Job Description:
Chapter Leader – Director Software Engineering
The Role
We're looking for a passionate engineering leader to join Fixed Income Engineering chapter supporting Next Gen Trading platform experience. You will bring a strong technology background with a passion for coaching and growing engineering talent. In this role you will be leading a team of dynamic engineers working across multiple squads. Join us to be a part of our leadership team and help us build a healthy team environment promoting Engineering Excellence and a strong product mindset.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
10+ years of technical hands-on experience in designing and building large scale resilient distributed systems.
Passion for leading, coaching and developing talent in engineering teams in a geographically dispersed agile organization.
Proven experience in leading technical design and estimation, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and governance controls.
Experience in leading front end engineering teams with modern JavaScript frameworks (Angular, TypeScript, Node, NPM, Rx JS) preferred.
Experienced in defining and promoting branching strategy, development and testing best practices with standard quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.
Broad knowledge of technology standards and best practices including devops practices, design principles, security, reliability, resilience, performance, etc.
Promoting engineering excellence and continuous learning mindset.
Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
Experienced in identifying and acquiring talent needs, resource planning, and talent allocation across large organizations
The Value You Deliver
Define and implement best practices, standards and guidelines for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes to ensure consistency and quality across the organization
Driving a culture of excellence and continuous improvement, including setting high standards for quality, performance and reliability
Ensuring organization talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for clients and the business
Supporting and empowering associates, to enable delivery of increased value in their teams, including coaching and mentoring team members to help them grow and develop their skills.
Enabling an agile and streamlined organization by demonstrating agile behaviors
Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions partnering with product teams.
Measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics
The Team
In our Fixed Income Technology organization, we are committed to empowering our investment professionals with the very best tools and technologies to deliver world class investment performance to our customers. Our technology experts work across a broad array of investment processes supporting many different types of securities and investment objectives. Through outstanding business and technology partnership, we can offer great solutions to help our customers meet their financial objectives. Our Agile squads are composed primarily of full-stack engineers using Java, Python, Oracle, PL/SQL, Angular, and Kafka on the cloud to create software that supports Fidelity’s Bond and Money Market investment, portfolio management, investing and trading systems.
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 associate for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.
Accommodation Language
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 please contact the following:
For roles based in the US: Contact the HR Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2
For roles based in Germany: Contact accomodationsgermany@fmr.com
For roles based in Ireland: Contact accomodationsireland@fmr.com
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