Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe, MQ, CICS

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd.; Town of Texas, Northern (WI, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments in Wisconsin seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Mainframe/MQ/CICS domain to support cross-site, active-active infrastructure used by brokerage platforms.

You will join a squad handling MQ, CICS, and DB2 software, contribute to on-call rotations, and collaborate with teams across the organization to prioritize work and deliver mission-critical solutions.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• 2+ years of mainframe application development experience with CICS, DB2 and MQ.
• Exposure to designing, building, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.
• Familiarity with CICS, COBOL, VSAM, MQ, SQL is expected.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain MQ and multi-site infrastructure software used across the brokerage platform.
• Support switching the mainframe sites they are connected to in a mission-critical environment.
• Participate in on-call rotation for all software owned by the team.
• Collaborate with team leads and stakeholders to prioritize backlog and plan major initiatives.

Skills

Agile experience

Mainframe development

CICS

DB2

MQ

COBOL

VSAM

SQL

Education

B.S./B.A. degree or equivalent

Tools

Assembler

REXX

JCL

JAVA

Control-M

Job description

Job Description: Senior Software Engineer - Mainframe, MQ, CICS

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Team

The Mainframe Application Infrastructure (MAI) team is part of the Enterprise Technology group. The MAI team provides common solutions for mainframe brokerage applications as well as general mainframe engineering and consultation services.

The team is responsible for the common infrastructure solutions to support applications that leverage CICS, DB2 and MQ technologies in a two site, active-active environment.

• Production Stability
• Application Scalability
• Engineering Excellence
• Mainframe-to-Cloud Migration Enablement

The team is responsible for application infrastructure software development/maintenance in addition to online (MQ, CICS and DB2) environment configuration and management. The software development responsibilities include development and support of proprietary solutions for communication interfaces, dynamic transaction routing, MQ messaging, multisite operations, file replication and user authorization. Environment management responsibilities include CICS/MQ topology, remote DB2 connection management and configuration for reuse of common cloud enablement solutions.

The Role

You will be part of a squad responsible for MQ and multi-site infrastructure software development and maintenance. This software is used across the brokerage platform to allow switching the mainframe sites they are connected to. This is mission critical software which processes millions of transactions every day.

Additional responsibilities include participation in an on-call rotation for all software owned by the team. You will also work with the team leads and stakeholders from other organizations to help prioritize the backlog and plan out major initiatives.

The Expertise You Have

BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience preferred. 2 plus years of mainframe application development experience which utilize CICS, DB2, MQ. Exposure to designing, building, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.

Familiarity with the following:

• CICS
• COBOL
• VSAM
• MQ
• SQL

Knowledge in Assembler, REXX, JCL, JAVA, Control-M a plus but not required.

The Skills You Bring

You have experience and feel confident working in an agile environment (Scrum and Kanban).

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. You bring your curiosity and excitement; desire to collaborate with team members. Enjoy learning the business behind the applications outside of our own team. Clear written and verbal communication skills.

The Value You Deliver

Collaborating across a wide range of teams within and outside our own organization. Being an excellent teammate developing/deploying software in a fast-paced and highly flexible environment. Continued focus on improving production stability. Forever learning and growing your skillsets to be an active contributor to a well-rounded team.

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.

Certifications: Category: Information Technology

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.

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