Director, NX Workspace Engineer - Front End

The Role

Director, NX Workspace Engineer

Fidelity is seeking to hire a seasoned technical lead front-end engineer to join our Web Platform team. You will partner with the members of your squad to deliver outstanding customer experiences and set the direction for front end engineering excellence within Fidelity’s web platform. As a Director / Technical Lead Engineer, your mission will include:

• Empowering engineers at Fidelity working within our NX Workspaces to deliver innovative features with high velocity and quality by providing foundational libraries, frameworks, and tools for development, testing, and release.
• With a focus on web-specific technologies and integrations, you will drive implementation and standardization of shared tools across Fidelity in an actively hands-on approach.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

• Possess 10+ years demonstrated professional experience as a hands-on front-end software engineer using modern JavaScript frameworks. 
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in solution architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages. 
• 3+ years’ experience maintaining NX Workspaces or development of NX plugins creating generators & executors.
• 3+ years’ experience or solid working knowledge of current DevOps practices and current CI + CD frameworks 
• Software Engineering skills and experience include.
  • Angular, Typescript, NX Workspace, HTML, CSS, JavaScript 
  • Karma/Jasmine, Jest, Cypress, Playwright 
  • Web Components, Component Architecture 
  • GraphQL / Rest API
  • GIT, Jenkins, Node.js 
  • DevOps – CI/CD delivery code (Groovy or other) 
  • Managing Shared Libraries, working with design systems required.
  • WCAG 2.1 and AA/AAA Standards would be a plus.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to provide technical leadership to junior team members.
• Ability to engage with multiple groups to prototype solutions and provide common solutions. 
• Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration. 
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and software engineers. Seek opportunities to refactor business processes, improve user experience or perform capability rationalization. 
• In-depth knowledge of APIs, infrastructure, data architecture. Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. 
• Champion, identify, and drive development standards to improve quality, efficiency, reliability, and consistency. 
• Partner across the chapter and product areas to define and implement engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices. 
• Provide front end engineering thought leadership to advance the Digital Experience 
• Collaborate with technology and business partners across Fidelity to provide strategic input into the long-term direction and roadmaps. 
• Ability to see the “big picture” impact of small decisions made in the present and the ability to influence and empower others to do the same. 
• Learn quickly, be flexible, adapt and strive to excel in a fast paced, changing environment. 
• Ability to be highly organized, very responsive, and committed to quality and ambitious standards. 
• Grow front end engineering talent through coaching and mentoring. 

The Team

The NX Workspace Web Platform team focuses on creating a unified developer experience across Fidelity and will be involved in the hands-on creation of standardized tools for testing frameworks, developer environments, bundler and build system implementations, CI jobs, client libraries for observability and experimentation, editor integrations, and REST + GraphQL implementations. Our goal is to create an environment that empowers productive development without compromising quality. The team will directly impact the productivity and experience of front-end developers across multiple product areas and business units.