Fidelity

Job Description:

As an Equity Technology Chapter Leader, you blend engineering solutions, standards and practices with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value and quality delivered to our customers, with a focus on maintainability and stability.

In an agile structure you will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your chapter, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions with your expertise and technical knowledge. You will directly manage several engineers who primarily work within autonomous squads across a product area, but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their knowledge area (technical and business) and ensure alignment on the “how” of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

You will spend a percentage of your time applying your expertise and experience to help advance the work and improve squad performance, ensuring high quality and excellent engineering standards are met.

The Teams

You work in partnership with Chapter Area Leads, Squad Leads and other Chapter Leaders aligned to Asset Management Equity Product Areas to ensure consistent standards and quality. 

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s or higher degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required
• This role requires 15+ years’ industry experience with proven technology leadership and 5 years strong people management experience
• Experience in designing and building highly scalable software solutions
• Expertise in Engineering methodologies in Mid-tier and UI development
• Strong awareness and appreciation of data tier development
• Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
• Experience identifying and acquiring talent needs; and resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Financial services experience preferred but not required

The Skills You Bring 

• You are an inspirational people leader, capable of developing others to accelerate their journey to mastery
• You possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which you build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong ability to work across numerous squads and balance the priorities of business and technology demands
• Have a continuous improvement mentality and encourage an Agile way of working
• You optimally develop and proactively share your knowledge and perspectives and build the same expectation within your chapter
• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring and coaching
• Champions practices and capability development across the squad in areas such as Quality, Automation, DevOps, CI/CD, Design, and Code Reviews

The Value You Deliver

• Ensuring chapter talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for customers and the business
• Supporting and empowering chapter members to enable delivery of increased value in their teams
• Enabling an agile and frictionless organization by demonstrating agile behaviours
• Proactively partnering with Chapter Area, Product Area Owner, Centre of Excellence, and Product Owners to:
• influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area of expertise
• measure performance through established objectives and KPI’s to deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• align chapter members across squads and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and learning day content to develop skills
• set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps
• remove impediments to delivering value
• Actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization
• Collaborate with chapter leadership team to reduce technical debt and modernize applications
• Continuously focus on improving stability and resiliency of applications and batch processes
• Relentlessly work on improving engineering standards and quality

Category:

Information Technology