Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe

Rocket Software has expanded its EVA agentic AI platform for mainframe systems, introducing new governance and automation capabilities for mission-critical operations. The platform now includes Rocket PlanGuard, a security layer that provides policy controls between AI reasoning and system execution whilst maintaining auditability. According to a Hanover Research study commissioned by Rocket, 81% of financial services IT leaders report significant mainframe skills gaps, whilst 87% believe AI will help address this within two years. EVA enables teams to use natural language to tackle operational challenges across diagnostics, security, batch processing, and application management. The platform connects to z/OS data sources and provides governed access to mainframe resources. Global organisations across financial services, government, insurance, retail, and telecommunications are participating in EVA pilots. The company reports customers can move from installation to actionable insights within days.

Rocket Software named as a Major Player in IDC marketscape(r) for Intelligent Content Services. WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, today announced it has been named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Content Services 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US54137426, September 2026). We believe this recognition highlights Rocket Software's approach to helping enterprises modernize how they manage, govern and access critical content across mainframe, hybrid and cloud environments while building a trusted foundation for AI. As enterprises accelerate AI initiatives, access to trusted enterprise content is becoming critical to turning those investments into business value. Yet, much of that information remains distributed across complex systems and applications that continue to support business operations. By bridging content across mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments, Rocket(R) ContentEdge(TM) helps customers unlock the value of their content by connecting these environments and bringing greater intelligence, automation and governance to content workflows at scale without requiring disruptive migrations. "Most enterprises can't get AI to access their most valuable content, because that content can't simply be moved," said Michael Curry, President, Data Modernization Business Unit, Rocket Software. "It lives across archives, mainframe systems, ERP systems, and records repositories with strict requirements around how that information is accessed and governed. ContentEdge helps make that content available to AI where it already lives - preserving existing access controls and keeping every answer traceable back to the source. We believe this recognition reflects our commitment to helping customers overcome these challenges, particularly for organizations operating in highly regulated environments." "The content services market is being reshaped by AI-driven automation, hybrid cloud modernization, and the need for tighter governance. Rocket Software's recognition as a Major Player in this IDC MarketScape reflects its ability to modernize mainframe-adjacent content workloads while meeting enterprise security requirements," said Amy Machado, Research Director, Content and Knowledge Discovery Strategies at IDC. How ContentEdge Prepares Enterprise Content for AI AI assistants and agents are now consumers of enterprise content alongside employees and applications. For organizations targeting complex AI use cases that depend on unstructured data, this shifts the requirement: information has to be managed and made accessible in ways that support insight at scale, not just storage and retrieval. That is difficult against the reality of most estates - decades of content spread across repositories, archives, and business applications, which leaves AI systems without the reliable, contextual information they need to generate insights, automate tasks, and support decision-making. ContentEdge encompasses Rocket Software's content services portfolio, including Mobius(R), Rocket(R) Cypress, EOS(R), Rocket(R) Content Automation and Audit & Analytics Services. The platform enables enterprises to address these challenges by transforming enterprise content from information stored across disparate systems into a more connected and actionable business asset. Rocket Software continues to invest in helping organizations manage, govern, and derive greater value from enterprise content. ContentEdge combines intelligent content management, automation, information governance, and conversational AI capabilities to help customers modernize content workflows, improve access to critical information, and support compliance requirements while preserving existing technology investments. About Rocket Software Rocket Software is a global technology leader in modernization and a partner of choice that empowers the world's leading businesses on their IT and mainframe modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. Trusted by more than 13,500 customers and 850 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software enables customers to maximize their data, applications, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world. Rocket Software is a privately held U.S. corporation headquartered in the Boston area with centers of excellence strategically located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Rocket Software is a portfolio company of Bain Capital Private Equity. About IDC MarketScape: IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers Frequently Asked Questions What did Rocket Software announce? Rocket Software was named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Content Services 2026 Vendor Assessment. We believe the recognition reflects Rocket's approach to helping enterprises manage, govern and access critical content across complex environments while preparing that information to support AI initiatives. What is Rocket(R) ContentEdge(TM)? Rocket ContentEdge is the evolution of Rocket Software's Content Services portfolio. It's designed to help organizations unlock value from unstructured data and accelerate data modernization across hybrid environments without disrupting existing operations. Why is enterprise content a challenge for AI initiatives? Much of an organization's most valuable content sits across archives, mainframe systems, business applications and records repositories, often subject to existing access, retention and residency requirements. ContentEdge helps organizations make that information available for AI where it already lives, preserving existing controls and avoiding the need to move or duplicate sensitive content. How does ContentEdge help organizations prepare enterprise content for AI? ContentEdge helps organizations connect content across disparate systems and turn unstructured information into a more accessible, governed and actionable business asset. This gives AI-powered applications, assistants and agents access to the reliable, contextual information they need while helping organizations maintain governance, security and compliance. How does Rocket ContentEdge help organizations maintain governance as they adopt AI? ContentEdge helps organizations apply AI to enterprise content while maintaining the governance, security and compliance controls already in place. Capabilities such as built-in redaction, reuse of existing access controls, and in-place data connections help organizations make sensitive content available to AI without unnecessarily moving or duplicating information.

Rocket launches z/Assurance for IBM Z risk & compliance. Thu, 10th Sep 2026 (Today) Rocket Software has launched Rocket z/Assurance, a risk and compliance management portfolio for IBM Z environments. It is aimed at organisations running critical systems on mainframes and across hybrid estates. The portfolio brings together tools to identify vulnerabilities, check security controls, monitor compliance readiness and assess remediation priorities across IBM Z systems. It also covers hybrid environments that include mainframes, reflecting how many large organisations run their infrastructure. The launch comes as security teams face faster discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities linked to artificial intelligence tools. Rocket Software also pointed to longer-term concerns about quantum computing and its implications for cryptography and data protection. A commissioned study by Researchscape highlighted the scale of concern among technology leaders. According to the findings, only 24% of IT leaders were extremely confident in their organisation's ability to address mainframe vulnerabilities over the next year. Portfolio scope Rocket z/Assurance includes a set of products focused on different parts of security and compliance operations in IBM Z environments. These include tools for code-level vulnerability analysis, continuous monitoring of new exposures, visibility into missing security patches, automated policy adherence checks, and reviews of cryptographic inventories and quantum-related exposure across z/OS, z/VM and Linux on Z. The portfolio is intended to give security and IT teams real-time visibility into risk and a clearer basis for remediation decisions. Rocket Software is also positioning the software as a way to produce evidence for audits and broader governance reviews. One part of the announcement concerns planned agentic artificial intelligence functions. Rocket Software said it intends to add AI features to help teams interpret findings, prioritise fixes and access remediation guidance in plain language. The planned addition reflects a broader shift in cybersecurity operations, as suppliers use AI to reduce manual triage while also responding to the security threats the technology creates. In heavily regulated environments such as banking, government and large-scale enterprise IT, the need to show that controls are working remains central to buying decisions. IBM Z systems still sit at the core of many transaction-heavy industries and often form part of wider hybrid environments rather than standalone estates. That makes governance and visibility harder, particularly when security teams must track risk across a mix of older and newer platforms. Rocket Software has long focused on tools for mainframe modernisation and infrastructure software, and the new portfolio fits that position in the market. The aim is to help organisations modernise critical systems without weakening security or governance. Phil Buckellew, President of Infrastructure Modernisation at Rocket Software, outlined how the company views the role of risk visibility in technology decisions. "Modernisation decisions increasingly depend on an organisation's ability to understand and manage risk across its most critical systems," he said. He added: "When leaders have clear visibility into where risk exists and confidence that their IBM Z environments remain protected, security becomes an enabler of innovation and modernisation rather than a barrier to progress. It allows organisations to move faster, make informed decisions, and focus resources where they can have the greatest impact." Rocket Software said 99% of enterprises operate hybrid environments that include mainframes, a point it used to argue that perimeter controls and static checks are no longer sufficient on their own. In that setting, it is targeting teams that need continuous monitoring, patch visibility and evidence that policies are being enforced across core systems. The emphasis on quantum-related exposure also shows how suppliers are broadening the definition of security preparedness beyond today's active threats. For organisations with long data retention periods or regulated records, understanding where cryptographic methods are used has become part of longer-term planning as well as present-day compliance work. The portfolio is designed to connect technical findings to business-relevant risk and help teams decide where to act first across critical IBM Z environments.