Fidelity Investments – Leap Program Information Session
Fidelity Investments is excited to be launching our Leap Program for college
graduates. For more than 60 years, Fidelity has distinguished itself among its
competitors as a pioneer of cutting edge technologies that deliver innovative
products and services to our customers worldwide.
This program is designed for graduating seniors who are passionate about
technology and want to accelerate their careers through a six month training
program leading into a career track of software development, systems analysis or
quality assurance. In this robust program, you will have the opportunity to
participate in comprehensive training with a variety of systems while gaining
exposure to senior leaders. You will have a direct impact on the business as you
work on critical projects that shape Fidelity's growth and innovation.
We will be hosting a networking night on your campus soon and would like to
invite you to attend and hear more about this program. This event is open to all
students who are interested in the program including freshmen, sophomores, and
juniors.
School: Virginia Tech
Date and Time: Monday, February 16th 8pm-9pm
Location: McBryde 113
We look forward to meeting you at this event! Please apply through your Career
Services Office via their online job system to be considered.
For More information, please visit our new website for Leap:
http://jobs.fidelity.com/findajob/student/leap/leap.shtml
Fidelity Investments
Software Developer & Systems Analyst - Leap
Position Description
Fidelity Investments is launching an exciting training and development program for new IT graduates. The
Leap program is designed to accelerate the development of recent IT graduates to become best-in-class software
developers or systems analysts with the potential to become Fidelity’s future technology leaders. Participants in
the program will experience an enriched on-boarding process followed by specific technology, business and
professional skills training. The program will start in July and be based in Boston, MA and Durham, NC.
The program offers two specific functional paths followed by a technical project assignment. Participants will
design, develop and test innovative solutions core to the firm’s ability to provide the best products and services
to our customers.
Upon completion of the 6 month program, associates will be placed in a dynamic full-time role in software
development, systems analysis or quality assurance across Fidelity’s diverse technology organization.
Software Development Track
Participants engaged in the Software Development track will acquire knowledge and experience in the areas of:
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Software Development Life-Cycle – focused on systems analysis, design, development, testing and
support of software applications
OO Development using UML, Java/J2EE, C++ and XML
Web application development using IBM’s WebSphere application server and HTTP server, Web
Services and Open Source technologies (Linux, Struts, Spring MVC, Hibernate and iBatis ORM)
RIA, Ajax, RESTFul web services, JSON, XML
Dojo, jQuery, Prototype or other popular RIA toolkits
Flex or Flash development
Database creation, development, and data manipulation using SQL and PL/SQL (Oracle RDBMS)
Quality Assurance – Unit Testing and System Integration Testing
Security – Information Security, Secure Application Development
Systems Analysis Track
Associates engaged in the Systems Analysis track will acquire knowledge and experience in the areas of:
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Business requirements elicitation and specification
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System design specification including UI design
Quality Assurance – Test planning, test case preparation and execution using industry standard tools
Project management for Systems Analysis
Business knowledge acquisition and application to IT projects
Software Development Life-Cycle – focused on business analysis and requirements gathering, project
management, quality assurance and testing, support for design and development
OO Design using UML
Software Development basics including Java, SQL and PL/SQL
Education and Experience
 BS degree in Computer Science/Computer and/or Systems Engineering or Information Technology or
other major with a technical minor/concentration
 Prior technology-related internship experience is preferred
 Hands-on technical experience in application development, databases and/or networking
 Interest in financial services industry
Skills and Knowledge
 Able to break down and creatively solve problems
 Flexible and adaptable at applying skills to different situations
 Eager to learn and continuously improve
 Proactively seeks out new challenges
 Good listener and collaborator
 Effectively copes with ambiguity
 Attention to detail
 Understanding Software Development Lifecycle & OO programming concepts
 Basic Java language skills + foundations of OO design
 Understanding of Relational Databases
 Experience with relational DB access, SOAP or REST services in Java a plus
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services, with custodied assets of over
$2.5 trillion, including managed assets of over $1.2 trillion as of November 30, 2008. Fidelity offers investment
management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to 24
million individuals and institutions as well as through 5,500 financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest
mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the
largest mutual fund supermarket and a leading online brokerage firm. For more information about Fidelity
Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.