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Job Description Summary:

The Software Engineer-III designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware.

The ChangeMan developer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs the ChangeMan ZMF product, primarily written in Assembler utilizing z/OS and associated components such as ISPF, REXX, VSAM, DB2 and CICS. Responsibilities will include both maintenance and development of new product features.

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Programming, conducting code reviews, and testing software as needed, ensuring quality of deliverables

• Execute various forms of testing – unit, system, regression, integration, performance, volume

• Work with support in diagnosing, reproducing, and resolving customer issues.

• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain.

• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management

• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal direction

• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks

• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and meets quality standards

• Participate in internal projects and other work as directed

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Required Qualifications:

• 5-10+ years of software engineering experience

• Expert in Mainframe assembler programming

• Knowledge of IBM z/OS internals, storage, and file systems (VSAM, zFS etc.)

• Experience in Problem diagnosis, dump reading and debugging (with IPCS a plus)

• z/OS utilities, JCL and REXX

• Software vendor experience strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• DB2 experience

• CICS experience

• ChangeMan experience

Travel Requirements:

0-10%

• Job Family Group: Engineering

• Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering

• Job Profile Name:Software Engineer III

• Employee Type: Individual Contributor

• Job Level: P3 (Career)

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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.

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: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com. 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, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Thousands of companies around the world depend on Rocket to solve their most challenging business problems by helping them run their critical infrastructure, business processes, and data, as well as extending the value of these assets to take advantage of cloud and mobile computing, advanced analytics, and other future innovations. From the clothes we wear to the cars we drive, Rocket solutions power the back-end systems that thousands of brands interact with every day. At Rocket, software has always been about people—not just ones and zeroes. We’re people solving problems for other people, and we strive to treat our customers, partners, and fellow Rocketeers with humanity. Founded in 1990, Rocket Software is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with 31 offices around the world.