Lead Software Engineer

Location: Block 1 DT, Chennai India, Bangalore, Karnataka

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description:

Job Title – Lead Software Engineer

The Purpose of This Role

Lead software developer for the Core brokerage Platform technology team will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and upgrading application/framework using Java/J2EE.

This technology group provides superior maintenance support and development to the overall Fidelity Institutional organization, in vital core subsystems that provide asset servicing capabilities throughout the organization.

The Value You Deliver

• Supporting, maintaining, and upgrading application solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.

• Analysis frequently occurring issues and providing temporary and permanent fixes.

• Ensure applications are highly available.

• Setting, communicating, and reinforcing technical standards

• Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.

• Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to troubleshoot issues and to tune the environment for optimal performance and uptime.

• Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.

• Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

The Skills that are Key to this role

• Strong hands-on designing and development skills in Java J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot and Linux Scripting.

• Strong exposure to working with Rest/ SOAP web services, experience in Cloud platform and RDBMS.

• Ability to analyze Tomcat server logs and application logs using Splunk and Datadog.

• Ability to lead and manage large technology initiatives.

• Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.

• Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.

• Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions

• Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.

• Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions

• Ability to build communication and rapport with partners, stakeholders.

• Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.

• Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality

The skills that are good to have for this role

• Ability to plan and work with geographically spread out teams

• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.

• Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies

How your work impacts the organization

Fidelity Brokerage Technology (FBT) enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building and maintaining the technology platforms and products of Fidelity Institutional, Personal Investing and Workplace Investing.  FBT is part of the Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology (FBOT) organization and has over 2,700associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The FBT India Team is distributed across Bangalore and Chennai

The Expertise we’re looking for

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.

• 7 – 10 years of experience in information technology.

• Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain

• Certification in relevant technologies is preferred

Skills/Knowledge and experience:

Operating Systems          : Unix/Linux(mandatory), Ubuntu(optional)  

Languages                           : Java 1.7/J2EE (mandatory)

  Core Spring 3.0 (mandatory)

  Spring Boot (mandatory)

  Mybatis/ Hibernate, JPA (should be aware of at least one)

  REST Web Services (mandatory)

Scripting                               : Linux (ksh/bsh), python(core)

Cloud Platform                 :  Hands-on  experience in developing/maintaining Cloud Native applications, working   experience on the cloud platform  AWS

Messaging                          : IBM MQ, kafka

Application Server           : Tomcat/TC Server

Databases                           : Experience on RDBMS/plsql (Oracle preferred) (mandatory)

Methodology                    : Agile

Others                               :  Prior experience on large scale IT maintenance/support projects is plus

Location:  DLF, Chennai

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

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