Director, Software Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

Position Description: Establishes the standards for the chapter, influences the strategic decisions, delivers solutions, and directly manages a team of chapter members who work within autonomous squads. Works in an Agile delivery environment. Develops software and deep understanding of the software life cycle stages. Leads, coaches, mentors, and develops people and teams. Identifies and acquires talent needs. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Primary Responsibilities: Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy. Provides 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 development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit. Consults on deployment of major project deliverables. Consults on the documentation of major technology application. 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. Regularly 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 business unit.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing mainframe modernization of brokerage and large-scale transaction processing systems using EC2 and EKS-based tools.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing mainframe modernization of brokerage and large-scale transaction processing systems using EC2 and EKS-based tools.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) building, deploying, and running Cloud-based container platforms within Amazon Web Services (AWS) utilizing Stratum Gateway, Java, S3, Kafka and Oracle.
DE delivering projects according to Agile principles -- DevOps, FinOps, and CI/CD methodologies; and liaising with delivery teams, stakeholders, and executive management to ensure streamlined project delivery and product management.
DE designing, developing, and testing large, high-volume, highly available, fault tolerant, and real-time transaction processing platforms within financial services ecosystems using Java, EC2, EKS, Kafka, API Gateway, or auto scaling capabilities; and providing financial and operational insight on Cloud resource usage using Apptio.
DE managing multi-location software engineering teams, outsourced professional services staff, and enterprise stakeholders, using Jira and Jira-Align; and resolving functional and technical roadblocks cost/benefit analysis, and decision-making trees in a highly dynamic and complex ecosystem, using Affinity mapping.

Responsibilities

Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy.
Provides 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 development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
Consults on the documentation of major technology application.
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.
Regularly 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 business unit.