Principal Systems Analyst

Job Description:

The Role
Within Asset Management Technology, Strategic Advisors Technology (SAT) is seeking a Principal Systems Analyst to play a vital role in one of Fidelity's critical strategic programs. In this role you will partner with Fidelity business stakeholders to understand their key business drivers and business requirements. This is not just about gathering requirements & running workshops; it's about understanding the 'why' behind them. You will then work with your Development Team and technology counterparts to translate these into user stories and deliver high quality, innovative and timely solutions.
We are looking for a self-driven individual who possesses excellent business acumen and continually strives to advance quality excellence.

 As a member of the systems analyst/product owner team you will contribute to the delivery of new features/functionality that supports the growing Managed Accounts Trading business. You will work closely with other analysts, product managers, squad leads, engineers, and architects to define the right solution. You’ll use your critical thinking skills to develop solutions for the business use cases.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Finance from an accredited college/university and at least seven years demonstrated work experience in Business or Systems Analysis.
• This role requires a dedicated, curious, and passionate Principal Analyst who brings strong skills in the following areas:
• Provide business and systems analysis for an agile scrum team on complex projects.
• Facilitate business discovery and communicate complex business needs into clear actionable systems requirements through research and evaluation of alternative solutions.
• Passionate about understanding user business flows with a proven track record for using this knowledge to create comprehensive analysis proposals and test cases for supporting systems.
• Experience of the Financial Industry (Asset Management) and Trading strongly desired.
• Experience in working with business partners to elicit requirements by running workshops, writing detailed requirements documents
• You can independently run effective requirements gathering workshops with business stakeholders, using a variety of methods to elicit and understand needs e.g. process flows, user journey mapping
• You can conceptualize and capture a problem or feature need and leverage different methods to convey the requirement to engineers and business partners e.g. process models, data models
• You have a strong understanding of principles of good software design and can work with engineers and architects to craft an optimal solution approach
• Proficient in navigating modern technologies, including service-based application tiers, SQL, and API design and validation.      Experienced in data analysis using SQL & can read and interpret data models.
• You can summarize up scope and status to business partners & senior leaders  
• You have strong attention-to-detail and work effectively with developers, business analysts, and system administrators as part of an agile team.
• You have excellent collaboration skills and can work with other analysts in multiple locations.
• You are comfortable with having trade off conversations with business partners.
• You are experienced in coordinating and running User Acceptance Testing (UAT) sessions, along with developing and managing content to support end-user training.

The Team

Due to the breadth and complexity of the Managed Accounts product offerings and complex trading needs, our technology must keep pace with changes in investment markets, trading strategies, and client personalization. The Release and Trading team in Managed Accounts works directly with investment manager and traders using a suite of technologies and digital tools to build solutions. Asset Management Technology (AMT) provides worldwide technology and support to all the Investment Management, Research, Trading, and Investment Operations functions. AMT is an integral partner for Asset Management to deliver innovative, scalable, industry-leading investment tools that enable Asset Managemen