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Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives within their COBOL development ecosystem and enterprise application replatforming products. The role requires extensive experience in systems-level software development and a strong background in mission-critical applications, with an emphasis on modernization strategies.
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Job Summary
Provide deep technical leadership across our COBOL development ecosystem and our Enterprise application replatforming products.
Architect, design, and implement core components within our COBOL development tools, runtime environments, and mainframe replatforming infrastructure.
Influence the future of mission‑critical modernization technologies used worldwide.
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Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives within their COBOL development ecosystem and enterprise application replatforming products. The role requires extensive experience in systems-level software development and a strong background in mission-critical applications, with an emphasis on modernization strategies.
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Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Systems-level software development
Mission-critical high-availability software
COBOL, PL/I, C, or C++ expertise
Enterprise-grade tooling and middleware
Modernize legacy application ecosystems
Nice-to-have
Pragmatic engineer balancing ideals and constraints
Long-term maintainability and operational excellence
Evolving legacy systems for the future
Elevating teams through mentorship
Technically rich, complex domain expertise
Key Requirements
15+ years professional software engineering experience
Leadership over complex, multi-team technical initiatives
Experience with mainframe-to-cloud migration
Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or hybrid cloud architectures