Senior Mainframe Systems Analyst

Job Description:

The Team

Stock Plan Services Technology designs, develops, implements, and supports stock plan products and features. Stock Plan Services is an equity compensation services division of Fidelity Investments.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual with a proven track record of collaborating with business partners, to understand and translate business challenges and opportunities into system requirements and make recommendations regarding system functionality. This individual will work closely with squad leads, business analysts, architects, technology leads, in an agile team to ensure successful delivery of program objectives.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• Proven experience in mainframe applications, documenting processes, workflows
• Proficiency in applications using programming languages like COBOL, PL/I, or Assembler
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Understanding of domain-driven design and RESTful APIs.
• 6+ years systems analysis experience; related work in software solutions definition/development is required.
• Confirmed experience with systems development methodologies and formal documentation processes.
• Agile/Scrum experience is required.
• Strong data analysis skills including querying, profiling, and analyzing data.
• Financial Services experience is preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

The Skills You Bring

• A technical problem solver comfortable working in a sophisticated and fast-paced environment.
• You are proactive, with a strong desire to learn and contribute to a highly functioning team.
• You can efficiently multi-task and work towards issue resolution in a timely manner.
• Strong analytical, facilitation and communication skills including written, verbal, and technology illustrations.
• Capacity to quickly understand and incorporate new technologies.
• Capable of articulating a business problem/requirement and translate into technical specifications.
• Outstanding collaborator and consensus builder.
• Results-oriented problem solver comfortable accepting change.
• Demonstrable understanding of software lifecycle.

The Value You Deliver

• Collaborating with partners, technology leads, and agile teams.
• Partnering with other SPS program teams to identify program inter-dependencies, over-lap, and re-use opportunities.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions.
• Translate sophisticated business needs into clear, relevant, requirements.
• Research and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Define the scope of problems/issues, in terms of business and/or system requirements and processes.
• Evaluating design of existing and in-development systems to assess their functionality, dependability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with Agile team members to build comprehensive and cohesive solution approaches.
• Ensure complete acceptance test criteria is provided for all systems requirements.
• Produce and/or maintain system feature design documentation and user training and materials.

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.