Principal, Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Role

Do you want to make a difference in our customers' lives and belong to a highly collaborative team committed to improving the value and performance of FinComm Customer Communications applications within Fidelity Brokerage Technology (FBT) Group?

Fidelity Investments Core Brokerage Technology Domain is seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join the Production Excellence Squad and work with the FinComm Customer Communications. In this role, you will serve as a full stack engineer and providing support for the R4 Production Responsive Team in the Customer Communication FinComm in Core Brokerage, and tactical execution associated with production activities and strategic priorities in an Agile structure. You will work closely with the Squad Lead and other developers to drive a culture of stability, resiliency & performance as a priority on equal footing with functionality through a proactive R4 Production Responsive discipline leading to zero customer impacting incidents.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor's or equivalent with 10+ years of experience in information technology
• Financial services experience preferred
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and ability to tackle issues by making timely decisions based on facts, knowledge, experience, and judgement
• Demonstrated experience in communicating technical needs and capabilities to non-technical team members and partners
• Provides application support and assists in the identification, isolation, and escalation of problems, delivering quality technology solutions to complex business issues in an Agile environment
• Collaborate with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner
• Ability to quickly learn, adapt, and thrive to meet the needs of a fast-paced, changing environment
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Desire to be detailed, very responsive, and committed to quality
• Ability to navigate organizationally in order to accomplish tasks and work on multiple efforts simultaneously
• Expertise with the following technologies: - z/OS, WebSphere Application Server on z/OS, JCL, COBOL, REXX, DB2, VSAM, and Control-M

• Working knowledge with the following technologies: - GIT, Maven, Jenkins, uDeploy, and JAVA - Ability to troubleshoot and work on production issues. Splunk and Datadog tools
• Devops, Monitoring and cloud computing skills
• Proven ability to solve a variety of problems, typically of complex scope with minimal reference to established policies and procedures
• Hands-on experience in troubleshooting RESTful Web Services with Java technologies.
• Makes decisions based on theory or concepts when solving problems of highly complex or technical nature
• Proven experience in architectural patterns, micro-services, messaging/event driven frameworks and enterprise databases in an Agile environment.
• Practical experience in Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Development (CD) practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot and work on production issues utilizing various tools such as Splunk and Datadog
• Understanding server infrastructure and server certificates
• Ability to promote and foster an environment of innovation to deliver solutions to market which help improve scale and efficiency, business growth and investment performance
• Proven ability to influence others through partnership with the delivery and engineering leads in US, Ireland and India, help advance and support product, delivery and technical practices
• Ability to inspire others by demonstrating a deep passion for technology and financial domain and along with the ability to tap into the creative minds of the engineering team
• Having AWS Certification a plus
• Exposure in Message Oriented Middleware APIs - JMS, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Apache Kafka
• Experience in Agile methodology

The Team

The Product Area's mission is to provide a robust, accurate, reliable, high performing and cost-effective platform that generates, archives, and reconciles non-regulatory and regulatory financial communications which meet all regulatory and compliance requirements and facilitates an exceptional end investor experience through consumers across all Lines of Business. In this dynamic role, you will serve as a full stack engineer supporting the Production Excellence Squad in the FinComm Customer Communications Product Area in Core Brokerage. You will work on stability initiatives including scalability, capacity, performance of FinComm Customer Communications applications. You will work closely with the Squad Lead and other developers to drive a culture of stability, resiliency & performance as a priority on equal footing with functionality through a proactive production excellence discipline leading to zero customer impacting incidents.

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Information Technology