Technology
Director, Full Stack Engineering – Financial Crimes Technology
- Westlake, TX
- Merrimack, NH
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Job Description:
Director, Full Stack Engineering – Financial Crimes Technology
The Role
As the Financial Crimes Technology Chapter Leader, in an agile structure, you blend deep full stack development experience and knowledge of agile software engineering practices to deliver large-scale highly available, resilient, secure, scalable, cloud native digital enterprise applications combined with a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers, establishing or partnering to develop technical standards for your area and influencing the strategic decisions, solution development and work priorities. You will directly manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous squads across product areas but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their technical knowledge area and ensure alignment on the “how” of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own technical expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.
People Management
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Allocate chapter member expertise across squads & manage chapter member growth and development, in partnership with Product Area & Squad Leaders
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Identify current and future skill requirements for chapter members in partnership with Squad Leaders
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Align chapter members in partnership with Product Area and Squad leaders across squads and product areas, to ensure the best utilization of talent while creating mobility and learning opportunities and informing learning day content to develop required skills
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Set clear performance expectations by grade level and actively manage to those expectations
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Manage, develop and empower associates within Chapter to aid in career growth and enable delivery of increased value in their teams
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Create an environment that champions inclusivity, sustainable pace, psychological safety, transparency, and open and honest feedback
Strategic Thinking and Impact
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Proactively partner with Chapter Area, Product Area, Center of Excellence, and Squad Leaders
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Define and align chapter strategy with squad/product area objectives & roadmap
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Help shape and evolve chapter area-wide best engineering practices and strategies, setting standards ensuring work performed is aligned with established roadmaps, create and execute the required technical and domain knowledge training
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Influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions for the supported squads
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Measure performance through established objectives and KPIs to deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
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Proactively remove impediments to delivering business value
Technical Leadership
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Have a co-founder mindset by sharing the same passion and vision for the product as do product partners, having a relentless customer focus and a strong sense of ownership and accountability for the outcome
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Provide the supported to your squads with technical leadership, guidance on TLM updates, solution recommendations to technical issues including support for production issues resolution
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Drive the adoption of Observability ,end-to-end Reliability maturities, and Operational Readiness
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Be a strong influencer in the chapter and product area for relentless adoption of engineering efficiencies (maybe combine with the previous bullet)
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Own the technical outcome of all initiatives in your Chapter Area
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Help your squads find gaps in the existing processes and frameworks to enable the delivery of highest quality secure resilient products
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Be a single point of contact from your Chapter Area to respective Squad Leaders for all things tech and delivery accountability
Technical Expertise
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Establish and instill engineering standards and expertise for the supported by you squads
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Stay current on the evolving needs and requirements of customers
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Maintain knowledge & expertise on internal & external market & industry trends & changes
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Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization
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Apply your deep expertise with DevOps CI/CD practices, TDD/BDD, automated security, quality, performance and chaos testing, modern test and mock frameworks and service virtualization tools to rapidly deliver, measure, and iterate features to customers while minimizing risk using practices like A/B tests, blue-green deployments, and feature toggles
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Have deep hands-one experience with building AWS-native Java/SpringBoot REST APIs; working experience with PowerApps, Google RPC, Kafka and the CQRS pattern is a plus.
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Instill the culture of customer obsession, operational readiness and rigorous production on-call discipline where any impact to the firm’s brand or customer experience is proactively triaged and addressed in a timely manner
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
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A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field
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10+ years of expertise in designing and building large-scale highly available, resilient, secure, scalable, cloud-native (AWS, Azure) digital enterprise applications on micro-services, serverless and event-driven architectures using domain driven design and 12-factor app patterns
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Experience leading complex technical solutions as an engineering thought leader with a broad impact and scope across geographically dispersed and/or global teams
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Background in enterprise development experience to coach and partner on technology standards in Java, SpringBoot, Kafka, CI/CD processes and demonstratable experience in cloud migration strategies
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Deep knowledge and experience of engineering principles, patterns and practices and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement
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Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
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Experience identifying and acquiring talent needs
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Resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
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Financial services experience
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Agile leadership experience
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
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Continuous improvement
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Data-focused approach to decision making
The Team
You work in partnership with Squad Leaders and other Chapter Leaders aligned to Corporate Technology Group Risk and Legal Technology product area. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you evolve and sustain our innovative, agile culture. You enable the build out of the digital cloud-native Fraud platform to protect the Fidelity customer, reduce fraud and drive technology simplicity across the product area. Your focus is on delivering end-to-end cloud-native digital solutions where quality, scalability, resiliency and security are highest priorities.
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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. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
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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What tech makes you tick?
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.
Licenses & Certifications
- Pursue excellence in new coding languages or tech applications across a broad range of technical paths.
- Tuition reimbursement for online or in-person course work in pursuit of new certifications.
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.
- 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.
Web-Based Learning
- Online, video-based training that covers a broad range of technology, leadership, and management topics.
- Access to thousands of the latest and most relevant business books – all summarized in just a few pages.
- Train from your desk or the comfort of your home.
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.
