Job Description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 31 January 2024



Title: Senior Technical Consultant \xe2\x80\x93Cloud Engineer

Department: Enterprise Data Team

Location: Gurgaon

Level : 6

We\xe2\x80\x99re 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 team and feel like you\xe2\x80\x99re part of something bigger.

Department Description

Enterprise data Team comprises a multi-functional team spanning Data Governance, Quality, Analytics, Architecture, Market Data and Data Services team. Its focus is on the use of data, governance, architecture and infrastructure across the entire Delivery Supply Chain ensuring best practise from end to end through collaborative initiatives amongst all business functions within FIL.

What we do

• Engineer & support all aspects of the FIL database services on premises and in Cloud
• Engineer & support all data movement technologies such as Cloudera (Kafka, Apache Nifi), Oracle Goldengate
• Engineer & support all data analysis and reporting technologies such as Oracle Business Intelligence, Tableau and PowerBI
• Engineer & support Snowflake cloud data warehouse
• Design AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud solutions to meet our needs in the cloud
• Work with other Technology Infrastructure teams to deliver global technical solutions
• Collaborative, transparent, and friendly working environment

Purpose of your role

Data Services has recently begun its journey to the cloud and the successful applicant will be responsible for helping us achieve that goal. We manage many products within the organisation, and you will help to develop our cloud solutions for them using best practices. The company predominately uses AWS, but we also deploy on Azure and Oracle Cloud. The team is relatively inexperienced and your role as a senior cloud engineer will be to drive best practices for cloud solutions, agile methods, automation strategies and programming techniques as well as educating the team along the way.

The Senior Technical Consultant will be expected to work closely in collaboration with all FIL teams, especially Cloud Security & Cyber Security, Enterprise Architects & Delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

This position requires a strong flexible, approachable self-starter with extremely solid technical programming background and influencing skills, and who shows courage through technical implementation to deliver quality-based solutions in a complex environment which includes assisting the Data Services team with architecture, design decisions, coding, troubleshooting and any other technical issues related to moving existing or creating new data systems into AWS using the core services.

• Technical senior engineer with responsibility of delivering secure, automated, self-serviced, innovative & cost-efficient cloud data services reliably and repeatedly into AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud
• Support Data Services in analysing security requirements & provide innovative solutions that challenge the status quo based on previous experience & best practise.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture & Cloud Security to define the architectural patterns for optimum use across Fidelity.
• Enable customers to understand & use the services in the most effective way to realise business benefit quickly using all means possible supported through a global operating engineering product model.
• Show courage of conviction to evanglise change within the FIL Delivery & Infrastructure teams through collaboration and empathy, driven from a position of trust, patience & knowledge. Identify new improvements / requirements on cloud, propose solutions and agree with the core team, ensuring alignment with the AWS Product Owner strategy.
• Actively coach & support other team members through pairing, encouraging an open collaborative working culture within & outside the team.
• Illustrate a sound technical understanding of all cloud-based technologies, both from an infrastructure & development perspective ensuring practical experience can substantiate this understanding to benefit influencing others to adopt cloud.

Experience and Qualifications Required

The ideal candidate will have

• A strong development & infrastructure engineering background with hands on experience of cloud-based technologies across multiple cloud providers focusing on delivering services that are loosely coupled, highly scalable & codes to cope with failure at every level with a security bias.
• Proven practical experience of implementing simple & effective solutions that meet security requirements together with the ability to identify risks with mitigating actions.
• Excellent knowledge of creating & managing continuous delivery pipelines enabling continuous integration using test driven development with high coverage in a multi-tenant, full stack Production enterprise cloud configuration where rolling intra-day upgrades are BAU, security & audit requirements are met by default.
• Excellent python & BOTO programming skills with clear logical & practical use of innovative yet keeping it simple coding capability.
• Very good knowledge of the core AWS services in relation to their use case, integration with hybrid networking models, authentication, authorisation & best practise.
• Very good knowledge of using Terraform.
• Very good practical working knowledge of all network layers & security controls possible in AWS/hybrid models
• A technical, pragmatic engineer who can follow best practise agile Kanban based Product teams using pointed MVP value add stories enabling rapid agile delivery to our customers. Demonstrative effective problem-solving skills across the entire stack using traditional RCA methods rather than just relying on tools.
• Full transparency of work with others to ensure maximum knowledge transfer & collaboration across the global teams. Highly motivated team player that forms strong relationships with colleagues with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills in English
• Any knowledge of the products we look after as well as cloud database solutions such as Snowflake will be a bonus

Feel rewarded

For starters, we\xe2\x80\x99ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We\xe2\x80\x99ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we\xe2\x80\x99ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work \xe2\x80\x93 finding a balance that works for all of us. It\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Fidelity International