Senior Principal Engineer - Automation & AI Platform

Rocket Software; Montpelier (VT); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation time

Health coverage

401(k) and matching

Tuition reimbursement

Leadership training

Job summary

Rocket Software seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the Workload Automation vision and hands-on development for enterprise automation across mainframe and hybrid cloud environments.

You will guide architecture, collaborate with product management and sales, and mentor global engineering teams to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions with a focus on AI-enhanced automation and observability.

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 and workload orchestration.
• 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.
• 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

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.

Skills

Workload orchestration

Automation technologies

Mainframe / hybrid cloud

z/OS architecture

Java

Python

API design

Leadership

Mentoring

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

HLASM (z/Assembler)

Job description

Rocket Software seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead the Workload Automation vision and hands-on development for enterprise automation across mainframe and hybrid cloud environments.

You will guide architecture, collaborate with product management and sales, and mentor global engineering teams to deliver robust, secure, and scalable solutions with a focus on AI-enhanced automation and observability.