About the Opportunity

Job Description

Title Analyst Programmer

Department GPS Production Services

Location BLR

Level 2

We're proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our Digital Production Services team and feel like you're part of something bigger.

The team is part of the wider FIL Technology team and is primarily responsible for supporting the UK Business covering Personal Investing customers, Advised clients, Workplace Investing clients and members. The department is responsible for defining, delivering and supporting all IT hardware and software needs of the businesses that are supported. The technology teams are primarily located in Gurgaon, Bangalore, Dalian and Kingswood. Digital Production Services team, is responsible for the maintenance, restoration of service, and risk management, of a discrete portfolio of key applications which underpin Fidelity's major business operations. The main responsibility of this team is to ensure Fidelity's Retail platform is functioning correctly, available and providing excellent performance. The team is also responsible for handling critical business impacting issues affecting the platform - looking to not only fix issues - but ensure long term resolutions are found.

The key functions of this group include:

• Rapid response to address high Impact (Impact 1 and 2) incidents. This will be achieved through internal skill sets and drawing in skills from other groups within FIL.
• Service restoration subsequent to unanticipated outages / disruptions.
• Driving root cause detection and resolution and ensuring these are advised back to all delivery groups.
• Advising Release Management of the best way to release new functions onto the production platform.
• Proactively manage the applications through understanding current risks (functional, operational and capacity) and ensuring they are flagged appropriately.
• Identification of and driving application related service quality improvement.
• Reviewing proposed technical solutions for new projects to ensure that are fit for purpose.

• Maintaining and improving performance and availability of all Fidelity's customer facing transactional sites.
• Full maintenance and support of High / Low Severity Issues for all Fidelity production transactional web applications. The role involves diagnosis and research of various technical issues, designing and coding fixes. Ownership of problems from first notification right through to resolution.
• 1st Line Support
  • Provide technical skills to resolve incidents under direction of Tech Specialist where necessary
  • Primary focus is on restoration of service.
• Participation within an on call support / Rota based service provision as demanded.
• Undertake support and maintenance activities to proactively identify and prevent potential issues within the specified portfolio of applications developing into high severity incidents.
• Assisting and educating users, other support personnel and management in use of specified applications (where deemed appropriate.)
• Provision of input to development of software solutions for incident fixes and preventative System Change Requests.
• Input into the documentation of Application Recovery procedures.
• Liaison with other application development / support areas e.g. Unix, DBA, DAS etc.
• Provide input into Disaster Recovery and BCP plans / processes.
• Ensure adherence to change management processes and assist in facilitating the ongoing review and enhancement of these processes.
• Work with project / operational areas as required to safeguard production service when changes are introduced into the production environment.
• Champion the Recovery group both within Web Delivery and to the rest of Technology and the Enterprise

• Willing to work in Support (Along with UK Shifts & 24X7 On-call on rotation basis)
• At least 5 years of Java, Springboot development or support experience
• Experience in Node.js for backend and React.Js for frontend (hands-on)
• Knowledge of AWS, K8s, Terraform, Cloud Foundry
• Basic understanding of Unix Operating System
• Good analytical, problem-solving and documentation skills.

Feel rewarded

For starters, we'll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We'll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we'll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work - finding a balance that works for all of us. It's all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.