Principal Systems Analyst

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Durham, NC
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech
The Role
The Principal Systems Analyst analyzes and designs complex web applications, leads projects, mentors junior analysts, and manages stakeholder communications to meet business needs.
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Position Description: 

 

Performs technical analysis of sophisticated Web application development concepts, using Spring MVC, Spring Core, XML, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Performs systems analysis with Hava and Confluence. Designs new systems based on requirements. Provides analysis on complex systems analysis projects, often across subsystems and companies, in a matrix organization. Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies. Consults with business users to develop recommendations that address difficult and complex business needs and opportunities. 

 

Primary Responsibilities: 

 

  • Leads and conducts interviews with business users to gather requirements and analyzes technology needs and system and workflow challenges. 

  • Develops Application Programming Interface (API) definitions and service call strategies to execute business logic. 

  • Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex systems analysis projects and defines project scope, leads analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.     

  • Leads other analysts in the execution of documents on large and complex projects and monitors the quality and progress of documents created by other analysts.   

  • Leads and participates in the definition of test strategies, and coordinates user acceptance testing efforts. 

  • Communicates progress of multiple projects to management, engages stakeholders on a regular basis, and manages expectations of internal and external stakeholders.  

  • Proactively navigates the organization to accomplish tasks and works on multiple features simultaneously when needed. 

  • Works with other teams to evolve standards and best practices for systems analysis processes.  

  • Participates in incident and crisis management to assess business impact, determine and facilitate any workarounds, in concert with the production support organization.  

  • Coaches and mentors junior product analysts and developers on systems analysis techniques and business workflows. 

  • Assesses design recommendations made by other analysts. 

  • Verifies that objectives, requirements, use cases and specifications remain current. 

  • Responsible for meeting on-time and on-budget project goals. 

  • Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects. 

  • Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues. 

 

Education and Experience: 

 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) orchestrating the design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, secure, Cloud-ready enterprise Web applications within the financial services sector. 

 

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Systems Analyst (or closely related occupation) orchestrating the design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, secure, Cloud-ready enterprise Web applications within the financial services sector. 

 

Skills and Knowledge: 

 

Candidate must also possess: 

 

  • Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) analyzing the integration of content management using SDL Tridion and SOAP/REST Web services; and analyzing Web services request and response schema structure, and Microservices API design, using Swagger or Swagger Hub; and leading the design and development of Digital applications using Scrum and Agile methodologies.  

  • DE designing and developing customer facing enterprise Web applications using Java and J2EE server-side technologies (Spring, Spring-Boot, Struts, Servlets, JSP, and JSTL), microservices architecture, Web security technologies (OAuth and SAML), Apache Camel, and SOAP/RESTful Web services. 

  • DE designing and developing responsive Web application components and modules, using client side technologies – Angular 11+, HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript, Gulp, or Grunt; and creating client-side code automated unit tests, using test runners including Karma or Jasmine.  

  • DE performing Java/J2EE application development according to Test Driven and Behavioral Driven Development (TDD and BDD) methodologies, using Junit and PowerMockito frameworks; and performing application development and debugging using software development tools and editors – Eclipse or VSCode. 

 

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Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

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.

Top Skills

Angular 11+
CSS
CSS3
Eclipse
HTML5
J2Ee
Java
Jsp
Jstl
Microservices
Rest
Sdl Tridion
Servlets
Soap
Spring Core
Spring Mvc
Struts
Swagger
Typescript
Vscode
XML
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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
58,848 Employees
Year Founded: 1946

What We Do

At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products.

Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.

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