Job Description:

Fidelity Brokerage Technology is looking for a Director of Software Engineering as a member of our team. While working to deliver business capabilities across a globally distributed team of IT professionals, the team continually strives to advance engineering excellence, technology innovation and agile practices. Must be a self-starter and visionary, able to work well with others, and communicate software changes to business partners, system analysts, QA engineers, etc.

The Role

This role will focus on infrastructure and production support, designing, implementing, and deploying infrastructure upgrades from outdated to current technology for highly scaled secure financial services for consumer and professional brokerage Web applications. The candidate will drive direction while working with project managers, systems analysts, offshore resources, tech leads, quality assurance, and architects to build solutions that meet critical business needs. Expected to possess Expert level problem solving skills and the ability to translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.

Provides production support through triage, design, and the implementation of software changes for post-production and security defects (SCR’s)

Develops software in support of infrastructure initiatives, including application and Web server and tech stack upgrades

Works with external vendors (Microsoft, Amazon) to certify, debug, and fix issues related to third party software

Uses business knowledge to translate the vision for divisional initiatives into business solutions by developing complex or multiple software applications

Analyzes and recommends changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management

Develops and maintains partnerships across the organization

Specifies technical design approach and standards

Provides guidelines and develops standards for inspections

Provides ongoing assessment for improvement to application design

Determines boundary and relationship between technical architecture and application layer

Creates new design concepts and processes that improve the quality of technical design development

Remains current with evolving product design and development tools, techniques, and materials

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

Solid foundation in Computer Science, with competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

Experience with the following technologies (or similar):

10+ years of development experience with expert working knowledge of Java, HTML5 and CSS3

Expert level experience with web services (JSON, XML, REST, SOAP, etc.)

Continuous Integration – Jenkins / Stash / Git

Unit Testing – JUnit / Jasmine

Application Framework – Angular 2+ / Spring

4+ years of experience in Agile development

Advanced AWS Cloud Computing experience required

Experience with Jira

Champions innovative technology solutions to resolve complex business problems

Works across groups to find opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives

Brings external information, ideas, and expertise back to the team

Expert understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning

Possesses in-depth knowledge of technology, applications and interfaces designed to support the business

Demonstrates expertise in all technologies relevant to responsibilities, including communications, languages, environments, operating systems and databases

Provides leadership and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on sophisticated organization-wide projects

Provides technical supervision on multiple, complex projects

Advises senior management on technical strategy

Evaluates and recommends new technologies

Review and validates new application solutions

Anticipates issues and challenges affecting application functionality

Maintains deep understanding of application

Procures and implements additions to application portfolio while maintaining fiscal responsibility

Align application functionality with business requirements and strategy

Certifications:

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award(opens in a new tab), we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2022. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

As a result of COVID-19, many of our associates are continuing to work remotely. When Fidelity employees eventually return to the office, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working(opens in a new tab).” 

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.