Chapter Leader

Job Description:

As a Strategic Advisors Technology Chapter Leader, you blend deep Engineering solutions and practices with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. 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. You will directly manage a team of chapter members 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 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.

The Team

You work in partnership with Squad Leaders and other Chapter Leaders aligned to the Model Management Product Area. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you evolve and sustain our innovative, agile culture. The team partners with the investment teams in Strategic Advisors on various projects including model construction, portfolio construction and trading Managed Accounts. We create high quality, robust, and efficient high-responsive solutions that are used to enhance Strategic Advisors productivity and decision-making processes.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.

• This role requires 10+ years of proven technology leadership experience in designing and building highly scalable software solutions.
• Expertise in Engineering methodologies in at least one tier of the stack and strong awareness and appreciation in the other tiers.
• 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

• Oversight of design, implementation of secure, scalable, and highly available enterprise systems utilizing Amazon Web Services
• Proficiency with distributed platforms with a solid understanding of non-functional requirements, crucial for developing robust applications
• Facilitate technical mentorship for your team in terms of PL/SQL, Java Webservice & JavaScript development. Familiarity with frameworks like SpringBoot, Angular and knowledge of Messaging technologies like Kafka is desirable
• Promotes practices and capability development across the squad in areas such as Quality, Automation, DevOps, CI/CD, Design, and Code Reviews
• Oversees the management of the technology backlog for the platform, collaborating closely with other Chapter leads to ensure team is meeting Technology Lifecycle Management KPIs.
• Collaboration with a diverse, global team to ensure seamless integration and delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• 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
• 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
• You take a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses

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 behaviors
• Proactively partnering with Chapter Area, Product Area Owner, Center 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 tribes 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

Company Culture 

At Fidelity, you can find it all here. We reward ambitious, passionate individuals with a work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration as well as encourages innovative ideas and fresh thinking. We recognize the value that employees’ individual differences can contribute to the bright and strong future of our company.

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