Director - Software Engineering

Job Description:

The Purpose of This Role

The Shareholder Reporting Team within Fidelity Fund and Investment Operations (FFIO) technology business unit supports applications that our business partners use to generate prospectuses, financial statements, and regulatory filings. As a Director/Chapter Lead of software engineering, you will lead teams to develop capabilities and the underlying platforms. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, learn new technologies and languages, and continue to learn. We're looking for highly motivated individuals who work well in a collaborative, iterative, and fast-paced environment.

The Value You Deliver

With you as a core member of the technology leadership team, we will together continue to drive and enhance a strong engineering culture that is built on these foundational principles:

• Imagine. Innovate. Inspire. Keep it cool: Cultivate an inclusive organizational culture, champion positive energy & family spirit, recognize greatness, support each other & enjoy the journey.
• Elevate the floor; Influence the horizontal: 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.
• Tightly aligned; loosely coupled: Establish or enhance partnerships across the organization to ensure alignment towards enterprise standards, tools and reusability while providing direction for teams to operate autonomously.
• Level Up on Craftsmanship: Treat learning as a journey not a destination. Commit to learning and guiding as a part of your life.
• Build the "Best" Tech together: Promote innovation driven by purpose and practicing autonomy with responsibility.

The Skills that are Key to this role

• Drive and motivation to shape and service our broader organization by providing leadership, strategic thought consulting, and leading digital transformation efforts to support an agile workforce that is focused on customer obsession, pace over perfection, leadership at all levels and continuous learning.
• Aspiration and skills to drive technology roadmaps for establishment and rollout of engineering standards, technology direction, and product architecture allowing the business leaders to develop key insights to optimally manage the business today and in the future.
• Technology chops to be immersed in the very leading edge of cloud, and web technologies, plying your know-how with cutting edge architecture, and modern development practices.
• Authenticity and personal commitment to coach engineers across multiple levels, craft frameworks for skills progression, influence careers, and build leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Science (or equivalent STEM discipline)
• Own all technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications.
• Write codes and perform tests of applications.
• Provide hands on expertise with architecture, technical design, and performance tuning on development tasks in ongoing sprints.
• Develop deep understanding of the tie-ins with other systems and platforms within the supported domains.
• Drive ongoing product and platform release sprints with various team members and business stake holders.
• Mentor Engineers on Agile team and implement high-quality software components.
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies.

Technical / Behavioral

• Technology leadership, critical thinking, and influencing skills across diverse organizational structures.
• Driving technology architecture, strategies & product roadmaps for large, complex systems.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-based technologies specifically the AWS platform.
• Hands on experience on Design & Development and Architecture.
• Strong programming skills with digital mindset, and fluent across technology components including API Services development and consumption using modern frameworks and open-source technologies.
• The ability to code in more than one programming language and experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications. We believe in applying the right technology depending on the challenge and are always exploring new technologies to continually provide value to our customers.
• Apply state-of-the-art tools and methods to enable efficiency, performance and agility through automating DevOps processes, continuous integration, and delivery pipelines.
• Deep understanding of building secure software using modern security principles.
• Delivery focus with the ability to take full ownership.
• Experience working with distributed teams in different time-zones.
• Strong commitment to quality, documentation, and engineering excellence
• Strong communication skills, problem solving skills and adaptability
• Experience in reverse engineering and understanding existing applications
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Core Java, Spring, Design patterns, Angular, REST, J2EE Object Oriented design, and development skills.
• Ability to participate in working sessions that result in clear requirements and technical design, even when working with non-technical members of SCRUM teams.
• Proven experience with Continuous Integration concepts and DevOps best-practices & tools (Maven, Jenkins, GitHub, Jira, etc.)
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Quick learner and willing to adapt and learn new technologies
• Great attitude, team player and effective contributor
• Commitment to quality and high standards

The Skills that is good to have for this role

• Strong time management and planning skills required.
• Possess excellent communications and interpersonal skills.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or any other discipline
• 15+ years of experience in Java, Web, and Cloud technology role
• 3+ years of experience with people management, coaching and leading engineering team

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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.

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.