Workplace Investing Digital Platforms Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Workplace Investing Digital Platforms Director, Software Engineering

The Team

Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) Digital Platforms Technology team designs, develops, implements, and supports WI’s suite of Digital applications. We are passionate about delivering innovative solutions that exceed our customer’s needs. We embrace diversity of thought and experience. Our team thrives with a steadfast dedication to innovation which promotes a culture of continuous improvement and significant product advancement. This is a fast-paced technology group that adopts modern technologies to build powerful tools and deliver an outstanding end user experience. 

As a Director of Software Engineering, you will craft, build, test & deliver the features that make up Fidelity’s digital experiences.  You will also provide guidance and mentor developers within the wider digital platforms technology team.

The value you deliver:

Strategy & Planning:

• Defines and executes on tech vision in consultation with architecture, engineering, DevOps and product leadership.
• Facilitates the alignment of the product roadmap with tech driven initiatives.
• Brings tech vision to life; emphasizes platform stability, engineering discipline, and builds a plan to address end-of-life technologies.

Coaching & Mentoring:

• Mentors agile teams including developers, testers and analysts. Serves as a link between product and architecture.
• Creates next-gen tech leads by investing significant efforts in coaching and mentoring associates.
• Serves as the authority on technical solutions and standards.

Hands-on Engineering:

• Acquires expertise in Fidelity-specific practices.  Shapes engineering guidelines, ensuring they remain up to date with the latest industry standards and trends.
• Works on strategic projects that span multiple business units and product teams. Provides technical guidance and leadership.  Has the ability to delve deep into the codebase to solve technical issues.
• Serves as the steward of the tech vision, delivers on complex projects with a focus on incremental value delivery to achieve this vision.
• Acts as an advisor in code review and release processes ensuring high engineering standards are maintained across squads.

Scope:

• Provides technical leadership to multiple agile teams.
• Works across business units to develop an engaged engineering community. Maintains focus on strong engineering discipline.
• Serves as a developer advocate. Brings developer experience concerns to the fore and helps improve developer experience.

The expertise you bring:

• Ability to influence technology strategy to enable delivery of business value.
• Ability to assess viability of solutions and quickly get up to speed.
• Strong problem-solving competence.
• Deep expertise in at least one tech stack, with solid abilities to enable value delivery in other areas: 
  • Client-side development (web and mobile) – Angular JS or similar
  • API development - Microservices, latest Java on spring boot with docker to Kubernetes deployments into a cloud provider.  Working knowledge of GraphQL is a plus.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Our goal within WI Digital Platforms is to build a user experience that delights our customers, anticipates their needs and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. You will be responsible for leading the development of high performance, responsive user interfaces.

Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are focused on 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 cultivating a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

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Category:

Information Technology

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.