Principal Digital Assets Engineer

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Builds secure, scalable, resilient cloud-based microservices using modern software development practices. Designs and implements REST API clients and services, exchanges asynchronous messages between services, and maintain data, using PostgreSQL. Writes automated unit and integration tests, packages software using containers, coordinates builds using Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines, and prepares services for deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for divisional initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) developing scalable and resilient back-end solutions for RESTful microservices or asynchronous mechanisms, using SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka, and Spring Boot framework.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Digital Assets Engineer (or closely related occupation) developing scalable and resilient back-end solutions for RESTful microservices or asynchronous mechanisms, using SNS/SQS, Apache Kafka, and Spring Boot framework.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing and developing Java RESTful Web services for enterprise applications using Java, Spring Boot, J2EE frameworks, and Messaging services -- JMS or Apache Kafka; delivering solutions on Cloud based Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms and incorporating CI Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for consistent deployment across development, QA, staging, and production environments using Jenkins pipeline.
DE testing frameworks (JUnit and Mockito) and performing integration testing using Spring; and ensuring adherence to coding standards and improving overall code maintainability using Sonar and SonarQube frameworks.
DE collaborating with enterprise Cloud, architecture, and product teams, to build enterprise-standard Java applications on the Cloud using AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, GIT, and Jenkins.
DE writing and optimizing queries and performing operations in relational and non-relational databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL) using migration tools (Liquibase); and ensuring seamless integration into application development processes, using Java within development, test environments, and production systems.

Responsibilities

Defines enterprise-level digital architecture strategies.
Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division.
Writes and executes unit tests necessary to ensure an application or technical environment meets requirements.
Performs unit and integration tests.
Builds reliable software that can withstand unreliable environments.
Builds scalable, resilient, Cloud-based systems aligned with the company’s long-term strategy.
Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on digital technology initiatives.
Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan installation of a new system or modification of an existing system.
Confers with data processes or project managers to obtain information on limitations or capabilities for data process projects.
Develops and oversees software system tests and validation procedures, programs, and documentation.
Advises senior management on technical strategy.
Mentors junior team members.
Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts.