Lead Software Engineering

Job Title - Lead - Software Engineering

The Purpose of This Role

Software Developer & Design for Workplace investment (WI) technology team will be responsible for the development of applications/ framework using Java, Angular with database oracle along with maintenance activities . This technology group provides superior development and maintenance support to the overall Fidelity WI organization.

The Value You Deliver

• You will own parts of product and will be handson in developing/maintaining the capabilities
• You will collaborate with other tech leads in the product to translate business and architecture roadmap into software modules
• You will provide pro-active consulting in the definition phase about the non-functional requirements and its financial implications.
• Provide technology alternatives to business problems and clearly explain the advantages, problems and side-effects of alternatives.
• Ensure operability of technical architecture by partnering with the Enterprise Architects, project teams and taking responsibility for the technical design dispensations
• Manage technology obsolescence of the product and aligning to enterprise directives.
• Identifying opportunities to bring emerging technologies/solutions to deliver innovative solutions to meet business objective

The Skills that are Key to this role

• Extensive experience in Java, JavaScript, Frameworks like Spring Core/MVC, Testing frameworks like JUnit/Mockito/Spring Test, Tools like Swagger/Git/Jenkins/uDeploy/Docker etc
• Deep knowledge of Azure/AWS offerings and well versed with cloud based solutions design/architecture
• Must have experience in designing Micro services and performance fine tuning of services
• Understands and applies fundamental design principles behind a scalable, low latency, high throughput distributed application
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns and their application
• Champions best practices for various aspects of engineering excellence like CICD, design reviews, code reviews, unit testing, test automation across technology stack
• Hands-on experience with Angular, Oracle, Serverless, SOA and Data integration tools

The skills that are good to have for this role

• Ability to plan and work with geographically spread-out teams.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies.

How your work impacts the organization

The Workplace Investing (WI) Platform technology group within Fidelity Investments is tasked to develop and maintain of technology solutions supporting Fidelity's Defined Contribution (DC) business. The platform serves plan sponsors in the configuration of their DC plans and operates in a mixed-technology environment (Java, Spring, Angular, Oracle) across multiple tiers (web server, app server, DB).

The Expertise we’re looking for

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar subject.
• 6+ years of experience in information technology.
• Financial services experience, preferably in Retirement domain
• Certification in relevant technologies is preferred.

Skills/Knowledge and experience:

Operating Systems          : Unix/Linux and shell scripting (optional)

Languages                           : Java/J2EE

Azure cloud service REST Web Services (mandatory)

UI Technologies                : JavaScript, Angular

Application Server           : Tomcat/TC Server

Database                           : Oracle, PL sql exposure is a must

Databases                           : Good understanding and experience on RDBMS (mandatory)

Methodology                    : Agile

Others                               : Prior experience on large scale IT Transformational Projects ( Migration, Modernization) is plus

Location:  Bangalore

Shift timings: 11:00 pm - 8:00pm