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Principal Systems Analyst

Fidelity

Fidelity

IT
Westlake, TX, USA
Posted on Aug 23, 2025
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Job Description:

The Role

Join Fidelity Investments as a Principal Systems Analyst and be part of an ambitious team dedicated to revolutionizing our digital platform! This opportunity allows you to drive the transformation of our Brokerage Operations Workstation into an innovative, user-friendly digital experience. As a Principal Systems Analyst on the team, you will be expected to quickly gain understanding of all the components of our applications and will work with the team to deliver best in class customer experience solutions.

Ideal candidates are strategic problem solvers with a passion for user-centric design and demonstrated analytical abilities. Your role will be critical in improving operational efficiency and decision-making through modern, coordinated solutions.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Strong understanding of financial or brokerage industry

  • Ability to design systems that support Brokerage Operations processing

  • Mapping and improving workflows in trading, settlement, straight-through processing (STP) and reconciliations

  • Familiarity with trade lifecycle, clearing and custodian systems

  • Awareness of regulations, compliance workflows and audit trails

  • Programming Languages: Proficiency in SQL, Python or Scripting

  • Database Management: Skills in data modeling and database design

  • Advanced Data Analytics: Ability to interpret large datasets and extract insights

  • Business Process Modeling: Skills in analyzing and improving workflow

  • Systems Integration: Understanding in APIs/Swagger Contracts

Key responsibilities for this role:

  • Lead in-depth analysis of Swagger contracts and API specifications to ensure alignment with strategic business objectives, identifying integration opportunities and documentation gaps across platforms.

  • Partner with cross-functional teams including product leadership, UX design, engineering, and business stakeholders to define and refine user and business requirements for digital transformation initiatives.

  • Conduct advanced workflow and process analysis, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for automation and modernization, particularly in legacy systems such as mainframe environments.

  • Translate business logic and legacy data structures into future-state digital experience requirements, ensuring scalability, usability, and automation readiness.

  • Drive the development of high-quality solution requirements, user stories, and functional specifications for complex software systems, ensuring traceability to business goals.

  • Provide strategic insights through data analysis, leveraging SQL and relational database expertise to inform decision-making and measure modernization impact.

  • Mentor junior analysts and contribute to the development of analytical standards and best practice across the team.

  • Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to ensure API and integration strategies align with enterprise architecture and security standards.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience as a systems analyst, business analyst, or similar role in a digital or operational transformation environment.

  • Ability to translate technical requirements and operational processes into intuitive, actionable product requirements; Proven understanding of operations workflows and processes, preferably in financial services or other regulated industries.

  • Experience working on projects related to legacy system modernization (e.g., mainframe to cloud, UI/UX redesign, data integration)

  • Effective communicator with customer engagement and storytelling skills; Conveys digital strategy and impact using data and visualizations.

  • Demonstrated experience informing product strategy and delivery, including opportunity identification, solution design, and working with technology teams for delivery.

  • Experienced in agile development methodologies and collaborating with multifaceted product teams, engineering teams, and business collaborators; Proficient with tools such as JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, Miro, Figma, Tableau, or other analytics and product planning tools.

The Team

Our mission is to reduce manual processes and risk while improving efficiency and flexibility across the organization.

We design world-class digital experiences at scale by:

  • Applying deep research and industry insights

  • Crafting product strategy in alignment with business goals

  • Driving implementation across associate and client-facing platforms

Our team supports Fidelity’s growth by enabling straight-through processes and improving the digital operating model.

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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Information Technology

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.

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.

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to [email protected], or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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