Director- Software Engineering

Director – Full Stack Engineering (Options Overlay) 

Location: BOS 

Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS) is looking for a Director – Full Stack Engineering (Options Overlay), to join a full stack dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of complex financial products, leveraging your expertise in derivatives and software engineering. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for setting technical direction and being a subject matter expert in the new Options Overlay product being built. 

You will lead multiple squads responsible for building a brand-new platform that will enable us to launch a new Options Overlay Product (Liquid Alts) within FAMS. This is a unique opportunity to be part of something special from the ground up. FAMS is an exciting growth area for Fidelity under the Investment Frontier Neighborhood (IFN), and you will work on broadening the portfolio of capabilities within the new Liquid Alts product that employs several different Market Instruments including Derivatives, Equities.  

** This position is based out of BOSTON only. 

The Expertise We are Looking For  

• You care deeply about doing excellent work with excellent people. 

• You have a BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or equivalent and you want to learn more. 

• A minimum of 10+ years of software engineering experience. 

• Perform coding and development as needed and also Provide technical and strategic leadership to a team of software engineers focused on developing and deploying overlay strategies. 

• Proven ability to lead and motivate high-performing teams. 

• Ability to set ambitious standards in applying practices across the squad in areas such as Unit testing, Automation, ATDD, DevOps, CI/CD, design, and code reviews. 

• You have extensive experience in leading the development of enterprise quality platforms using Angular / Java, Spring Boot, RESTful services / Oracle SQL & PLSQL and deep familiarity in at least one other. 

• Strong inclination towards Quality centric platform engineering. 

• Deep understanding of Cloud Technologies such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Kubernetes would be an advantage. 

• Ability to work on complex business and technical domain, Investment Management/ Financial Business Domain would be beneficial. 

• You are currently working towards CFA 

The Purpose of Your Role 

We will welcome you onto an agile track that is at the forefront of engineering in Asset Management Technology, FAMS with a prominent level of focus on ATDD, Continuous Integration/Delivery and engineering excellence. We want to work with a Senior Engineering Leader who is versatile, always eager to take on the latest problems and share solutions as we push the technology forward. Working independently as well as collaboratively, it is paramount for this person to have a positive ‘can-do’ approach to teamwork. 

The Skills You Bring 

• Having excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to run with multiple tasks at a given time. 

• Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to your team. 

• Coach and mentor more junior members of the team. 

• You thrive in a team environment, collaborating openly and actively contributing to how work gets completed. 

The Value You Deliver 

• Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements. 

• Actively contribute to evangelize engineering practices such as code and design reviews and the definition of source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipeline. 

• Work with product owner, technical leads and architect as required to influence technical improvements to the platform. 

• Develop a keen understanding of the business domain you are working on and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties. 

• Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates.