Principal Software Engineer (Mainframe and Java)

Job Description:

The Role
Are you looking for an exciting and challenging position that plays a pivotal role in ensuring our clients can feel confident about their major events or production activities? This role offers an opportunity to support a huge number of our Stock Plan Services clients. You will have to opportunity to learn the entire product & technology landscape, and to coordinate, lead and resolve a wide range of problems. If this is something that excites you then here's your opportunity!

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a senior member on the team, expected to contribute to the technical leadership and center of excellence within the Workplace Investing’s (WI) Stock Plan Services group.

Education & Experience

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software engineering or related field
• 10+ years of hands-on experience with mainframe and distributed platforms.
• At least 3 years of technical leadership experience.
• Provide support in a distributed environment, Cloud (Azure), Java, Oracle, K8S, Datadog/Splunk, ETL.
• Provide support in a mainframe environment, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ-Series, SQL, and VSAM files.
• Prior experience providing technical and functional guidance/leadership to the team is a must for this role.
• Experience in designing and building new solutions and enhancing existing systems.
• Experience working in a highly collaborative environment would be a big plus.
• Having business knowledge of Stock Plan Services (SPS) is preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies to support day to day operations.
• Demonstrate ability to form trusted working relationships with business unit stakeholders through collaboration and enhanced effective communications
• Analytical & detail orientated thought process with the ability to take methodical approach to activities such as problem resolution, designing and solutioning.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate and explain complex problems or solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.

The Skills You Bring

• Ability to interact/influence/negotiate with stakeholders effectively.
• Ability to work with minimal direction and significant autonomy
• Strong self-starting, analytical, communication, and critical thinking skills
• Strong interpersonal and organizational abilities
• Collaborative working style
• An overriding need to find the underlying cause of things.

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.