Lead Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description:

Job Description:

 

Fidelity Investments Workplace Solutions (WS) organization is looking for a Senior Mainframe developer with 6–9 years of hands‑on experience in developing, enhancing, and supporting enterprise‑grade mainframe applications. The candidate must have strong expertise across core mainframe technologies including COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, CICS, and associated IBM mainframe utilities to support equity compensation products for the Global markets. 

 

The Purpose of Your Role:

As a Senior Mainframe developer, you will be working directly with both technical and business stakeholders to translate a vision and designs into sustainable business solutions. You will be responsible for the development and enhancement of complex software applications, ensuring they are built with quality, consistency to our standards, performance and responsive to the device accessing the application in mainframes.

 

The Skills that are Key to this role

 

· Hands on experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, MVS, Endeavor ISPF, TSO, CICS, Control-M, and basic IBM utilities

· Proven problem-solving abilities and analysis of complex mainframe programs is a must skill.

· Must be experienced in maintaining systems in the MVS mainframe environment.

· Must have worked in Mainframe application development.

· Must be able to negotiate, influence and work with business peers and management.

· Must have experience of working in an agile environment

· Ability to understand the requirements and come up with an optimal end-to-end solution

· Must possess strong analytical skills to review the production problems reported

· Able to do unit testing

· Must have hands on exposure to AI tools and worked in modernization/Requirement creation projects

 

 

Behavioral Skills

· Candidate should possess highly proficient written and verbal communication skills in the English language

· Candidate should possess exceptional stakeholder management skills

· Connect with business partners on critical requirements and work with different teams to derive the solution

· Must be capable of fixing complex processes quickly and learn through independent research.

· Must take the end-to-end ownership of all the tasks and work independently

· Should be a good team player

 

Desired Value-Add Skills

· Knowledge of Micro-Services Architecture concepts and emerging patterns such as APIs, Web Services (REST/SOAP).

· Knowledge in Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot

 

 

The Skills You Bring

· Ability to collaborate with other technical and business experts in the team

· Your sophisticated skills in data intensive application development, data integration, and data pipeline design patterns on a mainframe platform.

· Proven ability to learn and experiment with new technologies and patterns

· Passion to follow modern test driven and automation driven software development methodologies
 

The Value You Deliver

· Keeping the focus of the work in terms of Customer obsession.

· Partner with technical leads to make clear, simple, and technically sound design decisions.

· Embrace continuous improvement regarding application quality and stability.

· Strong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery.

· Being candid and honest in all discussions to ensure the best outcomes.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Would be working in one of the Squads in in Fidelity Stock Plan Services (SPS) . SPS provides recordkeeping and brokerage solutions to help employers and employees manage their equity compensation plans. Through our continuous investment in innovation, focus on simplifying the customer experience, and working hard every day to protect our customers and earn their trust, we are committed to helping every employer and employee maximize the value of their equity programs. SPS is part of Workplace Investing (WI) helps our customers save and invest through workplace retirement savings plans, build lifetime relationships with customers, and provide employers with cost-effective, integrated employee benefit solutions. WI serves customers online, over the phone, and through a nationwide network of investor centers. WI is also committed to helping drive employee retirement readiness by delivering leading-edge financial solutions to employers, including recordkeeping, cash management products and services and personal advisory services (PAS).

 

The Expertise we’re looking for

 

Education and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar subject.

· 6+ years of experience in development work in Mainframe technology.

· Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain

· Certification in relevant technologies is preferred.

 

Skills/Knowledge and experience:

· Operating Systems : Mainframe

· Languages : COBOL,CICS, JCL (work experience is must),Good to have understanding of distributed technology.

· Database : DB2, NSP, VSAM, exposure to Oracle DB

· Methodology : Agile

· Others : Prior experience on large scale IT Transformational Projects ( Migration, Modernization) is plus. Hands on exposure in AI tools for analysis, requirement creation projects

 

Location: Bangalore / Chennai

Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00pm

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology