Summary

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:

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

Coaching & Mentoring:

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

Hands-on Engineering:

1. Acquires expertise in Fidelity-specific practices while knowing the latest with industry standards. Shapes engineering guidelines, ensuring they remain up-to-date with the latest industry trends.
2. Works on strategic projects that span multiple business units and product teams. Provides technical guidance and leadership. Gets into details and takes on development activities.
3. Serves as the steward of tech vision, delivers on complex projects with a focus on incremental value delivery to achieve the tech vision.

Scope:

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

The Skills You Bring

1. 8 + years hands on experience as a full stack software engineer
2. Deep expertise in programming languages and frameworks such as Java, Angular, and Spring.
3. Skilled in all aspects of software development lifecycle
4. Expertise in designing, building, and supporting high transaction applications
5. Experience in building responsive front end applications using typescript, angular, or node
6. Skilled in building service oriented applications using java, spring, and camel
7. Deep experience enabling scalability, availability, intelligent monitoring, and performance
8. Excellent leadership, communication, collaboration, and influencing skills
9. Demonstrated ability to coach, mentor, and develop technology associates
10. Robust critical thinking and problem-solving skills

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration