Director, Software Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Merrimack, NH

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

Position Description: Builds and deploys REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using Java and Spring Boot. Implements Test-Driven Development or Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD) and unit testing using various frameworks. Builds automation pipelines by leveraging DevOps concepts and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools – Jenkins, GitHub, Cloudbees, uDeploy and Pivotal Concourse. Builds, stores, and manages data using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Develops complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve solutions. Primary Responsibilities: Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level. Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams. Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs. Consults on the development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the organization. Consults on deployment of major project deliverables. Consults on the documentation of major technology applications. Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components. Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues. Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization. Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives. Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects. Advises senior management on technical strategy. Researches and recommends new technologies. Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives. Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development. Identifies and plans for future resource needs. Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) providing technical direction and architectural solutions to solve business problems, using Agile methodologies in a financial services environment.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) providing technical direction and architectural solutions to solve business problems, using Agile methodologies in a financial services environment.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) providing technical direction and architectural solutions to solve business problems according to the Agile Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology in a financial services environment, using Spring framework, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Kubernetes, Kafka, Terracore, and draw.io.
DE performing Agile development to settle Derivatives and Fund of Fund product types in a financial services environment, using Spring Boot, Akka, Calypso, Control-M, VM Gemfire, and Java; and monitoring open trades and developing functions to reconcile them against accounting system using Amazon Lambda, Amazon EKS, and Amazon S3.
DE defining roadmaps, product visions, and work alignment for a Scrum team using Agile framework in a financial services environment; resolving production incidents, participating in incident and crisis management to assess business impact, and determining root cause and facilitating workarounds using JiraAlign (to coordinate project dependencies) and ServiceNow (to coordinate and resolve production incidents); analyzing organizational dynamics and adapting proposals to navigate constraints; and defining logical relationships among key architectural components, while analyzing and revising existing systems logic using SQL Database Modeler and PowerDesigner.
DE scoping and estimating efforts, resource planning, communication, and program increment planning; and assessing the performance of team members, providing developmental opportunities for associates, and coaching team members to achieve success using Human Capital Management (HCM) tools (Workday and MS Project Planner).

Responsibilities

Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams.
Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
Consults on the development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the organization.
Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
Consults on the documentation of major technology applications.
Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
Advises senior management on technical strategy.
Researches and recommends new technologies.
Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the organization.