Job Description:

The Role

As a Team Lead for ECS Application Security, you’ll combine deep engineering expertise with a passion for developing high-performing teams. In our agile, cloud-first environment, you’ll set technical standards, influence strategic decisions, and deliver enterprise-scale application security solutions that keep the firm cybersafe. You’ll mentor engineers and analysts to design and implement secure, scalable systems that enable innovation while protecting our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at scale at Fidelity.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Growth

  • Define and drive team strategy, roadmap, and vision.

  • Mentor and develop engineers and analysts, fostering technical growth and professional development.

  • Manage workforce planning and performance goals aligned to business priorities.

Delivery & Execution

  • Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

  • Responsible for defining and owning roadmap and vision.

  • Accountable for the delivery of the roadmap, clearly defining and articulating the evolutionary steps/milestones to achieve the overall vision.

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure impactful, customer-focused outcomes.

Engineering Excellence

  • Drive Secure-SDLC adoption, including secrets management, SAST, SCA, and DAST where appropriate.

  • Improve automation, test coverage, release velocity, and production health.

  • Own and enforce technical standards, code reviews, and architectural guidance.

Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management

  • Partner with leadership across engineering, business, and operations teams to align on security priorities.

  • Lead data-driven decisions on trade-offs, capacity planning, and risk.

  • Communicate clearly, deliver updates, rationales, blockers, and outcomes to peers and senior leaders.

Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership

  • Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and frameworks.

  • Promote a culture of continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and education.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 12+ years in IT and 5+ years in people & technical leadership.

  • Proven track record delivering scalable, cloud-native software with Secure-SDLC practices.

  • Strong foundation in systems architecture, SDLC, Agile, AWS, and DevSecOps.

  • Data-driven mindset, experience driving strategic decisions through analytics and metrics.

  • Excellent communicator and influencer; skilled in stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Passion for coaching, able to elevate junior and senior team members alike.

  • Practical experience setting strategic vision and delivering on roadmaps.

  • Expertise in application security tools a plus e.g. secrets scanning, SAST, DAST, SCA.

Category:

Information Technology