Remote Senior Principal Software Engineer - Automation & AI

Rocket Software

Hartford (CT)

Remote

USD 124,500 - 168,075

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited Vacation Time
Health and Wellness coverage
Life and disability coverage
401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings

Job summary

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to guide the automation portfolio for enterprise workloads across mainframe and hybrid cloud environments. This leader will shape architecture, drive modern DevOps practices, and collaborate with product, sales, and customers to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role demands hands-on development and strategic vision, mentoring distributed teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise roadmaps.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in software engineering/technical leadership.
  • Deep knowledge of automation, workload orchestration, and DevOps.
  • Experience architecting hybrid cloud and mainframe platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain automation solution architecture demonstrating capabilities and value.
  • Direct requirements and backlog alignment with vision and product direction.
  • Evaluate and recommend streams to address future use cases and differentiate offerings.
  • Lead technical debt assessment and resolution; mentor global engineering teams.

Skills

Automation technologies
Workload orchestration
DevOps practices
z/OS architecture
Programming languages (Java, Python,Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

HLASM (z/Assembler)
CI/CD pipelines
API design

Job description

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to guide the automation portfolio for enterprise workloads across mainframe and hybrid cloud environments. This leader will shape architecture, drive modern DevOps practices, and collaborate with product, sales, and customers to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

The role demands hands-on development and strategic vision, mentoring distributed teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise roadmaps.

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