Job Description:

JOB TITLE

Principal Software Engineer

Location: Westlake, TX
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The Team

The Fidelity Health Benefits Group supports the recordkeeping and administration of health benefits (medical, dental and vision plans) and life insurance plans on behalf of Fidelity’s corporate clients, their employees and retirees. The technology associates on the FHB Platform team interact with business partners as well as systems partners who have responsibility for client-facing channels such as NetBenefits®. The development teams are located across USA and India. Team size is 300+ resources across IT and Product. This highly motivated team works completely on Agile Methodology.

Are you looking for an exciting and challenging position on a fast-growing development team with high visibility? Here's your opportunity!

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a senior member, expected to contribute to the technical leadership and center of excellence within the Fidelity Health group. This includes:

• Providing mentoring to the HCG team of developers and tech leads with specific emphasis on sound fundamental development methodology.
• Providing leadership on project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies.
• Participating in the HCG team’s effort to improve the productivity and quality of the entire

development process

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s Degree (Computer Science or related fields)
• 10-15 years of professional software development experience in a diverse set of distributed application development and middleware technologies such REST/SOAP Web Services, Java 11/17 capabilities, SQL, Test Driven Development, Spring modules including IOC, Batch, SpringBoot along with other core components like oauth2 and security
• 3 – 5 years of technical leadership experience at a senior level.
• Knowledge of software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience working with cloud computing strategies and architecture (Kubernetes, AWS, Amazon EKS, etc)

The Skills You Bring

• You thrive in a team-oriented environment and taking on new challenges
• Your communication with peers and leaders is clear and effective
• You help provide technical leadership and direction
• You are willing and excited to add your voice and opinion to the discussion
• You love to take initiative to solve a problem and get the job done

The Value You Deliver

• Leading the team in technical guidance and mentoring junior team members.
• Coordinating and leading research into new technologies independently, as part of a team and with the Architecture team to make judgement and recommendations for future releases.
• Contributing to a teamwork environment by actively participating in peer project reviews, code reviews, design reviews and being available to help others when needed.
• Providing and taking leadership taking business requirements and translate them into detailed designs, consider the best strategy to ensure design meets performance, security, usability, and reliability and scalability requirements

Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associate for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

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