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The Role Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced mainframe Software Engineer to join our Development team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with making quality improvements to our equity compensation application. The selected candidate will provide technical leadership on a globally distributed team using a Mainframe technology stack. This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical problem or request.

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five or more (10 plus) years of experience in the job offered or five or more (10 plus) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage or stock plan services systems and application development. Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (6) years of experience in the job offered or three (6) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage and stock plan services systems and application development.

Use business and technical knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex stock plan services software applications on a mainframe platform running under a Z/OS environment.

• Your Demonstrated Expertise ('DE') in defining, developing, and leading an interactive team to implement scalable application solutions
• Your DE in mainframe application development, automation, and support, utilizing COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL, VSAM, MQ-Series, and SQL
• Your DE in mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including ways to reduce I/Os, CPU Time, MSUs, and MIPs, using Strobe, iStrobe, and Platinum Detector
• Your DE in mainframe application development including: file format and comparison using File-AID; version management using Endeavor; debugging and unit testing using Intertest and Abend-AID; and job scheduling using Control-M

• Performing as a full stack engineer within an Agile team, including requirements gathering, development, and end-to-end testing
• Defining, developing, and leading interactive team to implement application level architecture, giving due consideration to application scalability and extensibility, and conformance to established standards
• Providing on-site and on-call support as needed and acting as a subject matter expert as part of a cross-functional crisis management team
• Developing applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division
• Recommending development testing tools and methodologies and reviewing and validating test plans
• Resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies and making recommendations and improvements to avoid them in the future
• Collaborating with multiple layers of management to share approaches, develop solutions, and improve capabilities throughout the organization
• Leading collaborative sessions and ceremonies with stakeholders and providing guidance and feedback to team members
• Being responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables
• Planning and conducting system testing
• Developing comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems
• Establishing full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms
• Being responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget
• Advising on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects
• Planning and coordinating project schedules and assignments for multiple projects
• Acting as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues
• Providing technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives
• Performing independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several initiatives
• Developing original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts

This group develops applications and provides support on a mainframe environment, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ-Series, SQL, and VSAM files. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.

Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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