Lead - Software Engineering

Job Description:

Job Tittle - Lead - Software EngineeringThe Purpose of the Role

The Fidelity Health Technology Group (FH) supports the recordkeeping and administration of Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision plans) as well as the Health Savings and Reimbursement Account plans on behalf of Fidelity’s corporate clients, their employees and retirees. The Technology associates on the FH Platform team interact with Business partners as well as Systems partners who have responsibility for client-facing channels such as NetBenefits®. The development teams are located across USA and India. Team size is 150+ resources across IT and Product organized into highly motivated team who develop and deliver using Agile Methodology.

The Fidelity Health Technology Group (FH) Team is looking to fill an exciting and important position on its build and support team. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be a senior member, encouraged to supply to the technical leadership and center of competence within the FH team.
How will your work impact the organization

• Contributing to the FH team of developers and Tech leads with specific emphasis on sound fundamental development methodology.
• Providing leadership on project development policies, procedures, standards and strategies.
• Participating in the FH team’s effort to improve the efficiency and quality of the entire development process.
• Actively monitoring and troubleshooting technical issues within live production systems, ensuring smooth operation by quickly identifying and resolving problems
• Collaborating with development teams to implement fixes, and maintaining system stability through proactive monitoring and preventative measures

The Expertise we are looking for

• 9-12 years of technical development experience at a Lead level.
• Bachelor’s Degree and above in IT preferred
• Strong understanding of system architecture and underlying technologies (e.g., databases, web servers, APIs).
• Proficiency in SQL and Java (Spring framework).
• Excellent knowledge of REST concepts and developing REST API’s using Spring boot with Tomcat
• Good understanding of Cloud concepts
• Smart analytical skills to derive meaningful inferences from data sets and then apply those inferences to resolve business challenges.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Understand business problems, seek right solutions to tackle the problem and break it down into easy-to-follow action items for the team.

The Skills that are key to this role

• You excel in a collaborative environment taking on new challenges
• Your communication with peers and leaders is clear and effective
• You help provide technical leadership and direction to a dynamic global team
• You are willing and excited to lend your voice and opinion to the discussion
• You love to take initiative to tackle a problem and get the job done

The Value You Deliver

• Owning the team in technical guidance and mentoring junior/new team members.
• Coordinating and leading research into new technologies independently, as part of a team and with the Architecture team to make judgement and recommendations for future releases.
• Contributing to a teamwork environment by actively participating in peer code reviews, design reviews and being available to help others when needed.
• Providing and taking leadership taking business requirements and translate them into detailed designs, consider the best strategy to ensure design meets performance, security, usability, and reliability and scalability requirements

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Category:Information Technology