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Principal Software Engineer
Rocket
Newbury, GBR
Onsite
Discovered 4 weeks ago
COBOLPL/ICC++CompilersRuntimes
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Rocket Software seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead COBOL development and enterprise server replatforming.
The role involves designing, building, and evolving mission-critical infrastructure, influencing architecture, and driving modernization strategies.
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in systems-level software development and expertise in COBOL, PL/I, C, or C++.
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COBOLPL/ICC++CompilersRuntimes
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Job Overview
Rocket Software seeks a Principal Software Engineer to lead COBOL development and enterprise server replatforming.
The role involves designing, building, and evolving mission-critical infrastructure, influencing architecture, and driving modernization strategies.
Candidates must have 10+ years of experience in systems-level software development and expertise in COBOL, PL/I, C, or C++.
Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and implement core components within COBOL development tools, runtime environments, and mainframe replatforming infrastructure.
- Provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams building compilers, runtimes, middleware, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Drive modernization strategies for legacy application ecosystems, including cloud migration, workload transformation, and hybrid deployment scenarios.
- Own complex technical domains end-to-end, from design through production, balancing long-term architecture with immediate product needs.
- Build highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure software used in mission-critical enterprise environments.
- Conduct deep code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor engineers in system-level design and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with product management to shape roadmap priorities and translate customer challenges into technical solutions.
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