Senior Principal Product Engineer

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.

Evaluate 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., Java, Python, Go, or similar) and API design.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines as deployed to support modern mainframe software product development.
• 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.
• Able to work in a global, distributed development environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Pay

Annual salary range for this position is between $124,500.00 - $168,075.00 gross before taxes.

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.

EEO Information

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.