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Job Description Summary:
Key Responsibilities:Minimum Qualifications:
Advanced Technical Degree in Computer Science or related field
At least 4 to 10 years of experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.
Experience leading customers with mainframe and legacy modernization initiatives.
Knowledge of major Cloud Provider infrastructure and technologies such as AWS Azure GCP Cloud Foundry Docker / Kubernetes.
Experience with analyzing on-premises mainframe environment applications and process to formulate plans for modernizing workloads that achieve Customers desired business outcomes.
Relevant Business and IT Architecture Certifications such as AWS Solution Architect Professional Microsoft AZURE Solution Architect Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) etc.
Fluent in written and verbal English Portuguese; Spanish helpful.
Prior Experience in leading Customer migrations from Mainframe to Rocket Enterprise Server platform Technical Experience in at least one of these areas:
Infrastructure Modernization
Experience with tools and methodologies used to migrate mainframe workloads via hardware/middleware emulation automated code conversion and re-platforming.
Experience with COBOL modernization and porting application code across platforms.
Hands-on technical experience with mainframe non-x86 legacy systems and with technologies such as COBOL JCL CICS DB2 for z/OS IMS DB/DC Assembler PL/I REXX flat/sequential files GDGs and VSAM.
Must have an analytical mind set to analyze test result and facilitate defect resolution.
Experience design/architecting distributed and Cloud environments (target environments) including OpenShift Kubernetes and Containers.
Application Modernization
Strong analysis skills with solid concepts in Architecture and Design. Should have joined projects to refactor complex business applications.
Knowledge of Cloud Computing Containers Microservices and Serverless technology.
Experience with Business Rules-extraction from COBOL/PL1.
Experience architecting high availability resilient fault tolerant systems that utilize load balancing horizontal/vertical scaling.
Knowledge of Webservices Microservices APIs and exposing Application components to alternate platforms.
Process Modernization Complete understanding of software development lifecycle including DevOps toolchains.
Experience configuring automation pipelines in GitHub Azure DevOps AWS CodePipeline Jenkins or similar tools.
Familiarity with agile engineering practices like Test Automation Test-Driven Development (TDD) Continuous Integration (CI) Continuous Delivery (CD) DevOps and Test Data Management etc.
Experience with implementing and operating DevOps and Agile tools/platforms across some part of the development lifecycle.
Ability and interest in travel to our customers around the world as needed.
Commitment to Rocket Core values of empathy humanity trust and love.
Information Security:
Information security is everyones responsibility. A fundamental principle of information security at Rocket Software is that all individuals in the organization have a responsibility for the security and protection of company information and IT Resources over which they have control according to their role.
Diversity Inclusion & Equity:
At Rocket we are committed to an inclusive workplace environment where every Rocketeer can thrive by bringing their full selves to work. Being a Rocketeer means you are part of our movement to continually drive inclusivity diversity and equity in our workforce.
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.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.
As part of our commitment to a safe and trustworthy workplace we include background and reference checks in our hiring process.
Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment please call: or send an email to We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
If you like wild growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll enjoy your career with us!
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