Senior Principal Software Engineer

Rocket Companies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Companies seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead automated workload orchestration and modernization across hybrid cloud and mainframe environments. You will influence product direction, architect scalable platforms, and drive DevOps and security best practices while collaborating with customers, engineering, sales, and product teams.

Ideal candidates bring 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in principal or senior leadership roles, deep automation expertise, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in software engineering with at least 5 years in principal or senior technical leadership.
• 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) and z/OS architecture.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the automation solution architecture demonstrating capabilities customers require today and tomorrow.
• Direct requirements and backlog maintenance aligned with vision and product direction.
• Evaluate and recommend function and value streams to address future use cases for competitive differentiation and market leadership.
• Lead and advise on technical debt assessment and resolution.
• Explore automation integration opportunities across Rocket and partner ecosystems.

Skills

10+ years software engineering

Senior technical leadership

Automation technologies

Workload orchestration

DevOps practices

z/OS architecture

z Assembler (HLASM)

Mainframe experience

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!

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. 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