About the role

  • Senior mainframe engineer with expertise in COBOL and DB2, enhancing legacy applications for Fidelity's Stock Plan Services. Collaborating with IT and business teams across projects.

Responsibilities

  • developing and delivering client specific enhancements on legacy application to support plan administration system.
  • play a key role in developing and delivering client specific enhancements.
  • significant collaboration with members of various business and it groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical project.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies and making recommendations and improvements to avoid them in the future.
  • developing applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
  • 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.
  • planning and coordinating project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
  • acting as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
  • performing independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects.
  • developing original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.

Requirements

  • 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 (5+) years of experience in the job offered or five or more (5+) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage or stock plan services systems and application development.
  • 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 (3) years of experience in the job offered or three (3) years of experience as a technical lead in mainframe brokerage and stock plan services systems and application development.
  • knowledge of etl, informatica, java, python, or other distributed languages is a plus

Benefits

  • most roles at fidelity are hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, m-f) in a fidelity office. this does not apply to remote or fully onsite roles.

Job title

Senior Mainframe Engineer, COBOL, DB2, VSAM

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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