Director, Software Engineering

Fidelity Investments•Westlake, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Manages and oversees all design, development, and maintenance of mainframe and distributed applications, Cloud native applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, and high-volume transactional systems, using Java and Spring Boot frameworks. Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects and drives standardization and best practices across the firm. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions. 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 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) performing mainframe, batch, Spring, and Customer Information Control System (CICS) application development within a financial services environment.
Or, alternatively, Master degree 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) performing mainframe, batch, Spring, and Customer Information Control System (CICS) application development within a financial services environment.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing batch processing using Endevor version control, JCL, Cobol, DB2, CICS, SORT and File-Aid utility tools, and Control-M scheduling tool; and conducting performance testing on mainframe, batch, and online modules, using STROBE and SYSVIEW.
DE building batch applications using Spring Batch and JSR-352 frameworks; containerizing and deploying Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes; building data validations using rules engine; and performing performance tuning of distributed batch applications using Instana.
DE building Spring Boot applications using Kafka; building native stored procedures on DB2 using micro services architecture; and deploying Spring Boot applications using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
DE developing Cobol mainframe and distributed modules that interface with distributed and Web consumer layer modules within defined contribution record keeping functionalities.

Responsibilities

Leads solution and business architecture for Cloud capabilities across multiple business verticals, domain areas, and product areas.
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 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.