Principal Software Engineer/Developer

About the role

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Position Description

Designs and delivers enterprise-grade, service-side software solutions that support divisional strategy and business objectives within large-scale, multi-application environments. Develops and builds service-side software applications, automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ensures code quality through unit, integration, and API testing, and monitors application health.

Produces software components that enable scalable, maintainable systems aligned with established architectural standards. Contributes to the development of service-oriented and application programming interface (API) based solutions that support system integration, data exchange, and platform interoperability.

Participates in software design, development, and testing activities to support reliable application behavior and operational stability.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participates in architecture design teams.
• Defines and implements application-level architecture.
• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans.
• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables.
• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems.
• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms.
• Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget.
• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects.
• Plans and coordinates complex project schedules and assignments for multiple projects.
• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues.
• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Mentors junior team members.
• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives.
• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) performing full stack software development using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security for backend RESTful APIs, within an Azure cloud environment.

Or, alternatively, Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Software Engineer/Developer (or closely related occupation) performing full stack software development using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, and Spring Security for backend RESTful APIs, within an Azure cloud environment.

Skills and Knowledge

Candidate must also possess

• Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") designing and developing customer facing enterprise Web applications using Java and J2EE technologies (Spring, Struts, Servlets, JSP, and JSTL), Web security technologies (OAuth and SAML), and SOAP/RESTful Web services within the financial services industry.
• Demonstrated Expertise performing Object-Oriented Design (OOD) using Java; developing Web services using Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Security, and Spring MVC; designing and optimizing database queries for Oracle database using advanced indexing, query optimization and transaction management; and implementing Test Driven Development (TDD) and automated unit, integration, and API testing using JUnit, Cucumber and Apache Karate.
• Demonstrated Expertise designing and developing robust middle-tier applications for data aggregation and transformation, leveraging Java middleware and event-driven architectures with integration tools including ActiveMQ and Azure Service Bus (ASB); and deploying scalable solutions on Azure Cloud for high availability and performance.
• Demonstrated Expertise deploying Azure Cloud applications using Jenkins, Maven, Docker, and uDeploy; supporting production applications using log aggregation tools including Splunk and Kibana; and performing application monitoring using Datadog and version control using Git.
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• Fidelity's Onsite Working Model

Additional information

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.