[ref. e7898322] Senior Technical Consultant
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About the Opportunity
Job Type: PermanentApplication Deadline: 11 March 2025
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Job Description
Title: Senior Technical ConsultantDepartment: Technology
Reports to: Associate Director
Location: Gurgaon India
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 GPS Quality Engineering team and feel like you're part of something bigger.
The GPS Delivery - Quality Engineering is a team of around 250 people whose role is to ensure the quality of all deliverables throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Key responsibilities of a quality engineering team includes Quality planning, process improvement, testing, defect management, compliance, data analysis and ensuring compliance of regulatory requirements.In doing this we are critical to the delivery of our core product and value proposition for our clients today and in future.
As a Senior Technical consultant, you will play a key role on multiple initiatives under Quality engineering (QE) hub. As part of QE hub, you will be working with senior Business leaders, Product Owners, and Technology teams within Fidelity International to deliver a new or enhance QE capabilities to support faster and scalable software delivery.
Working alongside the technology architects, product owners and quality engineers you will need to utilise your experience of working in cloud platform engineering to assist with the engineering aspects, design, definition, exploration and delivery of an end-to-end solution.
The successful candidate will have a detailed knowledge of working in an Agile environment using Agile tools and techniques, Java, cloud architecture knowledge, Networking knowledge, DevOps toolchains with good skillsets on Selenium and JMeter.You will have experience working with full scale Scrum or Kanban and be a competent user of Jira and Confluence.
You must have a passion for delivering high quality and scalable solutions with a continued focus on the customer need. You should be both willing to challenge and to be challenged on where things can be improved and are comfortable working alongside other engineers in a pair programming environment.
You will be required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support the formation of a new utilities, and enable commence delivery of a largely greenfield solution. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with the global team is also critical to success.
This position requires a strong self-starter with solid technical engineering background and influencing skills, who can lead the way, assist Quality Engineers with architecture, cloud best practices, troubleshooting and any other technical issues related to implementation of testing toolset.
- Responsible for delivering and providing technical expertise as part of the engineering team from both design and day to day coding.
- Work with the Quality engineers, developers, and architects to identify new improvements, create accelerators and follow through to delivery.
- Ensure delivery in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner.
- Stakeholder management across various Technology and Business teams.
- Ensures that technical solutions are fit for purpose, including for functional, non-functional and support requirements and aligned to Global Technology Strategies.
- Be the trusted advisor to the business.
- Partner closely with Architecture, business and supporting central groups while working within a global team.
The ideal candidate will have 12+ years experience working as a software engineer with:
- Experience in implementing test pyramid using tools like JUnit, playwright, PACT, Selenium, JMeter etc
- Deep Knowledge of AWS and its various services, primarily EC2, VPC, IAM, Serverless offerings, RDS,R53, CloudFront.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools for Kubernetes clusters.
- Strong working experience on Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker.
- Experience of working with DevOps and deployment pipelines
- Deep Knowledge of UNIX system architecture
- Strong hold on networking core concepts
- Deep Knowledge and understanding of Serverless Architecture and AWS offering in the area
- Comfortable with Terraform- Core concepts and hands-on writing
- Hand-on experience with CI-CD tools - Jenkins, Ansible etc.
- Good experience with containers technologies will be advantageous
- Working knowledge of APIs, caching and messaging
- Majoring in at least one of the programming languages/frameworks Java, NodeJS & Python.
- TDD and pair programming best practise with CI/CD pipelines
- Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment
- Passion for growing your skills and, tackling challenging problems
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.