Principal Systems Analyst

Job Description:

The Role

Do you want to make a difference in our customers' lives and be part of a highly collaborative, cross-functional team committed to delivering an innovative suite of digital capabilities while employing modern technologies creating delightful user experiences within the Fidelity's Core Brokerage Technology Group?

We are looking for a Principal Systems Analyst who will play a key role on our new scrum team supporting various digital initiatives in Account and Customer Experience product area. You will collaborate with business and technology partners to help design, build, test, and deliver exciting new features and enterprise capabilities. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role and empower others.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Working closely with business partners to understand project objectives, use cases and requirements

• Assisting in defining project scope/backlog

• Partnering with solution and infrastructure architects, scrum masters, user experience designers, developers, and quality assurance engineers in proposing and aligning on end-to-end technology solutions

• Diagramming business processes and system workflows

• Documenting specifications describing solutions

• Evaluating designs of existing systems to judge their functionality, effectiveness, reliability, performance, usage, maintainability, and cost of ownership

• Participating in research to identify effective new solutions design

• Usage of tools like postman, Insomnia to run API requests and analyze responses.

• Recommending systems design to achieve requirements

• Tracing specifications to requirements to objectives

• Participating in systems triage of defects

• Working understanding of QA Automation.

• Supervising and advising activities of other team members when required

• Working with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and globally, in a constructive and collaborative manner

• Solving issues and working through ambiguous situations by making timely decisions based on facts, knowledge, experience, and judgment

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience

• 7+ years of strong systems analysis experience with a focus in financial services / brokerage applications

• Experience in software development in an Agile delivery environment and deep understanding of the software life cycle stages

• Keen eye for engineering excellence, innovation, and empowerment

• Proficiency and eagerness to learn new domains

• Adept at analyzing existing systems and applications to advise design of new, modern digital products

• Ability to lead formal and informal presentations in various settings; one-on-one, small, and large groups, with peers, and senior management

• Ability to communicate effectively with and to influence team members and external groups

• Ability to effectively navigate the organization to achieve outcomes

• Proven ability to work on multiple efforts simultaneously

• Strong investigation and problem-solving skills

• Desire to be detailed, highly adaptive and committed to quality

• Strong analytical skills to research and review existing systems and recommend designs

• Effectively communicate technical concepts to the internal partners inside and outside of the Scrum team

• Experience working with design and testing of APIs, database/SQL, Cloud environments

The Team

Fidelity's Core Brokerage Technology group designs, develops, implements, and supports applications for our industry leading brokerage platforms. The team focuses on delivering innovative solutions which meet the needs of our customers. Our systems professionals thrive, with a steadfast dedication to innovation, which cultivates a culture of continuous improvement and significant achievement. We see ourselves as a vital link to Fidelity's customers. This is a fast-paced group that is using ground-breaking technologies to build powerful tools and outstanding user experiences for our customers, using cloud-based technologies.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.