Principal Systems Analyst

Fidelity Investments•Westlake, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Translates business requirements into system requirements using JIRA. Crafts Web-based transaction applications using Agile/SCRUM methodology. Develops Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and executes analysis for large-scale projects. Documents requirements, creates specifications, and makes design recommendations for large-scale projects. Defines analysis strategy. Conducts independent and complex analysis across multiple initiatives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) performing systems analysis on Web applications in a financial services environment.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) performing systems analysis on Web applications in a financial services environment.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) triaging production issues; analyzing application logs using Splunk and Datadog; configuring using SoapUI, Postman, and Talend to directly call various SOAP and REST webservices for analyzing issues; and configuring content and triaging content issues, using SDL Tridion.
DE writing complex T-SQL/PLSQL queries and scripts to insert and extract data into or from large data sets within relational database environments (DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and MSSQL); and writing stored procedures to insert and maintain test data for financial Web applications.
DE designing REST APIs for authorization, including user permissions, entitlements, and relationships; and performing database analysis to troubleshoot complex authorization issues.
DE creating planning session epics and stories for Agile project management processes, using Atlassian JIRA and Confluence; maintaining healthy story backlogs using Atlassian Jira and conducting story refinement sessions; and executing and documenting systems analysis of business requirements for financial Web applications in user stories, using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

Leads enterprise-level system analysis efforts.
Defines and implements strategic system solutions.
Advises senior leadership on technical direction.
Develops innovative solutions to support evolving business needs.
Works with business and technology partners to identify, review, define, interpret, and clarify scope of work in terms of business and/or system requirements and processes.
Contributes to the analysis strategy for technology projects culminating in the creation of documentation to support project needs.
Recommends changes to existing systems design, to achieve requirements and recommends designs for new systems based on requirements.
Documents objectives, use cases, requirements, and specifications.
Upholds documentation standards and best practices, and makes recommendations on standards and processes.
Participates in incident management to assess business impact and proposes next steps for resolution.
Recommends traceability improvements.
Establishes project plans for projects of complex scope and work on multiple projects concurrently.
Works directly with the user community for project definition.
Communicates project plan information, objectives, and deliverables to the team.
Works on complex assignments and on multiple phases of a project.
Writes business cases for review.
Identifies and record risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions in accordance with project standards.
Participates in the review and validation of Quality Assurance test plans to ensure requirements have been met.
Coaches and mentors junior analysts and developers on systems analysis techniques and business workflows.