Squad Leader, Legacy Recordkeeping

Job Description:

The Role

As a Stock Plan Services (SPS) Mainframe Squad Leader, you blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering results. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, define the resource requirements, set the mission, and bring the squad together to execute on specific results and ensure respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role. This Squad Lead will also play a primary role in helping define and drive the SPS Mainframe strategy as we progress along our modernization journey.

• Defining, refining, and communicating the your team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support

• Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad

• Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results

• Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for your squad

• Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria

• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 5-10 years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or project/product management

• Bachelor’s degree preferred

• Financial services experience preferred 

• Agile experience preferred

• Experience with platform modernization preferred

• You take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, you translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered

• Experience defining a large scale strategy and helping lead teams through change

• You have a continuous improvement approach

• You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform the approach and remove impediments to making progress

• You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams

• You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching

The Team

Stock Plan Services (SPS) provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.

You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.

Certifications:

Category:Product Management

Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).