The Role

As FI AI/ML Platform Squad Leader, you blend analytics, technical and data science 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 deliver on specific product features that enable analytics and data science work across Fidelity Institutional (FI). 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.

• Directing a team of Machine Learning Engineers (MLE) responsible for the organizations AI/ML platform and delivering scalable analytic solutions to support the business
• Collaborating with the Artificial Intelligence COE and data science leads to understand, anticipate and support their efforts
• Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to motivate 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
• Experience in leading a technical team or leading end-to-end technology solution delivery is preferred
• Experience with cloud ML ecosystems such as AWS SageMaker and Azure ML as well as MLOps platform providers or capabilities
• Experience or familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container-orchestration systems such as Kubernetes
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining dynamic products and solutions
• 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 optimally 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 high-performing 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.