Lead Software Engineer

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer The Purpose of This Role We are seeking a skilled Lead Software Engineer to join our Data Engineering team in Workplace Investing (WI). As a member of the Data Engineering team, you will design, develop, and own scalable, resilient, enterprise-grade solutions that power MDM platform capabilities. Using modern technology stacks and cloud-native architectures, you will build and continuously enhance systems aligned with enterprise software development practices. This role gives you the opportunity to contribute across the full development lifecycle while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Our mission is to enable millions of Fidelity customers to better prepare for retirement while delivering outstanding customer experiences. As part of this effort, you will work closely with systems and business partners to deliver high-quality, innovative software solutions. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will apply your skills across all aspects of various projects, including design, development, and implementation. You should have a strong desire to understand our systems and business, while also providing leadership, guidance, and mentoring to other team members as needed.

We are a development team within the WI MDM platform. By working together and partnering with other teams, we deliver solutions to our customers by aligning the right skill sets to their most critical business priorities. The work is diverse and challenging and provides continuous learning and growth opportunities. The Value You Deliver As a Lead Software Engineer on the MDM Platform Development team, you will help build cloud-native solutions that drive the evolution of our MDM platform. In a culture that values agility and continuous delivery, you will play a key role in building scalable, resilient, and secure applications that meet the demands of a growing client base. You will have the opportunity to apply your mainframe expertise across the full development lifecycle, from analysis and development of mainframe and microservices-based solutions to API integration and deployment on modern cloud infrastructure, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features and enhancements. The Skills that are Key to this role - Technical / Behavioral Deep expertise in the mainframe ecosystem, with a thorough understanding of business workflows, system interdependencies, and the ability to perform comprehensive impact analysis across applications. Hands-on development experience with mainframe languages and technologies, including COBOL, CICS, VSAM, MQ Series, JCL, SQL, File-AID, Endevor, debuggers, and schedulers. Experience in mainframe performance tuning and capacity planning, including identifying ways to reduce I/Os, CPU time, MSUs, and MIPS, using tools such as Strobe, iStrobe, and Platinum Detector. Extensive experience in CICS online environments, including leading detailed impact analysis and conducting rigorous code reviews for complex CICS program changes to ensure system integrity and stability. Exposure to CICS-to-cloud integrations in support of modernization initiatives. Experience working with high-volume, latency-sensitive CICS online regions, ensuring performance optimization and system stability as part of mainframe modernization efforts. Exposure to REST- and SOAP-based services integrated with mainframe systems. Proficiency with the DB2 database management system and database processing concepts. Experience navigating an Oracle database environment for triage purposes. Experience with file formatting and comparison using File-AID; version management using Endevor; debugging and unit testing using InterTest and Abend-AID; and job scheduling using Control-M. Experience deploying and supporting software releases in production environments. Strong knowledge of, and experience with, the overall testing process. Ability to work with business partners to help define