Director, Software Engineering Development

Fidelity Investments•Boston, MA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Position Description: Applicants are permitted to work remotely from an at-home work site anywhere in the United States. Leads, architects, and manages projects and teams to develop Cloud-based brokerage applications within an Agile environment (Kanban and Scrum). Uses source control for feature-driven development in Bitbucket and Stash. Performs automated deployment in uDeploy. Develops regulatory reporting, using Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). Primary Responsibilities: Oversees changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management. 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 applications. 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. Mentors junior team members on functionality of application processes, troubleshooting, and coding best practices. Researches and recommends new technologies. Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives. Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development. Identifies and plans for future resource needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering Development (or closely related occupation) designing, coding, and implementing high volume brokerage regulatory reporting applications.
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering Development (or closely related occupation) designing, coding, and implementing high volume brokerage regulatory reporting applications.
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) gathering and interpreting business, functional, and technical requirements -- interacting with end-users or end-user representatives to define, interpret, and clarify the scope of complex business requirements and process issues into logical use cases (epics and stories) -- to support the building or enhancement of reporting applications according to regulatory agency standards (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)).
DE developing and maintaining regulatory applications to ensure brokerage operations adhere to SEC and FINRA requirements and guidelines, using development, code repository, utility, and build creation tools -- Eclipse, Jenkins, Qpad, QStudio, uDeploy, Winscp, and Kdiff.
DE developing KDB based applications -- designing and maintaining KDB databases, Q programming, real-time database, ticker plants, tick data, and interfaces -- using Java, Oracle, and Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS).
DE supporting the creation, implementation, and maintenance of KDB databases and associated processes, using bash and shell scripting; and scheduled jobs, using Control-M.

Responsibilities

Oversees changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
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 applications.
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.
Mentors junior team members on functionality of application processes, troubleshooting, and coding best practices.
Researches and recommends new technologies.
Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
Identifies and plans for future resource needs.