions that power mission-critical enterprise systems. Applications running on these platforms support the majority of global transactions and business-critical workloads.
We are seeking a Senior Product Architect to lead the architecture and evolution of the distributed components of CA 7 Workload Automation, including REST APIs, Observability (OpenTelemetry), Web UI, and distributed agent ecosystem.
This role will focus on building and evolving a modern, API-first, event-driven control plane that integrates mainframe scheduling with distributed systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise observability tools.
The ideal candidate is a highly experienced architect with strong distributed systems expertise, capable of driving design decisions, influencing multiple teams, and delivering scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with product and customer needs.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works with architects, development leads, and product management to define and drive the architecture of CA 7 distributed components, including APIs, observability services, agents, and UI platforms
- Defines and documents best practices, architectural standards, and design patterns for distributed systems and application development
- Designs and develops scalable, resilient REST API services and microservices-based components
- Leads architecture for OpenTelemetry-based observability pipelines, enabling real-time streaming of workload events to enterprise platforms
- Partners with stakeholders during early stages of projects to ensure solutions meet business requirements, scalability needs, and performance expectations
- Guides development teams in building high-quality, testable, and maintainable code aligned with modern engineering practices
- Participates in and leads design and code reviews for complex and critical components
- Drives shift-left practices, ensuring early involvement of testing, performance, and security considerations
- Collaborates across global teams to ensure architectural consistency and alignment across distributed components
- Mentors and coaches engineers, helping elevate team capabilities in system design and modern development practices
TYPICAL ROLE DEFINITION
A senior-level professional role requiring evaluation, originality, and ingenuity. Applies advanced concepts, practices, and procedures in software architecture and distributed systems design.
Assignments are broad in nature and require independent judgment. Serves as a technical leader and resource to others for resolving complex problems. May lead cross-functional initiatives and influence architectural direction across multiple teams.
JOB-SPECIFIC AUTHORITY AND SCOPE
- Works independently with minimal supervision
- Defines architectural direction and design decisions without requiring manager approval in most cases
- Influences multiple teams and stakeholders across geographic regions
- Acts as a technical authority for distributed platform components
- Typically has no direct reports but provides technical leadership and mentorship
- Operates with a global scope across engineering teams
- Does not manage a budget
Business Travel and Physical Demands
Travel as required to support industry conferences, customer engagements, and internal events. This includes opportunities to represent Broadcom by demoing and showcasing CA 7 Workload Automation solutions, both in-person and virtually, and acting as a thought leader in the workload automation and observability space.
Office environment - the role is based out of our Plano site. No special physical demands required.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Bachelor’s degree or global equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Typically 15+ years of experience in software development or a related field, with significant experience in distributed systems architecture and technical leadership.
GENERAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES
- Demonstrates high personal integrity and ability to earn trust
- Strong analytical and complex problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across teams
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels
- Growth mindset with focus on continuous learning and improvement
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and coaching capabilities
- Experience working in Agile development environments
DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong hands-on development experience with:
Java, Spring Framework, and REST APIs
Building and maintaining microservices and distributed systems in production - Experience in:
Observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry or similar)
Event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka or similar) - Experience in:
JavaScript and modern UI frameworks (React preferred) - Practical experience with:
CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
Container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - Strong working knowledge of:
API design, versioning, and integration patterns
Debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting distributed systems - Familiarity with:
Workload automation concepts and distributed agent systems
Observability platforms (Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, etc.) - Exposure to:
Mainframe systems (z/OS, scheduling) and hybrid architectures is a plus
This role is focused on evolving the distributed control plane of CA 7 Workload Automation, enabling:
- API-driven automation and integration across enterprise systems
- Real-time observability using Open Telemetry
- Scalable management of distributed agents
- Modern web-based user experiences
The Senior Product Architect will play a key role in transforming CA 7 into a modern, hybrid workload automation platform that bridges mainframe and distributed ecosystems while supporting DevOps, SRE, and AIOps use cases.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
The annual base salary range for this position is $127,100 - $203,400.
This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.
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Product Architect Job Market in Texas
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Who's Hiring
- Apple24
- Molex17
- Humana12
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)12
- Boston Consulting11
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software181
- Consulting & Professional Services65
- Electronics & Hardware60
- Banking & Financial Services27
- Manufacturing24
What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in product architect jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems engineering, or a closely related technical field
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering large-scale software or hardware product systems
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud in enterprise contexts
- Ability to translate product strategy into technical roadmaps and communicate across engineering and business teams
- Experience with API design, microservices architecture, or embedded systems depending on the industry vertical
- Familiarity with Agile and SAFe delivery frameworks commonly used by Texas enterprise and defense contractors
Product Architect Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a product architect in Texas?
Most product architects in Texas enter through a software engineering or systems engineering background, earning a bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field before advancing through senior individual contributor roles. Texas does not require a state-issued license for product architects in technology, though those working on defense or aerospace systems may need to obtain or support security clearances. Building a portfolio of end-to-end system designs and earning cloud or platform certifications is the most recognized path to landing architect-level titles at Texas employers.
Which companies hire product architects in Texas?
Employers hiring product architects in Texas right now include Apple, Molex, and Humana, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Texas's mix of enterprise technology headquarters, energy sector platforms, and financial services operations means demand is spread across several distinct industry verticals rather than concentrated in a single sector.
Which Texas cities have the most product architect jobs?
Austin, Dallas, and Houston have the most product architect openings in Texas. Austin's concentration of technology company headquarters and semiconductor firms drives the bulk of listings there, while Dallas attracts financial services and telecommunications platform roles, and Houston's energy sector and growing technology corridor generate consistent demand for architects working on industrial and operational systems.
Are there remote product architect jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 28% of product architect openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting the desk-based, collaborative nature of the work. Strategic and platform architecture phases, including roadmapping, design reviews, and documentation, are the most commonly remote parts of the role, while hands-on embedded or hardware architecture work tends to require on-site access.
How can I get hired as a product architect in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry point is a senior software engineer or systems engineer role at a Texas technology company, which gives you direct exposure to architectural decision-making before moving into a formal architect title. Large Texas employers like Dell Technologies and NXP Semiconductors run structured associate and early-career engineering programs that feed into architecture tracks over time. Building a portfolio of open-source projects or internal system designs, earning a recognized cloud certification, and targeting companies with published architecture rotation programs gives candidates without prior architect titles a concrete competitive edge.
Where can I find and apply to product architect jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to product architect jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers actively hiring in the state. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to each one.
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