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Job Description Summary:

The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to serve as a visionary and hands-on technical leader for our Workload Automation solutions. These solutions are foundational to our customers' ability to automate business critical processes/workflows, ensure predictable batch workload execution, and modernize software engineering, development, and deployment processes. This responsibility requires deep expertise in automation technologies and practices, runbook operational responsibilities, and modern DevOps pipeline strategies. In this role, this person will be a recognized thought leader, driving the evolution of our Automation product lines to meet enterprise mainframe and hybrid cloud environment. You will collaborate with customers, engineering teams, sales, and product management teams to ensure our offerings deliver robust protection, highly reliable, performant, operationally simple, and highly secure.

Key modernization initiatives will include:

• Embedding generative and predictive AI to enhance predictable operational outcomes, build workflow processes, and effectively integrate automation into enterprises. In short, modernize our approach to pan-enterprise automation.

• Architecting scalable, resilient automation platforms that support dynamic workloads

• Developing modern, secure APIs to improve integration with enterprise batch, DevOps, business process workflow ecosystems and observability platforms.

• Streamlining deployment and configuration compatible with modern deployment containerization and provisioning technologies.

• Deliver solutions that automate workflows seamlessly across the entire hybrid enterprise computing stack

Key Role Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the automation solution architecture that demonstrates key capabilities and value that customers require today and may well require tomorrow

• Direct requirements and backlog maintenance to ensure alignment with key vision and product direction.

• Evaluates and recommend key function and value streams necessary to address future vision-based use cases that will allow us to achieve:

• Competitive differentiation

• Market leading (e.g. Gartner Magic Quadrant)

• Full function vs. niche alignment based on strategy dictates

• Build vs. Buy recommendations

• Lead and advise on technical debt assessment and resolution

• Explore and advocate for automation integration opportunities across Rocket and our Partner ecosystems.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering/technical product experience, including at least 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role.
• Deep knowledge of automation technologies, workload orchestration, and DevOps practices.
• Proven experience architecting scalable, resilient platforms for hybrid cloud and mainframe environments.
• Strong proficiency in z Assembler (HLASM), system diagnostics, and the z/OS architecture as well as modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar) and API design.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines as deployed to support modern mainframe software product development
• Familiarity with observability platforms, security best practices, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical vision and roadmap for enterprise-scale solutions.
• Experience acting as a player-coach, mentoring global engineering teams while contributing technically.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams (Product Management, Sales, Customer Engineering).
• Expertise in enterprise workload automation, batch processing, and integration with business process workflows.
• Understanding of AI/ML integration for predictive and generative automation use cases.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for engaging with customers and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a global, distributed development environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

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What Rocket Software can offer you in USA:

• Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
• Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents
• Life and disability coverage
• Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions
• Monthly student debt benefit program
• Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities
• Leadership and skills training opportunities

EOE M/F/Vet/Disability. Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

At Rocket Software, we believe AI is a critical enabler of innovation and productivity. All Rocketeers are expected to actively leverage AI-powered tools and technologies, where appropriate, to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making, and deliver greater impact in their roles. Embracing continuous learning and the responsible use of AI is an essential part of how we work.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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