Senior Analyst Programmer - Production Support - Risk & Attribution
Fidelity International View all jobs
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Partner with development teams to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets that align with business needs.
- Influence the design and architecture of systems to ensure high availability, resilience, and scalability across trading, portfolio management, compliance, and research platforms.
- Proactively identify bottlenecks and implement performance improvements for latency-sensitive applications.
- Serve as an escalation point for production issues affecting business-critical client reporting applications.
- Perform real-time troubleshooting and root cause analysis during incidents, followed by detailed postmortems and action items.
- Collaborate with product and operations teams to prioritize and remediate reliability risks.
- Implement and evolve observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing) to provide actionable insights into application health and user experience.
- Automate manual processes for deployment, monitoring, and incident remediation using scripting and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Python).
- Apply understanding of trading workflows, portfolio analytics, risk management, and regulatory reporting to prioritize engineering efforts.
- Translate domain-specific requirements into technical reliability strategies for applications handling large volumes of financial data.
- Strong programming/scripting background (e.g., Python, Go, Shell) with a focus on automation and tooling.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and modern application architectures (microservices, containers, service mesh).
- Experience supporting mission-critical applications in a highly regulated financial services environment.
- Familiarity with event-driven systems, message queues (e.g., Kafka), databases (Oracle), and cloud-native platforms.
- Knowledge of financial services processes such as trade lifecycle, NAV calculations, order management, and market data integration is highly desirable.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure as code practices.
- Knowledge of ITIL practices, support experience
- Good knowledge in Oracle database concepts, SQL statements (DML/DDL), stored procedures & Functions
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with an ability to influence development teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience in python and Shell Scripting
- Understanding container orchestration principles (Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Exepience in using monitoring tools like ELK, New Relic
- Experience of GitHub/Bitbucket as source control tool and build tools like Jenkins, UrbanDeploy
- Proven ability to work well under pressure and in a team environment
- Self-motivated, flexible, responsible, and a penchant for quality
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to prioritise own activities, work under hard deadlines.
- Good analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills.
- Calm approach when under pressure
- Solid organisational skills
- A real desire to do things the right way whilst remaining delivery focused
- Innovative and enthusiastic about technology and using it appropriately to solve problems
- Good interpersonal skills, confidence, and ability to interact professionally with people at all levels.
- Proficient oral and written skills
- Experience in supporting and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity in Data Warehousing concepts