Director, Software Engineering

The Role

Builds and deploys applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Cloud. Designs, develops, and programs applications using DevOps best practice, Java, and Python or Go. Creates transformative identity management solutions across multiple digital experiences and products to ensure reusability, scalability, and efficiency.

Partners with the business/product sponsors, Agile team leads, and software engineers to deliver new features. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
• Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.
• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology applications.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Researches and recommends new technologies.
• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs. Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing products to support platform applications.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Information Management, Business Administration, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing products to support platform applications.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing Object-Oriented design and Java Web application development, using Java/J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Jersey, SOAP, RESTful Web Services, and LWC; and developing micro-services architecture using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• DE improving the security of applications and distributed caching — Ignite/ Hazelcast and Cloud Elasticaches (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Redis to be consumed by APIs) — to achieve faster data results, using Web security technologies (OAuth Encrypted Key Management, Applications Secrets Management, and SAML), AWS KMS, and AWS Crypto to improve the security.
• DE developing and maintaining responsive UI applications, using JavaScript frameworks, JQuery, Node.js, Handlebar JS, AJAX, Express, and Bootstrap CSS; performing unit and functional testing for API and Selenium IDE/Jest User Interfaces (UIs), using Junit, Mockito, Powermockito, and Chakram; and developing virtual assets for functional and scalability testing, using Parasoft Virtualize, and Wiremocks.
• DE integrating build processes according to Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), using Jenkins as a CI platform and Urban Deploy as a CD platform; and deploying REST microservice applications in AWS using Cloud Formation Template (CFT).

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.