Product Development & Management
Group Squad Lead, Mainframe Recordkeeping
- Boston, MA
- Covington, KY
- Merrimack, NH
- Smithfield, RI
- Westlake, TX
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Job Description:
The Role
As a Stock Plan Services (SPS) Group Squad Lead, you will blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering results and driving scale and efficiency across the organization. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, set the mission, and bring the squad together to execute on specific results while ensuring respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures.
You will also align a unified product backlog to business strategy and outcomes, in partnership with technology, and other functional leaders as needed. You will manage squads that deliver on critical initiatives and products across the SPS Mainframe Recordkeeping platform. You will have oversight of the full lifecycle and manage dependencies, determine how to organize scrum teams and create clear accountability at the product level. You will maintain a comprehensive view of the initiatives and products and understand the complex ecosystem underlying delivery. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
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Managing Squad Leaders who are focused on delivery of the product capabilities and features.
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Defining, refining, and communicating the team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support.
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Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad.
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Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
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Partnering with technology and infrastructure teams for planning and managing upgrades.
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Inspecting and evaluating progress while removing impediments for your squads.
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Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria.
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Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
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Ensure a consistent, clear set of standard delivery routines based on stage of product lifecycle including contributing to quarterly reviews and planning.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
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10+ years of deep technical and functional experience and must possess high level analytical and coaching skills
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5+ years of product management experience, preferably in a fin-tech focused company
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Experience working with IBM Mainframe teams
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Knowledge of Stock Plan Services recordkeeping and administration
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Experience engaging and influencing multiple stakeholders across products/platforms with competing priorities and key dependencies
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Advanced level of knowledge of multiple disciplines required to perform at a senior level.
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Experience managing technology platform resiliency and security related activities such as Audit, Disaster Recovery, etc.
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Familiarity with modern test-driven development, CI-CD and DevOps practices.
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Experience working on platform modernization
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Consistent track record of developing and coaching talent
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Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
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Financial services experience preferred
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Agile experience preferred
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People management experience preferred
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Ability to take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to enhance value delivered
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A continuous improvement approach
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You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform the approach and remove impediments to making progress
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Capability to lead, influence, and motivate colleagues without formal authority, and a track record of building high-performing teams
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Strong program management and communication skills
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You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching
The Team
Stock Plan Services provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.
You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, development squads, Chapter leaders, and your key partners to define the highest priority work. While promoting agile and demonstrating the Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.
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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, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. 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.
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
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 Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.
Company overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.
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This is my Fidelity
Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way
401(k) with company match
Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave
Student loan assistance
Fidelity is invested in you
Committed to Professional Development
At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.
We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.
Continuing Education & Training
- Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
- Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
- Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
- Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
- A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.
Mentoring
- Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
- Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
- An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.
These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.
- Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
- Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
- 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.
Giving Back to Our Communities
Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.
Fidelity Cares
- Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
- Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
- Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
- More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
- Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.
Fidelity Charitable®
- Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
- Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
- Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
- Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.
