Distinguished Engineer

About the OpportunityJob Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 11 October 2024

Title: Distinguished Engineer

Department: Technology

Reports to: Senior Manager

Location: Gurgaon India

Grade: 5

About Fidelity International

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 GPS Platform Delivery - Record Keeping team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

The GPS Delivery - Record Keeping is a team of around 200 people whose role is to develop and maintain the systems-of-record we us to administer the persons and investments of our 1.5m+ workplace and retail customers in UK. In doing this we critical to the delivery of our core product and value proposition to these clients today and in future.

About your role

As a Cloud Engineer you will play a key role on a record keeping platform and working with senior Business leaders, Product Owners and Technology teams within Fidelity International to deliver a new or enhance technology platform to support Fidelity International’s RKP(Record keeping platform).

Working alongside the business proposition team and the technology architects you will need to utilise your experience of working in cloud platform engineering to assist with the engineering aspects, design, definition, exploration and delivery of an end-to-end solution to record keeping platform.

The successful candidate will have a detailed knowledge of working in an Agile environment using Agile tools and techniques, cloud architecture knowledge, Networking knowledge, DevOps toolchains with good skillsets on Python and Unix scripting. You will have experience working with full scale Scrum or Kanban and be a competent user of Jira and Confluence.

You must have a passion for delivering high quality and scalable solutions with a continued focus on the customer need. You should be both willing to challenge and to be challenged on where things can be improved and are comfortable working alongside other engineers in a pair programming environment.

You will be required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support the formation of a new team and commence delivery of a largely greenfield solution. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with the global team is also critical to success.

About you

This position requires a strong self-starter with solid technical engineering background and influencing skills, who can lead the way, assist development teams with architecture, cloud best practices, troubleshooting and any other technical issues related to implementation of a customer facing proposition.

• Responsible for delivering and providing technical expertise as part of the engineering team from both design and day to day coding.
• Working with the product owners identify new improvements, customer requirements and follow through to delivery.
• Ensure delivery in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Stakeholder management across various Technology and Business teams.
• Ensures that technical solutions are fit for purpose, including for functional, non-functional and support requirements and aligned to Global Technology Strategies.
• Be the trusted advisor to the business.
• Partner closely with Architecture, business and supporting central groups while working within a global team.

The ideal candidate will have 9+ years’ experience working as a software engineer with:

• Experience on Kubernetes (K8s) to deploy, manage, and maintain containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Deep Knowledge of AWS and its various services, primarily EC2, VPC, IAM, Serverless offerings, RDS, R53, CloudFront.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools for Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong working experience on Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
• Experience of managing monolithic record keeping Platforms 'a DevOps and deployment pipelines
• Deep Knowledge of UNIX system architecture
• Strong hold on networking core concepts
• Deep Knowledge and understanding of Serverless Architecture and AWS offering in the area
• Comfortable and strong command on Terraform– Core concepts and hands-on writing
• Hands-on experience with Unix Scripting, Python
• Hand-on experience with CI-CD tools – Jenkins, Ansible etc.
• Good experience with containers technologies will be advantageous
• Working knowledge of APIs, caching and messaging 
• Majoring in at least one of the programming languages/frameworks; Java, NodeJS & Python.
• TDD and pair programming best practise with CI/CD pipelines
• Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment
• Passion for growing your skills and, tackling challenging problems

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.