Lead - Software Engineering - Java, Spring, AWS & Kafka

Job Description:

Job Title – Lead - Software Engineering

The Purpose of This Role

The Principal software developer for the CBPT team will be responsible for setting up architectural design and driving implementation of applications/ framework using Java/J2EE on internal and external Cloud.

This technology group provides superior development and maintenance support to the overall Fidelity Institutional organization, in vital core subsystems that provide regulatory books and records information as well as trusted customer information, distributed throughout the organization.

The Value You Deliver

• Provide thought & technical leadership for the key initiatives in CBPT.
• Rapid prototyping on the latest tools & technologies.
• Driving technical vision and initiative with US partners, architects and prototyping, getting buy-in from cross-geography teams
• Developing, designing and building architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
• Setting , communicating and reinforcing technical standards
• Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.
• Taking the business requirements coupled with existing architecture to set a technical vision for features and major components and clearly articulating the evolutionary steps to achieve it
• 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

• Proven development experience on high performance, high throughput, fault tolerant, highly mission critical applications.
• Strong hands-on designing and development skills in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot & Cloud.
• Expertise in rapid prototyping and quick turnaround on developing POCs & POTs. Ability to pick up new skills quickly.
• Knowledge of building and supporting server-side components using REST API and backend SQL /Stored Procedure Components
• Proven experience with sophisticated distributed systems, micro-services, message-based frameworks such as Kafka which can handle high TPS traffic with low latency.
• Hands on experience working with AWS EKS, and AWS managed solutions such as lambda, API gateway, SQS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, IAM roles/polices, datadog etc.
• Experience building and deploying applications in a DevOps environment using CI/CD tools
• Experience in Performance tuning and using tools like Datadog, Splunk
• Experience with Git/Bitbucket Server (Stash), Jenkins, and uDeploy are a plus
• Good exposure to FinOps.
• Developing and deploying 12-factor, containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) API’s to AWS
• 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 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 those 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

Core Brokerage Platform Technology (CBPT) 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.  CBPT is part of the Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology (FBOT) organization and has over 2,700 associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The CBPT India Team is distributed across Bangalore and Chennai. The current position is for a key initiative that is being driven across CBPT.

The Expertise we’re looking for

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.
• 5 – 9 years of experience in information technology.
• Certification in relevant technologies is preferred.
• Financial services - Brokerage Domain exposure.

Skills/Knowledge and experience:

Languages                        : Java 8+/J2EE – middleware development (mandatory)

(Multithreading, Highly scalable, high throughput, fault tolerant systems)

  Core Spring 3.0 (mandatory)

  Spring Boot (mandatory)

  REST Web Services, Kafka (mandatory)

UI Technologies              : JavaScript, Angular 15+

Cloud Platform                : Hands-on experience in developing Cloud Native applications Working experience on                                                                                                                any of the cloud platforms viz. AWS / Azure (mandatory, AWS preferred)

Databases                        : Good understanding and experience on RDBMS (mandatory). SQL and PL/SQL is mandatory

Methodology                   : Agile

Others                               :  Awareness of cutting edge technology such as AI/ML, BlockChain etc. is a plus

   Prior experience on large scale IT Transformational Projects (Cloud Migration, Modernization) is plus

Location: Bangalore

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

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