Principal Mainframe Software Engineer; COBOL, DB, VSAM

Position: Principal Mainframe Software Engineer (COBOL, DB2, VSAM)
Job Description:

Principal Mainframe Software Engineer

Note:

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced mainframe Software Engineer to join our Development team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with making quality improvements to our equity compensation application. The selected candidate will provide technical leadership on a globally distributed team using a Mainframe technology stack. This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical problem or request.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring The Expertise We’re Looking For Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five or more (10 plus) years of experience in the job offered or five or more (10 plus) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage or stock plan services systems and application development.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (6) years of experience in the job offered or three (6) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage and stock plan services systems and application development.

The Purpose of Your Role Use business and technical knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex stock plan services software applications on a mainframe platform running under a Z/OS environment. The Skills You Bring Your Demonstrated Expertise ('DE') in defining, developing, and leading an interactive team to implement scalable application solutions

Your DE in mainframe application development, automation, and support, utilizing COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ-Series, and SQLYour DE in mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including ways to reduce I/Os, CPU Time, MSUs, and MIPs, using Strobe, iStrobe, and Platinum Detector Your DE in mainframe application development including: file format and comparison using File-AID; version management using Endeavor; debugging and unit testing using Intertest and Abend-AID;

and job scheduling using Control-MThe Value You Deliver Performing as a full stack engineer within an Agile team, including requirements gathering, development, and end-to-end testing

Defining, developing, and leading interactive team to implement application level architecture, giving due consideration to application scalability and extensibility, and conformance to established standards

Providing on-site and on-call support as needed and acting as a subject matter expert as part of a cross-functional crisis management team Developing applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division

Recommending development testing tools and methodologies and reviewing and validating test plans

Resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies and making recommendations and improvements to avoid them in the future

Collaborating with multiple layers of management to share approaches, develop solutions, and improve capabilities throughout the organization

Leading collaborative sessions and ceremonies with stakeholders and providing guidance and feedback to team members

Being responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables

Planning and conducting system testing

Developing comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems

Establishing full project life cycle plans for…