Job Description:
Job Title – PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
The Purpose of This Role
The Principal Software Engineer for the Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology (BRT) team will be responsible for setting up architectural design and driving implementation of applications/ framework using Java/Spring/Spring Boot on Cloud and serverless technologies.
This technology group provides superior development and maintenance support to the overall Brokerage and Fidelity Institutional organizations and is building a high performing real time reconciliation application which uses rules to match trades before settlement.
The Value You Deliver
- Provide thought & technical leadership for the key modernization initiatives in BRT.
- Developing, designing and building solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
- Setting, communicating and reinforcing technical standards with the team
- Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills
- Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.
- 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
The Skills that are Key to this role
- Strong hands-on designing and development skills in Java, Spring, Spring Boot & Cloud (AWS) serverless and container based EKS applications.
- Strong exposure to designing and developing REST based APIs.
- Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems.
- Strong skills on DevOps like authoring and customizing CI-CD pipelines and well versed with enterprise stacks like terracore.
- Ability to reverse engineer existing legacy mainframe platform and come out with designs.
- Ability to technically lead large technology initiatives like Greenfield.
- Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.
- Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.
- Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions
- Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.
- Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions
- Ability to build communication and rapport with partners and stakeholders.
- Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.
- Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality
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
Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology (BRT) enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building and maintaining the technology platforms and products of Fidelity Institutional, Personal Investing and Workplace Investing. BRT has over 2,700 associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The BRT India Team is distributed across Bangalore and Chennai. The current position is for a key initiative that is being driven across BRT.
The Expertise we’re looking for
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.
- 10 – 14 years of experience in information technology.
- Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain.
- Certification in relevant technologies is preferred
Skills/Knowledge and experience:
Operating Systems : Unix/Linux and shell scripting (optional)
Languages : Java 1.7/J2EE (mandatory)
Core Spring (mandatory)
Spring Boot (mandatory)
REST Web Services (mandatory)
Node
Cloud Platform :Hands-on experience in developing Cloud Native applications.Working experience on any of the cloud platforms viz. AWS(mandatory)
Application Server : Tomcat/TC Server
Databases : Good understanding and experience on RDBMS (mandatory)
Methodology : Agile
Others : Exposure to UI technologies is a plus
Prior experience on large scale IT Transformational Projects (Migration, Modernization) is plus
Location: Bangalore
Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00pm