Mainframe Application Developer

Job Description:

The Mainframe Application Infrastructure (MAI) team is part of the Enterprise Technology group. The MAI team provides common solutions for mainframe brokerage applications as well as general mainframe engineering and consultation services. The team is responsible for the common infrastructure solutions to support applications that leverage CICS, DB2 and MQ technologies in a two site, active-active environment.

The team’s primary focus areas are:

• Production Stability

• Application Scalability

• Engineering Excellence

• Mainframe-to-Cloud Migration Enablement

The software development responsibilities include development and support of proprietary solutions for communication interfaces, dynamic transaction routing, MQ messaging, multisite operations, file replication and user authorization. Environment management responsibilities include CICS/MQ topology, remote DB2 connection management and configuration for reuse of common cloud enablement solutions.

You will be part of a squad responsible for MQ and multi-site infrastructure software development and maintenance. This software is used across the brokerage platform to allow switching the mainframe sites they are connected to. This is mission critical software which processes millions of transactions every day. Additional responsibilities include participation in an on-call rotation for all software owned by the team. You will also work with the team leads and stakeholders from other organizations to help prioritize the backlog and plan out major initiatives.

The Expertise You Have and The Skills You Bring

• BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience preferred

• 2+ years of mainframe application development experience which utilize CICS, DB2, MQ

• Exposure to designing, building, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.

• Familiarity with the following:  CICS, COBOL, VSAM, MQ, SQL.

• Knowledge in Assembler, REXX, JCL, Control-M a plus but not required.

• You have experience and feel confident working in an agile environment (Scrum and Kanban).

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• You bring your curiosity and excitement; desire to collaborate with team members.

• Enjoy learning the business behind the applications outside of our own team.

• Collaborating across a wide range of teams within and outside our own organization.

• Being an excellent teammate developing/deploying software in a fast-paced and highly flexible environment.

• Continued focus on improving production stability.

• Forever learning and growing your skillsets to be an active contributor to a well-rounded team.

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Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).