Principal Mainframe Engineer

Job Description:

PRINCIPAL MAINFRAME ENGINEER

The Role
 

Seeking a Principal Mainframe Engineer with superb mainframe technical skills to develop and maintain high volume production platforms in the WI Strategy, Planning & Advice domain of Workplace Investing Technology.

Our mission is to enable millions of Fidelity customers to better prepare for retirement while delivering outstanding customer experiences.  As part of this effort, you will engage collaboratively with systems and business partners to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions.

You will engage collaboratively with business and systems partners to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions. You are energized and hardworking to learn and grow with us in our digital transformation to build our future cloud platform capabilities to enable millions of Fidelity customers to better prepare for retirement while delivering the outstanding customer experiences.
 

Join our agile teams working in a fast-paced environment, closely partnering with product, architecture, and other engineering teams. We provide mentors to help navigate your role. We offer dedicated time each month to develop new skills and investigate new technologies.

The Team

We are an agile squad that is part of the the defined contribution recordkeeping platform.  Working together and with other squads, we deliver solutions to our customers by aligning the right skillsets to their most critical business priorities.  The work is diverse, challenging, and provides for continuous learning and growth opportunities. 

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 8+ years of software development experience in business critical, enterprise-wide applications

• Mainframe development expertise in COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2 & VSAM

• Knowledge of MQ would be nice to have

• Ability to perform detailed analysis and documentation for maintenance and improvement projects in the batch and online environments

• Deploy and support software releases into production environments

• Employ your data security skills to keep our customers information safe

• You are detailed and thorough with unit, functional and regression testing

• Proven Experience writing COBOL/Native stored procedures is a plus

• Experience in Distributed Technologies (Nice to have/Willing to learn)

• Confidence to think and act strategically, share innovative insights, and offer creative solutions to deliver exceptional user experiences

• Proven strong interpersonal and organizational skills coupled with effective written and verbal communication skills

• Embrace flexibility and shift focus to meet the most pressing customer/client needs

• You bring a growth mentality to work every day as you continue to learn new technologies and skills and seek to share that knowledge with your squad members

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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.