IT Data Analyst (Financial Markets, Python, SQL)

Job Description:

Description                

The Data Analyst will be required to work across different groups within the Market Data organization to analyze, acquire, supply and verify informational data used by Market Data’s business partners across the Fidelity enterprise. The role will involve the validation of key data points being leveraged critical downstream Fidelity applications.  The role will also involve managing and troubleshooting data inquiries from product and shared services teams across Market Data’s consuming applications.

The Market Data organization is charged with providing robust real-time and historical data technology solutions for market quoting, charting, and news access throughout the entire Fidelity enterprise. Our services are essential to many of our core businesses facilitating the data demands of retail customers. We require people of intensity and dedication who thrive in a fast paced, challenging, and prestige-customer facing organization. As the market data industry faces rapid change with increased customer demand for lower latency and higher quality content, we are looking for the right mix of individual contributors willing to work in a challenging, ever shifting environment.

Responsibilities

• Support real-time and end of day pricing, history and analytics, news and research as well as reference data offerings by resolving data inquiries from downstream market data consumers.  

• Assist with documenting content behavior and data models within the equities, ETFs, crypto currency, mutual fund, and derivatives marketplaces.

• Work closely with the Market Data Reliability Engineering team with mitigating any reported client incidents as well as data inquiries.

• Support Market Data’s Pricing and History & Analytics offerings via daily monitoring of data quality reports.

• Document and report client data inquires and present monthly highlights to business partners

• Assist with the review of global exchange & vendor notifications and identify potential value-add enhancements and/or potential risks to the Market Data process.

• Assist Data Management team with data analysis and client use case scenarios as required.

• Maintain the documentation and data lineage of all supported Market Data content.

Education and Experience

• BS/BA in business or technology-related discipline.

• 1-3 years of supporting business applications with multiple asset classes and data types either inside or outside of Fidelity is required. 

• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills.

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.

• The ability to initiate, coordinate, speak to and manage tasks during high impacting incident calls and lead the team to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible to minimize the adverse effect on business operations.

Skills and Knowledge

• Superior skills in MS Office suite including Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Visio and Access

• SQL and Unix skills is strongly preferred.  Shell scripting or Python scripting is a plus.

• Familiarity with Agile development environments.

• Familiarity with AWS Cloud concepts is a plus.

• Strong attention to detail; ability to detect errors & take corrective action.

• Knowledge of investment management information and market data administration preferred.

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills; ability to interface with customer organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and collaboratively.

• Superior skill, ability to multi-task and prioritize appropriately.

• Ability to effectively respond to dynamically changing work environment.

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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.