Job Description:

The Role

As a Chapter Area Leader for Fixed Income, FFO, and Trading Services (FIFT), you blend deep application engineering knowledge with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing managers and associates. You will manage a team of Chapter Leaders guiding an organization of over 90 full-stack software engineers in the US developing the tools and systems in support of our product areas. You bring expertise and experience in engineering, technical design, systems management, and leading impactful teams. You are driven to build extraordinary organizations with strong community. You understand how best to coordinate work, teams, and engineering solutions to deliver maximum value in pursuit of business capabilities. In our Agile framework, you will ensure that prioritized work is delivered without compromising engineering excellence. You will lead a group of chapter members working within squads across multiple product areas. You actively bring new ideas, approaches and insights to improve the work and develop new skills and capabilities in your area, enabling associate growth while adding greater value. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to share that knowledge with others.

• Ensuring chapter area talent composition and workforce planning are clearly aligned to deliver value and results for prioritized work

• Supporting, mentoring, developing and enabling your managers to build the environment allowing our squads to bring their very best work to bear on business challenges

• Ensuring enterprise technology initiatives and lifecycle efforts are planned and incorporated into product area roadmaps and backlogs appropriately

• Proactively partnering and negotiating with other technology leaders and key business partners to influence strategic decisions and priorities to address technology deficits and overall cost of ownership

• Collaborating with our investment professionals to prioritize work, remove impediments, and bring value to Fidelity's customers through our efforts

• Measuring performance through established measures to deliver agreed upon business, technology, and talent objectives

• Supporting Chapter Leaders to ensure optimization of chapter member talent while defining and building learning opportunities connected to the strategic direction of the domain and product areas

• Reinforcing consistency in and application of standards across chapters / squads, and with similar enterprise groups

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Minimum of 15 years of software engineering and development management experience

• BS degree in Computer Science or related software engineer field or equivalent experience

• Experience working in an Agile environment which emphasizes value prioritization and flexibility in capacity allocation

• Experience in multiple layers of the technology stack including data, middle-tier, and front-end capabilities

• You have strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills and the ability to engage and influence at all levels of the organization

• Senior level experience leading, coaching, mentoring and developing people and teams

• Experience identifying and acquiring strategic talent needs; and strategic resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations

The Team

The FIFT organization crafts all the technology systems used in Fixed Income for the Bond and Money Market Product areas. FIFT also handles common trading services as well as the systems used for Finance and Fund Oversight. The applications and services provided enable investment decision making, portfolio management, and trading for combined assets under management of nearly $2 trillion. Through our Agile practices, we have developed an operating rhythm that ensures we are consistently delivering the highest value work for our customers and partners. We work on a wide variety of technologies including AWS, Angular, Java, Python, REST/API, PL/SQL, HTML and Kafka.

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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 every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.