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Job Description Summary:
The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Product Architect to serve as a visionary and hands-on technical leader for our Workload Automation solutions.The Infrastructure Modernization business unit is seeking a Senior Principal Product Architect 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 modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, or similar) and API design.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- 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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5 years in a principal or senior technical leadership role
- Deep knowledge of automation technologies and DevOps practices
- Experience architecting scalable, resilient platforms for hybrid cloud environments
- Proficient in modern programming languages
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization
- Experience with API design
- Understanding of AI/ML integration for automation
Rocket Software Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, including major plan options and HSA-compatible choices with employer contributions. Health insurance quality is framed as a meaningful component of overall total compensation.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is characterized as generous and usable, and remote-friendly flexibility further supports work–life balance. Paid time off is repeatedly treated as a standout element of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include access to a 401(k) with an employer match and Roth 401(k) availability. Retirement offerings are described as typical for the industry and contribute positively to total rewards.
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What We Do
Rocket Software empowers organizations to create legendary impact in the world through innovation in legacy technologies. With deep expertise in IBM Z, IBM Power, and database and connectivity solutions, Rocket solutions power tens of thousands of global businesses, solving real problems and making real-world impact. With more than 70% of the world’s IT workload running on legacy platforms, Rocket helps companies and public-sector organizations innovate using the technology and data they already have, so they can always be ready for what comes next. Rocket customers include 44 of the Fortune 50, representing industries including Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics, Retail and Insurance. A Bain Capital portfolio company, Rocket is headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
