Director, Cloud Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Westlake, TX

2d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Director of Cloud Engineering, you blend deep cloud technical experience with a passion for agile product delivery. This position involves managing a team of developers whose job is to build platforms and composite solutions in support of Fidelity Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology’s cloud transformation. This position involves working on an exceptionally talented team whose job is to build cloud native application platforms and solutions in support of Fidelity’s cloud journey. The ideal candidate for this position will have a strong background in cloud technologies, product development, and experience leading technical teams in an agile fashion. They will be able to navigate and manage technical complexities while developing secure and scalable solutions for our customers. The Team The Shared Services Engineering organization is responsible for enabling Fidelity Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology to accelerate the delivery of value to Fidelity’s customers by providing cloud native composite solutions, platforms, frameworks, and security capabilities. You will be a key member of the Shared Services Engineering team who is responsible for building application platforms, composite API’s, tools and frameworks to advance the organization’s ability to leverage the public cloud for solving business problems.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree with 12 plus years of knowledge and experience working in software and cloud infrastructure engineering with various technology platforms.
Experience managing business priorities and understanding how to make tradeoffs when considering pace over perfection.
Strong Java backend API development & public cloud understanding with AWS.
Experience directing technical teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Expert in building containerized applications using Java Spring Boot and Micronaut.
Experience with Java, Python, Golang, Node JS, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Code, Helm, Terraform.
Strong communication skills with the ability to present to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience managing products delivered to technical teams.

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience in retail financial markets or another highly regulated industry.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which you build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
Intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
You enjoy helping your team grow and develop into a stronger and more efficient team
You enjoy finding opportunities to innovate and take thoughtful risks to get things done faster
You are truly client-obsessed and dedicated to understanding and learning about customer needs and requirements; both external and internal
You are comfortable working in an agile environment

Responsibilities

Assist VP of Engineering in developing and implementing a multi-year technology strategy for BRT Application Solutions aligned with enterprise priorities.
Lead modernization of components of the Application Platforms, Gateways and Composite Solutions from legacy mainframe systems to cloud native architectures.
Leading, influencing, and motivating a team of engineers focused on Cloud Migrations, API Platforms, and other business critical service interface development.
Supporting large scale, mission critical applications that cannot afford any downtime.
Solid leadership skills with the ability to recruit and develop new technical talent.
Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to BRT Application Solutions Engineering.
Delivering solutions to BRT development teams and understanding how to support them
Develop a point of view on new and emerging trends to advance solutions that result in efficiencies and faster time to market
Organizing and driving the work for your team in the most efficient manner, delivering the most value to your technical and business partners in Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology.
Actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization