Job Description:

As an FI Technology Engineering Leader, you blend deep knowledge of software engineering practices and strong engineering skills with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. In an agile structure you will collaborate with other leaders to establish engineering standards, best practices, influence strategic decisions and build solutions in your area. You will directly manage a team of people who primarily work within autonomous teams and report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the 'how' of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring:

• 10+ years experience in delivering software using agile development practices

• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams across multi functional disciplines such as software engineering, test automation, systems analysis, and delivery

• Experience identifying and hiring talent needs; and resource planning and talent allocation across large organisations

• Proven knowledge and experience of engineering principles, patterns and practices and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which you build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization

• Committed people leader capable of developing others to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency

• Data-driven approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic trade-off analyses

• Strong technical proficiency with OOP and data; previous software development experience in at least one of the following is highly desirable:

  • Development experience with Java and/or Python

  • Database technologies such as Snowflake, Oracle, Spark (Java or Scala)

• Experience in large scale brokerage environment preferred

The Value You Deliver:

• Ensure the team is aligned to strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for our customers and the business

• Support and empower team members, to enable delivery of increased value in their team’s results

• Constantly promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement

• Proactively partner with business and technology stakeholders to:

  • Influence strategic backlog and prioritisation decisions related to your area

  • Measure performance through established objectives and metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results

  • Align your people across teams and the business product to ensure the best utilisation of talent while also building learning opportunities and career development for your team

  • Set and apply best practices and standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps

  • Remove impediments to delivering value

• Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organisation

The Team:

Fidelity Institutional Technology (FIT) supports our business partners to excel in their respective markets. We strive to achieve this by meticulously crafting, building, and upkeeping the software, technological infrastructure and products within Fidelity’s Institutional (FI) business units. Embedded within FIT, is the Performance Measurement & Analysis (PMA) area, which is dedicated to the creation and support of performance measurement and analysis and performance reporting software for our investment products. As a vital member of this dynamic team, your role within FI Technology will focus on providing technical and people leadership for team members in your chapter.

Certifications:

Category:

Product Management

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.