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What We Do

Technology plays a role in every aspect of our business and provides Fidelity with a competitive advantage when it comes to providing exemplary customer service and operational efficiency.

Fidelity Ireland provides a diverse range of technology projects that touch almost every aspect of all of Fidelity's global businesses including portfolio monitoring and trading, voice recognition systems, user interface design, BPM and workflow transaction processing and fund pricing, and market data technology.

A Technology career at Fidelity Ireland offers:

• The excitement of the fast-moving, global financial services marketplace
• The challenge of a diverse, advanced technology environment
• The opportunity to make important contributions
• The satisfaction of personal achievement and professional growth

Technology at Fidelity is vast and employees work on a wide variety of projects. Here is a glimpse of just a few interesting projects that are currently underway or have been recently completed.

• Project Insight
  The Insight programme is a multi-year initiative to create Fidelity's next generation Equity Trading System. The new system will offer significant benefits that will enable Fidelity to respond to changing business processes, support trading in global markets and meet increasing trading and market volumes. The team in Ireland is working with business partners and technologists based in Fidelity's Boston office to design and build the high performing trader desktop which will be used by the Boston, London and Hong Kong trading desks. Using Agile, our developers are involved in front end and middle tier development using various technologies including .NET, Java, WPF and third party grid and controls such as Dev Express & Synchfusion.
• International Order Entry
  Using a combination of Windows and Linux based technologies, the Market Data team designed, developed and delivered Fidelity's International Trading Project to expand Fidelity's on-line trading offering. Fidelity customers now have the ability to trade on 42 additional exchanges around the globe. This project was difficult, as in addition to maintaining existing response time and availability levels, the team had to deal with a number of challenges including the increase in volume, different market open and close times, and different currencies. The team of engineers continues to manage and support the underlying infrastructure put in place to support the additional data flowing from these international exchanges. This project was a major accomplishment for the team and will provide Fidelity with additional revenue streams for many years to come.
• Managed Funds Allocation System: Stablisation Project
  Managed Funds Allocation System (MFAS), a fund management system, manages the flow of money in and out of various funds, and ensures it is distributed according to the fund managers' instructions. The system is built on an IBM DB2 database with a PowerBuilder front-end. MFAS is one of the most critical systems in the Fidelity organisation and is always changing to reflect a dynamic marketplace. Recently, a team of developers was involved in the Stabilisation Project which reviewed the core money management functions of MFAS to improve performance, scalability, transaction management and error handling.  Performance on several key batch processes improved significantly and the team received a team award for their efforts.
• Xtrac
  XTRAC (Cross-Channel Cross-Business Tracking, Routing, and Control) is Fidelity's workflow product. The team of analysts, developers and QA engineers have responsibility for the design, development and implementation of the thin client interface for the XTRAC process management product. Initial implementation is for Fidelity's European customers, with subsequent releases being planned to roll out to Fidelity's other customers in the US and around the globe. Using Agile, our developers are involved in front end and middle tier development using various technologies including Java, Flex, JQuery, Spring, Ajax/JSON and a number of third party UI libraries.

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