Director, Software Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

Position Description: Crafts and implements operational data stores and warehouses in multi-site High Availability (HA) environments. Migrates databases and warehouses from on-premises to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Designs data processing pipelines and resilient messaging services. Architects engineering solutions using AWS RDS, high availability Cloud Distributed RDBMS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Shell Scripting, Informatica, REST API, real-time integration with Kafka, Control-M scheduler, and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies. Performs build and deploy activities, using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools – AWS CFT, Jenkins, Groove Script, Maven, and Udeploy. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing and developing complex data models, and migration and integration/replication strategies, using Oracle, PostgreSQL database development and administration, Informatica, advanced PL/SQL, SQL optimization, AWS DMS and RDS, and REST based APIs.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) designing and developing complex data models, and migration and integration/replication strategies, using Oracle, PostgreSQL database development and administration, Informatica, advanced PL/SQL, SQL optimization, AWS DMS and RDS, and REST based APIs.
Candidate must also possess: Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing event driven and pub-sub model, real-time data integrations using stream processing technologies -- Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka Connect; supporting financial BI systems (Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) by developing batch jobs to load data into Cloud applications on AWS using Cloud Data migration tools -- AWS RDS; and monitoring performance/metrics using Cloud watch, Datadog, and Splunk dashboards.
DE designing and developing complex data models, and migration and integration/replication strategies, using Oracle, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Advanced PL/SQL, and SQL optimization; and supporting fee calculation and billing for managed solution revenue streams, using Java, Spring, and LWC framework.
DE developing complex CI/CD pipelines to support bundle automation and rigid deployments, using Udeploy, Maven, Jenkins, Stash, Ansible, and Docker configuration; writing AWS CFT templates and UNIX Shell Scripts to execute process workflows and mappings within a Control M job; and developing automated test scripts -- Postman and Selenium.
DE designing and implementing Customer Identity Master Data Management (MDM) solutions that drive customer experiences and enable insights using IBM Infosphere; managing vendor relationships and driving issues to a timely resolution; collaborating in an autonomous team by owning all aspects and leading the development of data applications in Cloud environments – AWS and Azure; analyzing Customer and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) information to determine, recommend, and plan computer software specifications on major projects and propose modifications and improvements.

Responsibilities

Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
Performs, implements, and documents process, data analysis, quality, governance, and lineage models in support defined use cases.
Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy.
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.
Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.