Fidelity

Principal Software Engineer

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14 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, enhance, debug, and support enterprise-grade mainframe applications for equity compensation products.
  • Provide strategic and hands-on technical leadership across multiple mainframe applications and platforms.
  • Oversee day-to-day team activities, mentor junior developers, identify skill gaps, and foster engineering excellence.
  • Translate business requirements into scalable end-to-end technical solutions aligned with strategic goals.
  • Analyze production incidents, identify root causes, and drive permanent resolutions with minimal business impact.
  • Conduct technical reviews and resolve complex system, integration, performance, reliability, security, and compliance issues.
  • Champion automation, modernization, AI-tool adoption, continuous improvement, and operational efficiency.
  • Partner with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to manage expectations and deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Support design, development, testing, deployment, and platform stability across Agile or hybrid delivery models.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a similar subject.
  • 15 years of development experience using mainframe technologies.
  • Extensive hands-on expertise with COBOL, JCL, DB2, VSAM, native stored procedures, MVS, Endeavor, ISPF/TSO, CICS, Control-M, and IBM mainframe utilities.
  • Hands-on exposure to AI tools and experience with mainframe modernization projects.
  • Strong understanding of batch processing, online transactions, relational database design, data integration, and mainframe data pipeline patterns.
  • Experience with large-scale IT transformation, migration, or modernization projects; financial services or brokerage experience is preferred.
  • Ability to lead teams in Agile or hybrid delivery models and apply sprint planning, backlog refinement, iterative development, testing, and automation practices.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, stakeholder management, presentation, and technical leadership skills.
  • Exposure to Core Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, microservices, APIs, cloud integration, automation or scripting, DevOps enablement, ITIL, and performance tuning is preferred.
  • Relevant technology certifications are preferred.

Benefits

  • The role is located in Chennai, with shift hours from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm.

Tech Stack

COBOLIBM DB2JavaOracle DatabaseSpring Boot

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About Fidelity

10,000+ employees

Fidelity Investments provides brokerage, retirement plan recordkeeping, wealth management, and asset management services to individuals, employers, advisors, and institutions, plus online trading platforms and mutual funds and ETFs. It earns fees from managing and administering assets, advisory services, and brokerage transactions. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Boston, it is privately held and administers trillions of dollars for U.S. and global customers.

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