Senior Mainframe Engineer (COBOL, Java, Azure/AWS)

The Role

Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to join our CVT team within Stock Plan Services (SPS).

This position will play a critical role in providing a top-shelf service experience for our clients, as well as for our internal partners, while building and maintaining collaborative global relationships with our partners in technology and support organizations.

About the Role

The selected candidate will provide critical systems and business support on a global team using a Mainframe & Distributed technology stack, with an end goal of high availability and client satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Provide critical systems and business support on a global team using a Mainframe & Distributed technology stack, with an end goal of high availability and client satisfaction.
• Support on a critical mainframe environment, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ-Series, SQL, and VSAM files.
• Navigate in an Oracle database environment for triage purposes.
• Debug and reproduce issues in lower pre-production environments.
• Develop comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Interact/influence/negotiate with stakeholders effectively.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software engineering or related field
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with mainframe platforms.
• Demonstrated support on a critical mainframe environment, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ-Series, SQL, and VSAM files.
• Experience in mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including ways to reduce I/Os, CPU Time, MSUs, and MIPs, using Strobe, iStrobe, and Platinum Detector.
• Ability to debug and reproduce issues in lower pre-production environments.
• Knowledge of ETL, Informatica, Java, Python, or other distributed languages is preferred.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with monitoring systems such as CloudWatch, Datadog/Splunk, ELK stack.
• Knowledge of financial services or equity compensation would be a plus.

Qualifications

• Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment while meeting results.
• Knowledge of 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.
• An overriding need to find the underlying cause of things.
• Strong self-starting, analytical, communication, and critical thinking skills.
• Collaborative working style.
• Analytical & detail orientated thought process with the ability to take methodical approach to activities such as problem resolution, designing and solutioning.
• Ability to articulate and explain complex problems or solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

• Ability to interact/influence/negotiate with stakeholders effectively.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational abilities.

Benefits

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model: 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.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time position.