The Role

As FI Data Enablement and Analytics Platform Squad Leader, you blend deep knowledge of data platforms, analytics/data-science and BI tooling expertise with a passion for delivering results. As the product owner you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on specific product features through data enablement. You will lead a team responsible for the buildout of FI’s analytics layer, supporting business intelligence and data science squads across the organization. You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

• Leading a technical team of engineer’s responsible for enabling ease of access and reuse of data amongst the analytics community, supporting Business Intelligence and AI/ML development
• Will work in close partnership with Technology and Data Foundation Product Area’s to assess and prioritize data needs
• Responsible for the building curated and semantic data layers that bring to bear the power of Enterprise Analytics Platform
• Close collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence COE and FI Data and Insights Chapter leads to understand, prioritize and execute on their core needs
• Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to empower and build team and partner support and alignment
• Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team
• Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria
• Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments
• Measuring performance against established objectives and KPI’s that deliver on agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• Collaborating and coordinating with Chapter Leaders and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development and learning
• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor's degree (or above) in either Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Information Systems, Mathematics or Finance related field
• Hands on prior experience developing reporting, analytics and/or AI insights is required
• Expertise leading a team of engineers on technical delivery of solutions at enterprise scale
• Strong background working with and leading implementation of universal semantic layers and related tooling (AtScale, Kyligence, Denodo)
• Experience supporting data science development through Model Ready Data and Feature capabilities
• Experience with cloud ML ecosystems such as AWS SageMaker and Azure ML
• Experience working with cloud data store providers such as Snowflake
• Financial services experience, preferred
• Agile experience
• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred
• You take a data-focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, and prioritize to improve value delivered
• You grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and effectively communicate these
• You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate and remove impediments to progress
• You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building successful teams
• You continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
• You have or are committed to developing a balance of technology and non-technology skills in order to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers

The Team

You work in partnership with the Common Capabilities Product Area Leader, other Squad Leaders, Scrum Master, and Chapter Leaders aligned to your squad. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you sustain and evolve our innovative agile culture.

Benefits With You in Mind

Benefits for your whole life – that’s what you’ll find at Fidelity.

You’ll find everything from perks that makes your daily life better to those big-picture, life-changing resources to support you at all stages of your life. We have an amazing package of benefits and programs designed to help you thrive – both in and outside of work.

Family Programs

• Adoption assistance
• Backup dependent care
• Maternity & parental leave (Up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and 12 weeks of paid parental leave)
• Dependent care flexible spending account (FSA)

Wellness Programs

• On-site health & wellness centers
• Fitness reimbursement program
• Nutritional counseling
• Healthy dining program

Retirement Planning

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Eligible associates can make pre-tax and/or Roth after-tax contributions, and Fidelity will match you contributions dollar-for-dollar up to 7% of your eligible compensation.
• For eligible associates, Fidelity may make an annual Profit Sharing contribution of up to 10% of your eligible compensation.*

Health & Insurance

• Medical coverage
• Dental & vision coverage
• Disability Insurance
• Fidelity Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)

Education Benefits

• Student loan assistance – helping you pay down your loans so you can save on interest, with up to $15K in contributions
• Tuition reimbursement program

* Albuquerque-based regular employees, excluding individuals employed in a retail branch location, are not eligible to receive the Profit Sharing contribution.