Director Systems Analyst - Security Master & Pricing Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Westlake, TX

About The Position

The Director Systems Analyst, Security Master & Pricing Engineering role is a member of the Security Master & Pricing Engineering leadership team and a trusted partner for the Engineering Leaders. This role works closely with the Group Engineering Leader, Group Product Leader, Engineering Leaders, and Product Leaders to shape the product direction, and influence the product team to consider the technical needs of the product as well as the business deliverables. The individual ensures incoming requests and initiatives are well defined and engages the business stakeholders, engineering, and architecture for clarity in design, capacity, planning, and execution. The goal is to allow for predictable, consistent, and expedient delivery once work is taken up by an engineering team. The team is the Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology (BRT) Security Master and Pricing team, supporting one of the key reference data systems underpinning the brokerage platform. They build, support, and enhance the technology that allows business partners to provide the best brokerage experience in the industry.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technology discipline
8+ years, proven professional experience as a Systems or Product Analyst for software solutions
Proven experience with large datasets, data analysis, and Structured Query Language (SQL)
Experience with API driven platforms, REST interfaces and Swagger
Familiarity with mainframe ecosystems and ability to navigate legacy systems, including understanding of COBOL-based applications
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
Ability to take business outcomes, requirements, and regulations and translate to system design and implementation
Understanding of the technology lifecycle, technical debt, and the ability to balance business outcomes with platform stability
Detail-oriented person with a real passion for accuracy, clarity, and elimination of ambiguity
Can rapidly assimilate business processes, goals and objectives and distill them into well-defined requirements
Understand how technology can automate business processes and can effectively propose, challenge, and engage in ideation with business and technology teams in formulating software designs and solutions
Good interpersonal and leadership and influencing skills (without direct authority of others)

Nice To Haves

Modernizing from legacy to cloud systems
Amazon Webservices (AWS) Preferred

Responsibilities

Shape the product direction
Influence the product team to consider the technical needs of the product as well as the business deliverables
Ensure incoming requests and initiatives are well defined
Engage business stakeholders, engineering, and architecture for clarity in design, capacity, planning, and execution
Allow for predictable, consistent, and expedient delivery once work is taken up by an engineering team
Balance today’s delivery with tomorrow’s foundation
Think beyond the immediate requirements and align with the long-term technical and strategic posture for the product
Quickly gain understanding of the components of our applications, data flows, integrations and inputs and outputs of the platform
Raise the collective understanding of the product, past, present, and future
Translate business outcomes, requirements, and regulations to system design and implementation
Understand the technology lifecycle, technical debt, and the ability to balance business outcomes with platform stability
Rapidly assimilate business processes, goals and objectives and distill them into well-defined requirements
Understand how technology can automate business processes and can effectively propose, challenge, and engage in ideation with business and technology teams in formulating software designs and solutions