Principal Systems Analyst

Fidelity Talent Source is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Principal Systems Analyst to work in Boston, MA!

Fidelity Wealth’s Trade Management Engineering group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for Fidelity’s Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows.

We are seeking an experienced systems analyst to help with the design and development of next-generation trading analytics systems. This role is focused on helping build scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across teams, work closely with developers and product owners, variety of business and technology groups, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment.

• Become a subject matter expert for the applications that provide electronic trading analytics capabilities.

• Learn the electronic trading domain

• Represent the development team in discussions with business stakeholders

• Understand low level details of the applications, understand source code, be able to communicate how the application works to non-technical audience

• Learn new technologies and use GenAI tools to help understand and document source code

• Be able to build architectural and system workflow diagrams

• Gather data by writing queries (KDB/Q) and be able to drill into business scenarios by understanding data from a very large data set along with the system architecture

• Lead system design, translate business requirements to technical details working with developers and product owners

• Breakdown and manage the work items (JIRA epics and stories) for developers and QA

• Facilitate discussions with different stakeholders on team initiatives

• Support production and non-production environments, be able to answer inquiries from the business support teams

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.

• 9+ years of Systems Analyst and Project Management experience

• Prior hands-on software development experience

• Experience in complex distributed systems, especially trading systems

• Experienced in SDLC tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc.

• Experienced in collaboration tools

• Experienced in crafting architecture and system workflow diagrams, using tools like Visio, Draw.io, etc

• Data modeling and design background

• Experienced in SQL and worked on large data sets for data analytics

• Experience in applications on Linux/Unix environments and experienced in user commands or scripting

• Experience in cloud patterns and deployments especially in AWS

• Familiarity with AI developer assist tools (e.g. Git Hub Copilot).

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Git Hub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.

• Experience in Capital Markets or Brokerage systems
  , especially trading analytics is a big plus

• KDB+/Q experience is a plus

• Ability to understand complex, end-to-end systems and identify performance, scalability, or resilience bottlenecks.

• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a collaborative team environment.

• Self-driven innovation and comfort working with leadership.

• Willingness to support production systems and applications releases, including occasional weekend support.

The hourly pay rate range for this position is $50.04-$90.04 per hour.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and…