Principal Systems Analyst (people management experience needed)

Fidelity Investments; Galway; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments seeks a Principal Systems Analyst - Player Coach to lead a distributed, multi-time zone team of analysts and own the end-to-end product lifecycle. You will translate Epics into user stories, drive delivery of high-quality solutions, and partner with portfolio engineers, investment architects, and operations to align with strategic objectives.

You will mentor 8 senior analysts, foster a high-performance culture, and strengthen agile practices across the group, ensuring

Qualifications

• 7+ years in business/systems analysis, product owner, and/or product management
• Excellent communication, organization and planning, and presentation skills
• Experience working on distributed and multi-time zone teams
• Proven expertise designing, developing, and maintaining large, complex, and dynamic products and solutions
• Agile, Jira experience, preferably from a planning perspective
• Financial services industry knowledge and experience vital, investment management and/or wealth management domain knowledge needed and financial optimizer experience a plus
• Translate strategic objectives into consumable, actionable plans, that your team or product area can build from
• Derive initiatives and end-to-end workflows that can be broken down into sub-initiatives, epics & stories with well-defined business value and designs
• Track record of building highly engaged, industrious teams with a strong focus on execution and the ability to identify, communicate, and remove impediments
• Effective at running fusions for estimating and planning large efforts that articulate the project demands, assumptions, schedule, and risks, and help advise Product Area roadmap and capacity needs
• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues on solutions, ways of working and tools without formal authority, many times outside of our direct team and in matrixed situations
• Innovative, intellectually curious, and a team player who can continuously improve our culture, process, and tools, and encourage an agile way of working

Responsibilities

• Set overall purpose and vision for the team and act as end-to-end gatekeeper for mission and value creation
• Translate epics into user stories with development teams to deliver timely solutions
• Collaborate with portfolio engineers, investment architects and operations to align with vision
• Lead and motivate a matrixed team across time zones without formal authority

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication

Business analysis

Product ownership

Jira

Education

Bachelor’s degree (or above) in technology or finance related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

Job Description:

The Role Are you interested in joining a highly collaborative, fast-paced, growth area in an organization where you can help drive client outcomes and inspire change while managing a team of approx. 8 talented analysts? Managed Accounts are a growing business in the financial services industry, and Strategic Advisors Technology is seeking a Principal Systems Analyst - Player Coach to help our advisor business grow. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about investment management, problem solving, building great things, and continuously improving, with solid leadership experience.

• The Team
  The Account Management Compute and Review team within Strategic Advisors Technology provides personalized portfolio management to Fidelity’s over 3 million managed accounts customers, providing tax advantages and customizations all with the aim to help customers realize their investment goals.
  As a Principal Systems Analyst & Player Coach , you set overall purpose and vision for the work of a team, serving as the end-to-end gatekeeper of the mission, strategy, product life cycle and value creation. 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 to translate Epics into user stories and deliver high quality, innovative and timely solutions.

Outside of the development team you will work closely with Fidelity’s Strategic Advisors portfolio engineers, investment architects and operations team to understand their vision and challenges.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree (or above) in technology or finance related field
• 7+ years of experience in business/systems analysis, product owner, and/or product management
• Excellent communication, organization and planning, and presentation skills for your team and for executives
• Experience working on distributed and multi-time zone teams.
• Proven expertise designing, developing, and maintaining large, complex, and dynamic products and solutions
• Agile, Jira experience, preferably from a planning perspective
• Financial services industry knowledge and experience vital, investment management and/or wealth management domain knowledge needed and financial optimizer experience a plus
• Translate strategic objectives into consumable, actionable plans, that your team or product area can build from
• Derive initiatives and end-to-end workflows that can be broken down into sub-initiatives, epics & stories with well-defined business value and designs
• Track record of building highly engaged, industrious teams with a strong focus on execution and the ability to identify, communicate, and remove impediments
• Effective at running fusions for estimating and planning large efforts that articulate the project demands, assumptions, schedule, and risks, and help advise Product Area roadmap and capacity needs
• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues on solutions, ways of working and tools without formal authority, many times outside of our direct team and in matrixed situations
• Innovative, intellectually curious, and a team player who can continuously improve our culture, process, and tools, and encourage an agile way of working

People Management

• Experience identifying and acquiring talent needs; and resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Experience and passion for leading, coaching, mentoring and developing team of high performing System Analysts.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance discussions and talent development planning for approximately 8 Senior Systems Analysts
• Promote an inclusive, high engagement team culture focused on quality and continuous improvement encouraging innovation and skill development

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Information Technology