Director, Software Engineering

Job Description:

Position Description:

Establishes software engineering standards, influences strategic decisions, and builds solutions according to Agile methodologies. Reduces technical debts and modernizes applications. Improves stability and resiliency of software applications and batch processes. Improves software engineering standards and quality to drive innovation within the team. Identifies and acquires talent needs and resource planning across the organization. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.
• Participates in high-level, cross- functional architecture design teams.
• Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology application.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.
• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
• Advises senior management on technical strategy.
• Researches and recommends new technologies.
• Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) coordinating the implementation of comprehensive end-to-end test strategy and automation frameworks for large-scale DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) software development projects and platform modernization initiatives, using Selenium, Cypress, Rest Assured, Java, or Python.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) coordinating the implementation of comprehensive end-to-end test strategy and automation frameworks for large-scale DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) software development projects and platform modernization initiatives, using Selenium, Cypress, Rest Assured, Java, or Python.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) developing and implementing comprehensive test strategies and automation frameworks at enterprise scale for functional, regression, performance, and security testing using Selenium, Cypress, ReadyAPI, Burp Suite, or JMeter.
• DE developing, architecting, and coordinating responsive applications and test automation strategies for native mobile (IOS or Android) and web applications on AWS or Azure cloud environments, using Groovy, JavaScript, Appium, Mobile device farms (Perfecto, Seetest) and Web security technologies (Burp suite, OAuth, and SAML).
• DE implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to achieve highly efficient, performant, and agile software deployment using automated DevOps processes -- Maven, Jenkins, JFrog Antifactory, Docker, GitHub, or Sonar.
• DE implementing AI-driven testing solutions to enable intelligent test automation using AI/ML models for: test automation, synthetic test data creation, optimizing test execution suites to improve test coverage, and testing efficiency and test cycle times while protecting sensitive data and adhering to compliance requirements.

Salary:  $173,425.00 - $216,174.00/year.

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Category:Information Technology

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.