Senior Mainframe Engineer (COBOL, DB2, VSAM)

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    "jobDescription": "<h2></h2><h2>Job Description:</h2><p style=\"text-align:inherit\"></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) organization is seeking an experienced mainframe Software Engineer to join our Custom Client Solutions team within the Stock Plan Services (SPS) Technology organization. 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version management using Endeavor; debugging and unit testing using Intertest and Abend-AID; and job scheduling using Control-M</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The </span><b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Value</span></b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> You Deliver</span></p><p></p><p></p><ul><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Senior engineer working within an Agile team, including requirements gathering, development, and end-to-end testing</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Defining, developing, and leading interactive team to implement application-level architecture, giving due consideration to application scalability and extensibility, and conformance to established standards</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Providing on-site and on-call support as needed and acting as a subject matter expert as part of a cross-functional crisis management team</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Developing applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Recommending development testing tools and methodologies and reviewing and validating test plans</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Resolving technical roadblocks involving multiple technologies and making recommendations and improvements to avoid them in the future</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Collaborating with multiple layers of management to share approaches, develop solutions, and improve capabilities throughout the organization</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Leading collaborative sessions and ceremonies with stakeholders and providing guidance and feedback to team members</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Being responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Planning and conducting system testing</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Developing comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Establishing full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Being responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Advising on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Planning and coordinating project schedules and assignments for multiple projects</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Acting as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Providing technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Performing independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several initiatives</span></p></li><li><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Developing original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">How Your Work </span><b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Impacts</span></b><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> the Organization</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Develops applications and provides support on a mainframe environment, using COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, MQ-Series, SQL, and VSAM files. 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