Jobs at Rocket Software

Leads customer-facing mainframe modernization engagements, designing and implementing Rocket Software solutions. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, proofs of concept, presentations, code reviews, resource planning, estimation, risk communication, and defect resolution. Works with project managers and customers to deliver complex COBOL, database, cloud, DevOps, and re-platforming initiatives. Requires strong mainframe expertise, analytical problem-solving, communication, and team leadership skills.

Owns end-to-end delivery of mainframe modernization engagements, including planning, migration, integration, testing, cutover, stabilization, and handover. Manages scope, schedule, budget, quality, change, risk, and customer communications across concurrent workstreams. Leads governance, reporting, escalation, and incident follow-up while coaching junior project managers and improving delivery methodologies, templates, and best practices. Requires independent judgment in complex, production-critical customer environments and experience with software implementation or systems integration.

The Senior Principal Product Architect leads the architecture of Workload Automation and DevOps solutions, focusing on automation technologies, hybrid cloud environments, and mentoring teams to modernize software engineering processes.

Sells infrastructure and application software solutions to Global 1000 clients. Builds executive relationships, prospects and leads sales campaigns, develops territory plans, manages Salesforce forecasts, negotiates pricing and contracts, and achieves revenue targets. Acts as a trusted advisor to business and IT leaders while coordinating with sales engineering, marketing, and other teams. The role requires frequent customer engagement, event participation, and 50% travel.

Leads the architecture, design, and implementation of Vertica’s core database engine. Drives innovations across query optimization, distributed execution, storage, concurrency, scalability, and performance using C++. Defines long-term technical strategy, architects complex distributed database features, guides testing, collaborates with customers and cross-functional teams, mentors engineers, and influences product roadmaps. Requires deep database internals expertise, large-scale systems experience, and strong technical leadership.

Supports customer solution development by gathering requirements, estimating services, identifying risks and dependencies, creating SOWs and proposals, and preparing delivery handoffs. Collaborates with Sales, Delivery, Product, PMO, Support, and subject matter experts to develop scalable service offerings and solution recommendations. Participates in customer discovery, presents concepts with senior guidance, maintains service catalogs and estimation models, and contributes to process standardization and continuous improvement.

Own the roadmap connecting ChangeMan mainframe change management with Git-native workflows, VSCode tooling, CI/CD, and platform engineering. Design branching, merge, pull request, GitOps, and trunk-based development models; build a control plane connecting mainframe and open-systems delivery targets; and partner with mainframe teams to maintain synchronization.

Sells infrastructure and application software platforms to Global 1000 clients. Responsibilities include executive prospecting, leading enterprise sales campaigns, developing territory plans, forecasting in Salesforce, negotiating pricing and contracts, managing strategic customer relationships, and achieving revenue targets. The role partners with sales engineers, marketing, and technical teams to position solutions, shape opportunities, and drive profitable growth.

Designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software for enhancements and new products. Builds maintainable, tested, and documented code using C++, Java, React, REST services, Maven, and CI technologies. Applies algorithms, data structures, hardware principles, and software design expertise to solve complex technical problems. Participates in agile ceremonies, estimates work, provides test coverage, and develops domain expertise.

Administers the contract lifecycle by coordinating signatures, filing agreements, entering and validating metadata, maintaining CLM and Salesforce records, monitoring Legal workflows, generating documents, researching contract materials, and reviewing obligations. The role collaborates with Sales, Finance, and Legal to resolve issues, improve standard contracts, and ensure compliance with company policies and legal requirements.

Lead the architecture and development of high-performance C++ parser, compiler-adjacent, and code-analysis systems across Windows and Linux. Design grammars, ASTs, semantic analysis pipelines, and support for languages such as JCL, COBOL, and SQL. Mentor engineers, resolve complex parsing issues, improve portability and performance, and integrate parser systems with databases and downstream platforms. Use Qt, Docker, SQL databases, and AI coding assistants to deliver scalable enterprise software.

Sells enterprise infrastructure and application software to Global 1000 clients. Responsibilities include prospecting, leading executive sales meetings and campaigns, developing territory plans, managing Salesforce forecasts, negotiating pricing and contracts, advising business and IT leaders, and achieving revenue targets. The role requires building executive relationships, managing complex software transactions, collaborating with marketing and sales engineering teams, and traveling 50% of the time for customer meetings and trade shows.

Leads geographically dispersed customer solutions and professional services teams, overseeing solutioning, project delivery, engineering, and operations. Ensures customer engagements are delivered on time, within budget, and at high quality while managing resources, methodologies, profitability, escalations, and continuous improvement. Builds team capability, coaches leaders, standardizes global practices, supports customer training, and partners with business units on customer requirements and product enhancements.

Leads account-based and field marketing strategy for regional sales teams. Develops targeted account plans, executes multi-touch campaigns and events, supports pipeline acceleration and cross-sell initiatives, and uses intent data and AI-driven insights to prioritize accounts. Partners with sales, solution marketing, creative, operations, and external vendors while managing budgets, measuring engagement and ROI, and optimizing programs. Requires travel to five or six key events annually.

Quota-carrying enterprise sales role responsible for territory and account strategy, driving pipeline and revenue for Rocket's Vertica analytics platform. Lead end-to-end complex sales cycles, engage C-level and technical stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional deal teams, run technical evaluations with Pre-Sales, and manage pipeline/forecasting in Salesforce. Travel and partner/channel engagement required.

Leads Rocket Software’s global growth marketing organization, setting strategy and accountability for pipeline, bookings, expansion, and revenue. Oversees ABM, analytics, performance, insights, and MarTech through senior functional leaders; partners with Sales, Product, Customer Success, and Revenue Operations on enterprise go-to-market initiatives. Drives AI adoption, agent-enabled marketing workflows, buyer intelligence, personalization, performance measurement, and investment decisions while advising executives and developing a globally distributed organization.

Own renewal-related financial operations, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, account assignment, and process improvements. Partner with Renewals, Sales, Finance, and integration teams on M&A activities; analyze performance against plans and forecasts; identify trends, risks, and corrective actions; and present insights to management, executives, and the Board. Maintain accurate documentation and support monthly finance cadences and ad hoc analysis.

Architects and develops enterprise Change Data Capture and data integration software across mainframe and distributed platforms. Processes transaction logs, analyzes database internals and binary formats, reverse engineers legacy systems, and resolves performance, reliability, compatibility, and data-integrity issues. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, collaborates on customer escalations, and supports critical production incidents and releases.

Leads a global software and quality engineering organization responsible for enterprise data integration products across mainframe, distributed, hybrid, and cloud environments. Oversees engineering execution, software quality, modernization, customer escalations, operational readiness, innovation, and AI-enabled practices. Partners with product, architecture, and support teams while developing talent, managing performance, fostering accountability, and ensuring reliable delivery of business-critical software.

Manage strategic customer accounts as a trusted advisor, driving product adoption, value realization, retention, renewals, and expansion. Develop success plans, monitor customer health in Gainsight, mitigate risks, lead escalations, conduct executive business reviews, and advocate for customer needs. Collaborate with Sales, Services, Support, Product, Engineering, and Marketing while mentoring peers and improving Customer Success practices. Rocket Mobius experience is strongly preferred.