Job Description:

Digital Platforms Director, Software Engineering (Individual Contributor)

Are you excited about applying your full stack engineering skills to build Enterprise Digital Experiences for customers of Fidelity Investments?

 

Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) Digital Platforms Technology team designs, develops, implements, and supports an Enterprise suite of Digital applications. This role requires a blend of hands- on engineering and technical leadership across multiple teams. 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. Though this is an Individual Contributor role, you will also provide guidance and mentor developers within the wider digital platforms’ technology team.

The Skills You Bring

• 8 + years hands on experience as a full stack software engineer
• Modern expertise in programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Angular, and Spring.
• Skilled in all aspects of software development lifecycle
• Expertise in designing, building, and supporting high transaction applications
• Experience in building responsive front end applications using typescript, angular, or node 
• Skilled in building service-oriented applications using java, spring, and camel
• Hands-on experience in continuous integration and delivery practices; Jenkins experience strongly preferred
• Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
• Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop technology associates
• Robust critical thinking and problem-solving skills

The Value You Deliver

Strategy & Planning:

• Defines and executes on tech vision in consultation with architecture, engineering 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:

• Builds expertise in Fidelity practices and continuously monitors industry advancements. Leads the creation and maintenance of engineering standards to ensure relevance and innovation.
• Works on strategic projects that span multiple business units and product teams.  Provides technical guidance and leadership getting into the details and taking on development and guidance.
• Serves as the steward of tech vision, delivers on complex projects with a focus on incremental value delivery to achieve the tech vision.

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.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization-

Our Team’s goal is to build enterprise 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 & directing the development of high performance, responsive user interfaces. Our systems professionals thrive, with a steadfast dedication to innovation, which champions a culture of continuous improvement and significant achievement. We see ourselves as a vital link to Fidelity's customers. This is a fast-paced group that is using ground-breaking technologies to build powerful tools and outstanding user experiences for our customers.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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.