Distinguish Engineer - API & Data

Fidelity International; India; In loco; INR 3.500.000 - 6.500.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Fidelity International in India is seeking an API Engineer to join the Data Foundations team within Asset Management. You will deliver API and data-driven solutions that align with business priorities, working closely with engineers, operations, and stakeholders across global teams.

The role emphasizes RESTful API design, large-scale data platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure using AWS and Kubernetes. You will influence architectural decisions and drive efficiency through automation.

Competenze

• 8-10 years of API/software and data engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on software engineering in Java and/or Python, with Java mandatory, building production-grade RESTful APIs.
• Strong data engineering with Snowflake and/or Oracle, including SQL, tuning, and integration.
• Cloud-native design on AWS, containerised apps and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing RESTful data distribution APIs: OpenAPI, versioning, pagination, filtering, rate limiting.

Mansioni

• Deliver technology solutions prioritized by value stream leads.
• Establish relationships within the scrum team and with neighbouring squads.
• Collaborate with operations and business for value-focused solutions.
• Demonstrate understanding of data domain, data lake and reporting principles.
• Influence decisions and choices, embracing diverse ideas.
• Improve productivity by automating tasks and optimizing infrastructure costs.

Conoscenze

Java

Python

REST APIs

OpenAPI

Snowflake

Oracle

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Data Engineering

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Descrizione del lavoro

About the Opportunity

Job Type: PermanentApplication Deadline: 18 November 2026

Title:API Engineer

Department: Data and Investment Analytics Technology, Asset Management (AMP)

Location:India

Reports to: Data and Investment Analytics function

Level: 5

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our Technology team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

The pace of change across our industry as well as with technology is ever increasing. Fidelity continues to invest in modernizing its technology estate and alongside evolving our operations and ways of working. Better understanding and utilisation of our Data estate, and API layers, have a crucial role to play in meeting the needs of our clients and this role joins a global team dedicated to doing just that. The Data and Investment Analytics team operates within the Asset Management Platform and we work closely with the Investment Management, Trading and Middle Office business and operations teams. We are critical to every part of the business and key to providing the best client experience possible, bringing our wealth of knowledge, experience, and innovative thinking to our solutions.

About your role

As an API Engineer within the Data Foundations team, you will:

• Play a key role in delivering technology solutions that meet the needs of the business, as prioritised by the Value stream leads
• Establish strong relationships within the scrum team, and with neighbouring squads and release trains
• Work closely with operations and business representatives to deliver mutually agreed, value-focussed solutions
• Display an understanding of the data domain and modern data lake and reporting principles and best practices
• Influence decisions and solution choices effectively, whilst recognising the strength of a diverse team and different ideas
• Improve productivity through automating routine tasks, decreasing time to deliver continuous improvement initiatives and optimising infrastructure costs through efficient database design

This is a high-impact role where your decisions will shape Fidelity’s ability to innovate and adapt for years to come.

About you

This position requires a self-motivated individual with a solid technical engineering background and influencing skills, who can develop, assist development teams with cloud best practices, troubleshooting, and other technical issues related to the implementation of a customer-facing proposition.

Expected skills / attributes

• 8-10 years of API/software and data engineering experience, with strong hands-on experience across both API development and data technologies
• Strong hands-on software engineering experience in Java and/or Python, with Java experience mandatory, designing and building production-grade RESTful APIs.
• Strong hands-on data engineering experience, with Snowflake and/or Oracle, including SQL, performance tuning and data integration.
• Strong experience designing and running cloud-native solutions on AWS, including containerised applications and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience designing RESTful data distribution APIs: OpenAPI contracts, versioning, pagination, filtering, rate limiting and idempotency, and choosing between API, bulk file (e.g. unloading to cloud storage) and data-share delivery based on volume, latency and cost.
• Strong security engineering: OAuth 2.0/OIDC (client credentials), key-pair authentication, least-privilege RBAC, secrets management, masking/row-level security and audit logging for sensitive financial data.
• Multiyear experience designing and running cloud-native applications on AWS and Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Docker containers, container management platforms and microservices architectures,