Principal Systems Analyst

Fidelity Investments; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Principal System Analyst to blend investment management with technical expertise. In this hybrid role based in Boston, you will drive strategic decisions and lead product delivery. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring alignment and fostering an agile culture, while leveraging your knowledge in technology solution delivery and quantitative research.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above; CFA/CFP designation is a plus.
• 6+ years of experience in technology solution delivery.
• Proven experience in leading high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Defining and communicating the team’s mission and roadmap.
• Anticipating and prioritizing client needs.
• Collaborating with Technical Leads to enable team growth.

Skills

Data-focused approach

Agile mindset

Product backlog management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or Finance

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Job description

Job Description:

The Purpose of This Role

As a Principal System Analyst in Quantitative Research and Investments Technology, you blend investment management and technical expertise with a passion for delivering results. You are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the team mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps, and resource requirements, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on specific product features. You will ensure alignment on the what and when work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable team members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

Locations we are Hiring -Boston, MA, Merrimack, NH, Smithfield, RI, Jersey City, NJ

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree (or above) in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Mathematics or Finance related field; CFA / CFP designation or post-graduate degree in finance or a related field a plus
• 6+ years of proven experience in end-to-end technology solution delivery
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining dynamic products and solutions.
• Financial services experience, preferred.
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred.
• Experience in Asset Management industry is preferred.

The Value You Deliver

• Defining, refining, and communicating the teams’ mission and roadmap to empower and establish team and partner support and alignment.
• Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team
• Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria
• Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments
• Measuring performance against established objectives that deliver on agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• Collaborating and coordinating with Technical Leads and Scrum Masters to establish team capacity and capability and enabling team member growth, development, and learning.
• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
• Scaled up ideas which would further business objectives and capabilities

The Team

You work in partnership with the Quantitative Research Investments stakeholders, other Squad Leaders, Scrum Master, and Technology Leaders aligned to your team. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you sustain and evolve our innovative agile culture.

The Skills You Bring

• Take a data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, and prioritize to improve value delivered
• Grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and optimally communicate these
• Have deep understanding of the industry landscape around Quant research space with focus on creative solutioning approach to build quantitative investing platforms
• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams
• Continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
• Establish and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work multi-functionally across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach
• Intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
• Committed to developing a balance of technology and non-technology skills to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers
• Proven experience with minimum viable product definition and product backlog management
• Adept at detecting scope changes and raising issues

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.