VP Software Engineering

The Role 

This role offers a unique opportunity to work for a nimble, fast-moving company with a start-up feel, but with the resources, stability, and brand recognition of Fidelity Investments. The role also provides the opportunity to work collaboratively with business partners who are co-located, and to develop and coach a multi-region technology team. The position will require deep technical expertise, technical mentoring, cross-team collaboration with a diverse engineering team, and the ability to partner with Product Area Leaders and Squad Leaders to deliver technology initiatives. 

The Expertise and Skills You Bring 

• 2+ years’ experience working at the Vice President level in a software engineering group. 

• 6+ years’ experience as a software development manager or related role with a consistent track record of software delivery through all phases of development

• A proven track record of interviewing and/or handling and leading software engineers 

• 10+ years of software development – front end, middle tier and back end 

• 4-5+ years of client-side UI development experience

• 4-5+ years of Responsive Web Design – Development experience and Web Accessibility

• Experience with Angular.js, Angular, JavaScript, Typescript, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Java, and Microservices architecture.

• Recent experience as a full-time people manager required.

• Serve as a lead in the design and implementation of extensive web-based applications.

• Guide in development of standard methodologies for the full software creation process, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, test automation and continuous integration.

• Provide technical leadership to all team members.

• Strategic thinking with focus on the delivery and quality

• Proven negotiation, problem solving and conflict management skills.

• Ability to motivate and build a results-oriented implementation team delivering strategic software products and services.

• Proven knowledge and skills to guide your team to deliver on business results. 

• Strong organizational, coaching & mentoring skills. 

• Deep understanding of Agile Development Methodologies 

• Experience with Cloud technologies. 

The Team 

Fidelity Charitable software engineers develop next-generation technology that directly impacts how our customers accomplish their philanthropic goals. As an engineering leader within our technology group you will help take Fidelity Charitable applications to the next level of evolution. As a member of the team you’ll craft and influence creative solutions that meet not only functional, but also performance, scalability and reliability requirements.