Mainframe Engineer

Mainframe Engineer

Location: Merrimack, NH or Jersey City, NJ

Must have Financial Services and Brokerage/Trading experience*

The Role

Fidelity is seeking experienced Mainframe engineers with a strong background in Brokerage services to support critical enhancements and maintenance. The main goal of this engagement is to provide comprehensive analysis, application development and seamless integration for securities industry mandated requirements, specifically in Trades Settlements and Mutual Funds processing. The scope of the work extends to provide expert level of troubleshoot and resolve issues related to brokerage transactions and data processing.

The Expertise You Have

10+ years of experience as a day-to-day Mainframe Developer working with Cobol, CICS, DB2, JCL, Endeavor, VSA.

Demonstrated Experience writing COBOL/Native stored procedures

Good understanding and usage of mainframe tools

Experience in the development and deployment of both Batch and Online transaction processing applications

Experience in the Investment and financial Industry would be a plus

Exposure to Distributed Technologies (Nice to have/Willing to learn)

Participation in on-call support rotation required

Working experience in agile development environment

The skills that are good to have for this role

Ability to plan and work with geographically spread-out teams

Proven communication skills

Passion for Stability and Resilience of the platform.

The Value You Deliver

Designing and maintaining architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.

Working with Operations to plan major infrastructure upgrades, to solve issues and to tune the environment for efficient performance and uptime

Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.

Participating in code review and unit testing and providing support on issues in non-prod or production

Communicating and reinforcing technical standards

Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.