Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Position Description:
Architects and designs complex, scalable, and secure software solutions, setting technical direction for major initiatives and ensuring alignment with enterprise standards. Drives innovation in test automation and software development strategies, introducing advanced frameworks and tools to improve quality and efficiency. Designs, implements, and delivers complex features, and contributes to architecture discussions for components or services. Conducts high-level design reviews and critical code reviews, and sets coding standards and enforces them across teams. Ensures development and designs meet scalability, reliability, security, and performance requirements. Provides technical leadership in the development and integration of APIs and cloud-based services, ensuring robust security, performance, and reliability in distributed environments. Guides the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices at scale, optimizing automation for multi-team code integration and deployment. Proactively identifies risks and develops mitigation strategies for enterprise-level systems, ensuring compliance with scalability, reliability, and security requirements. Conducts critical code reviews and performance assessments, ensuring maintainability and adherence to architectural principles. Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications and conducting studies of alternatives. Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
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 sup-porting 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, Business Administration, 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) developing software/test automation using Java, J2EE, Cucumber Serenity, or Selenium automation frameworks.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Administration, 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) developing software/test automation using Java, J2EE, Cucumber Serenity, or Selenium automation frameworks.
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing and building enterprise applications within a financial services environment, using APIs and RESTful services; and adapting Spring boot micro-service architecture within large-scale services systems with Agile methodologies, using Java 8+ and J2EE technologies – Spring Boot, Maven, AWS Batch, Kubernetes, Oracle PL/SQL and Kafka.
DE building test automation frameworks, using Java and J2EE; developing automated test scripts, using Cucumber Serenity, Selenium automation frameworks, JEST, and Amazon Web Services (AWS); and performing Web service testing, using RestAssured, ReadyAPI or Karate.
DE performing DevSecOps, automated testing, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), using Concourse and Jenkins.
DE performing production installs, solving production issues, and supporting Production Apps -- monitoring Logs using Datadog, and validating Production install.
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Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
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.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a closely related field, plus five years of relevant experience
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a closely related field, plus three years of relevant experience
- Experience developing software or test automation using Java, J2EE, Cucumber Serenity, or Selenium automation frameworks
- Expertise designing and building enterprise applications in a financial-services environment
- Expertise with APIs, RESTful services, Spring Boot microservices, Java 8+, J2EE, Maven, AWS Batch, Kubernetes, Oracle PL/SQL, and Kafka
- Expertise building Java and J2EE test automation frameworks and automated scripts using Cucumber Serenity, Selenium, JEST, and AWS
- Expertise performing web-service testing with RestAssured, ReadyAPI, or Karate
- Expertise with DevSecOps, automated testing, and CI/CD using Concourse and Jenkins
- Experience performing production installs, resolving production issues, supporting production applications, monitoring logs with Datadog, and validating production installs
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
