Director, Front End Engineering - Individual Contributor

Job Description:

The Role

As a hands-on Director, Front End Engineering - Individual Contributor you will help deliver the best digital experience for Workplace Investing's Enterprise Profile products. This includes leading the definition and implementation of best in class engineering solutions and enabling engineering excellence across the chapter. You will play a hands-on role driving the overall technical implementations. You will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors, Agile team leads and software engineers to deliver our new features.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• MUST have 5+ years hands on experience as front end software engineer using modern Angular versions.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in solution architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.
• 1+ years of using Nx workspace
• Currently working hands on with designing, building, and supporting high transaction applications
• Bachelor's and/or Masters degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience
• Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for agile teams.
• Ability to engage with multiple squads to prototype solutions, deliver architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, and product roadmaps.
• Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and software engineers. Seek opportunities to refactor business processes, improve user experience or perform capability rationalization.
• In-depth knowledge of APIs, infrastructure, data architecture.
• Demonstrated understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
• Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred.

Background in the following skills

• Angular, Typescript, NX Workspace, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Karma/Jasmine, Jest, Mocha
• Web Components, Component Architecture
• WCAG 2.1 and AA/AAA Standards
• GIT, Jenkins, Node.js
• Managing Shared Libraries, Working with design systems

The Value You Deliver

• Champion, identify, and drive development standards to improve quality, efficiency, reliability, and consistency
• Partner across the chapter area and product area to define and implement engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices
• Provide front end engineering thought leadership to advance the Digital Experience
• Collaborate with technology and business partners across Fidelity to provide strategic input into the long-term direction and roadmaps
• Ability to see the "big picture" impact of small decisions made in the present and are able to influence and empower others to do the same
• Learn quickly, be flexible, adapt and strive to excel in a fast paced, changing environment
• Ability to be highly organized, very responsive, and committed to quality and high standards
• Grow front end engineering talent though coaching and mentoring

The Team

Fidelity's Workplace Investing (WI) Digital Platforms Technology team designs, develops, implements, and supports WI's suite of Digital applications. We are passionate about delivering innovative solutions that exceed our customer's needs. We embrace diversity of thought and experience. Our team thrives with a steadfast dedication to innovation which promotes a culture of continuous improvement and significant product advancement. This is a fast-paced technology group that adopts modern technologies to build powerful tools and deliver an outstanding end user experience.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Our goal within WI Digital Platforms is to build a user experience that delights our customers, anticipates their needs and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. The Director sets direction across the development teams through hands-on leadership. You will be responsible for leading the development of high performance, responsive user interfaces.

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Information Technology