Director, Full Stack Engineering (Individual Contributor)

Job Description:

The Role:

As a Director of Full Stack Engineering, you will lead the technical team to develop user experiences and the underlying platforms to support our customer experience. You will provide the technology know-how, leadership and influencing skills to drive overall technology strategy, digital transformation, thought leadership and talent development across the squads. You will provide technical guidance on lead initiatives that supply ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, understand new technologies and industry trends, and continue to learn while maintaining a strong focus on providing coaching, mentorship and driving talent development across our engineering teams.

The Expertise You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree Computer Science or other related field
• 15+ years of software development
• Architected, designed and built enterprise scale systems
• Extensive integration with 3rd party platforms using industry standard protocols
• Proven leadership and strong technical skills
• Proven track record architecting and building complex end-to-end systems
• Ability to lead development teams and resolve technical/design issues
• Experience working closely with business partners and providing the appropriate system solutions to the development team
• Strong Object-Oriented analysis and design skills
• Full stack Engineer with strong experience in front-end technologies like AngularJs, Bootstrap etc. & middle tier technologies like Java, NodeJs, Python.
• Experience with both SQL based and NoSQL databases.
• Strong experience in cloud computing environments, applications and tools
• Cloud Native Engineering (AWS or Azure), DevOps and Cloud implementation experience preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, strong interpersonal skills
• Experience and knowledge of both waterfall and Agile/iterative software delivery methodologies
• Ability to clearly convey information to a broad array of technical and non-technical audience
• Exceptional sense of customer service
• Motivated, self-directed, results oriented

The Skills You Bring:

• Technology leadership, critical thinking, and influencing skills across the organizational structures
• Collaborate on the cloud and data strategy for the platform
• Actively crafting and maintaining the culture within the team based on Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors
• Continuously developing & maintaining outstanding team expertise and talent in order to support the squads & groups with the right level of knowledge and skills
• Sharing knowledge and expertise within and outside of the team - ensuring the how of the work performed by the teams is aligned with established road maps and guardrails.
• Identifying talent and training needs across the teams
• Enforcing existing engineering practices and setting new ones as and when needed

The Value You Deliver

• Bring passion to your work to encourage and empower your team.
• Embody Fidelity’s leadership principles and multiplier behaviors.
• Mentor teams to improve their performance, knowledge, and expertise.
• Commit to developing leadership at all levels. Help your peers & team get better by raising standards within and around while maintaining a strong focus on building future leaders.
• Enhance partnerships across the organization to ensure alignment towards enterprise standards, tools and platforms
• Help build culture of learning, innovation, empowerment, and transparency.
• Bring a data-driven & collaborative approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

We believe that diversity in background and experience will cultivate an inclusive and engaging work environment for our employees. This ultimately enables us to deliver a better product for our customers. Being technically competent is only telling half the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are very passionate about our culture that promotes autonomy and leadership at all levels. People who are great cultural fits demonstrate curiosity to learn, step up and take ownership, show accountability and thrive by sharing knowledge.

Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position.

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.