Job Description:
Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced Agile Engineer to join our new team within Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology tasked with taking our market leading equity compensation platform to a global market. The person will play a key role in defining and executing on a new service oriented architecture built on REST and leveraging API management. This engineer will act as technical lead during the construction, execution and support of a multi year service delivery roadmap following agile development methodologies, modern architecture patterns, and the JAVA technology stack in support of program objectives. This role demands significant collaboration with members of various business and IT groups throughout the lifecycle of a typical project.
Stock Plan Services administers equity compensation programs on behalf of public and private companies offering various compensations programs such as: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, Stock Appreciation Rights and Performance based Awards. Currently SPS services over 1.6M participants employed by over 300 clients and spread out in 150 countries. The business is looking to further expand in the international equity compensation market, focused initially on western European countries and companies based there. As part of this business initiative, we are extending our capabilities to enable a truly global platform.
Primary Responsibilities:
Ownership stake in building, managing and completing an a service delivery roadmap
Champion the effort to create and maintain high quality service documentation
Write concise and clear technical specifications based on analysis of complex business requirements
Coordinate multiple development work streams through integration and ensures architecture is scalable and extensible
Define, maintain and support development environment while adopting industry standard methodologies and tools
Ensures code reviews, unit testing and integration testing is completed efficiently and effectively
Help coordinate the delivery of technical components across internal/external technical teams.
Work closely with business partners and management team in evaluating current systems and making decisions on future development.
Participate in development of long range planning for new projects and facilities.
Provide technical leadership on advice, training and technical support for various projects.
Provide technical leadership to more junior team members of the team
Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree or higher
5-7 years of Java development experience
Investment/financial services experience is highly desired preferably within the equity compensation space
Experience with API Manager tools
Understanding of and experience with Micro-Services Architecture concepts and emerging patterns such as APIs, JAX-RS, REST/JSON
Application development using Java EE, Spring framework
Relational databases like DB2 or Oracle as well as no-SQL databases
Event driver transaction processing using EAI, ESB and messaging patterns using technologies such as WSO2, ActiveMQ, Tomcat etc.
Security integration using oAuth and LDAP
CI/CD tools such as Maven, Git/Stash, Jenkins, Nexus, uDeploy, Docker etc.
Hands-on experience with Azure
Skills and Knowledge:
A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts.
Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment while meeting results.
Curiosity to stay abreast with new and emerging technologies and concepts and to find ways to apply those to business problems.
Plays a key role in resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies
Experience with Agile development methodologies such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming, TDD etc.
Strong verbal and written communications, must be able to actively engage other team members
Understanding of Agile development methodology and exposure to development technique applying Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) and DevOps
Prior experience working with development teams in onshore-offshore model
Certifications:
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
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At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
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Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
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