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Principal Systems Analyst

Fidelity

Fidelity

IT
Westlake, TX, USA · Merrimack, NH, USA · Durham, NC, USA · Jersey City, NJ, USA · Boston, MA, USA · smithfield, ri, usa
USD 89k-150k / year
Posted on Oct 9, 2025
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Job Description:

The Role

Identity & Access Management of Enterprise Cybersecurity (ECS) is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Principal Systems Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including businesses, security, compliance, and product management, to analyze complex data sets, identify trends, and translate business requirements into actionable insights. Your work will directly support program execution decision-making and help us improve our strategic program execution efficiency and security posture. This position is ideal for an individual with a strong foundation in data analysis, a passion for technology, and a keen eye for uncovering valuable insights from unstructured data.

The Team

Enterprise Cybersecurity is responsible for protecting Fidelity from external and internal threats against our infrastructure, data and systems. You will join a team focused on delivering high-impact product analysis. Your contributions will help drive the decommissioning of legacy platforms and support the implementation of strategic, forward-looking solutions. In this role, you will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, fellow product analysts, squad leads, engineers, and architects to support key initiatives within the Identity & Access Management product domain.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • 8+ years’ experience as systems analyst or business analyst delivering software using agile development practices. Additional experience in the cybersecurity or financial services industry would be beneficial.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent career experience in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems or related field

  • Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools: You should be highly skilled in Python, SQL, and Tableau or PowerBI to analyze complex datasets, create predictive models/patterns, and visualize findings.

  • Experience in cybersecurity and IT operations: Knowledge of Identity & Access Management (IAM), log analysis, and datamining and monitoring are essential. Familiarity with tools like SailPoint is a plus.

  • Strong analytical capabilities: You have a proven ability to sift through unstructured data, logs, and alerts, clean and organize them, and transform overlooked details into meaningful insights.

  • Experience with Jira and Jira Align, or other comparable Agile tools is a plus

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills: You can clearly articulate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences through reports and dashboards.

The Value You Deliver

  • Expert understanding of complex business needs and challenges with a keen ability to influence product strategy to enable customer success

  • Expertise in eliciting requirements from non-technical and technical stakeholders across the enterprise and translating them to well-defined, consumable epics and stories with clear business value and acceptance criteria with a focus on user needs

  • Expert mastery of advanced business analysis techniques and product ownership skills including translating analysis into actionable insights to inform product and team objectives

  • Expert ability to conduct research and analysis independently including applying data-driven insights, constructing complex diagrams and visualizations, and documenting current and future state of complex projects

  • Functions as a domain expert of team’s product(s) and processes and seeks opportunities to document and share knowledge to prevent single point of failure

  • Successfully navigates competing priorities and aligns teams across the enterprise to drive strategic, product delivery

  • Champions and leads cross-team and cross-product area collaboration to drive strong business outcomes

  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills including proposing informed solutions and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences

  • Creates and maintains complex documentation for reference by external teams and stakeholders including product documentation, technical diagrams, and business requirement documents

  • Operates with a continuous improvement mentality and mentor's junior analysts by sharing expertise and cultivating curiosity.

Related Certifications

  • Certifications such as CISA, CISM, ISC2 SSCP, CISSP, IIBA (CCBA, CBAP, POA), and Cyber or technical certificates are a plus.

The base salary range for this position is $89,000-$150,000 per year.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

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.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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 accommodations@fmr.com, 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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