Senior Mainframe Systems Analyst (COBOL, JCL, DB2)

Job Description:

The Role

Seeking a senior Systems Analyst who thrives in an environment using innovative technologies to support and develop our robust recordkeeping platforms and join in our digital transformation journey.

You will engage collaboratively with business and systems partners to deliver high quality and innovative software solutions. You are energized and hardworking to learn and grow with us in our digital transformation to build our future cloud platform capabilities to enable millions of Fidelity customers to better prepare for retirement while delivering the outstanding customer experiences.

Join our agile teams working in a fast-paced environment, closely partnering with product, architecture, and other engineering teams. We provide mentors to help navigate your role. We offer dedicated time each month to develop new skills and investigate new technologies.

The Expertise You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in business critical, enterprise-wide applications
• Experience in communicating technical needs and capabilities to non-technical team members, product owners, and partners
• Robust critical thinking skills coupled with a desire for growth, to learn and to engage with peers in technical and design discussions
• Publishes clear, concise, and detailed documentation
• Passion to provide guidance on standard methodologies and mentoring support to the other Systems Analysts within the team
• Experience performing analysis in Mainframe applications. Able to read Cobol and JCL. Understand DB2 and SQL/PLSQL concepts. Utilizes TSO and related tooling.

The Skills You Bring

• Experience collaborating in a team environment to develop, deploy, and support key applications and features
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, allowing you to interview Business partners to understand project objectives, use cases and requirements
• Strong analytical skills, enabling you to research, document and review existing systems and recommend designs for achieving requirements for self-contained projects within a larger program
• Proficiency in writing of user requirements, updating stories and supporting documentation
• Ability to dig into code and documentation artifacts to diagram business processes and system workflows
• Expertise in collaboration and conveying technical concepts with internal customers, technical team members, and/or other technical contributors across the organization
• Strong organizational skills coupled with effective written and verbal communication skills

The Team

We support the defined contribution recordkeeping platform focused on large development initiatives. Working together and with other squads, we deliver solutions to our customers by aligning the right skillsets to their most critical business priorities. The work is diverse, challenging, and provides for continuous learning and growth opportunities.

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Category:

Information Technology
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

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.

Client-provided location(s): North Smithfield, RI, Merrimack, NH

Job ID: Fidelity-2111034

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-07-23T23:44:34