Job Description:

Job Description:

Location: Westlake, TX

Hybrid schedule

Are you interested in serving the needs of millions of customers in tax efficient savings, protection and guaranteed income in retirement? Fidelity Investments Life Insurance (FILI) Technology team in Personal Investing is seeking a talented leader to join us in modernizing and building innovative and cloud-native experiences, capabilities and platforms in support of this mission!  

The Team:

As a Director of Software Engineering (Chapter Leader), you will lead the technical team to develop user experiences and the underlying platforms to support our customer experience. You will provide the technology know-how, leadership and influencing skills to drive overall technology strategy, digital transformation, thought leadership and talent development across the squads. You will provide technical guidance on lead initiatives that supply ideas to improve our products as well as develop your skills, understand new technologies and industry trends, and continue to learn while maintaining a strong focus on providing coaching, mentorship and driving talent development across our engineering teams.  

The Expertise You Have: 12+ years leading, mentoring, and developing people and robust teams. 10+ years leading building of sophisticated digital technology solutions. 8+ years working in an agile delivery environment with software engineers Aspiration and skill to drive technology strategy for the platform Authenticity and commitment to coach engineers across various levels Craft a process for skills progression, influencing careers, and build leadership skills Proven expertise with cross-functional collaboration to achieve the best results. Experience with resource planning and allocation across teams Strong leadership skills: you must be passionate about engineering excellence, standards and best practices, empowerment of individuals/team, innovation, collaboration and must be someone who’s eager to learn and instruct every day.   The Skills You Bring: Technology leadership, critical thinking, and influencing skills across the organizational structures Collaborate on the cloud and data strategy for the platform Actively crafting and maintaining the culture within the team based on Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors Continuously developing & maintaining outstanding team expertise and talent in order to support the squads & groups with the right level of knowledge and skills Supervising the performance of team members, providing feedback and mentoring. Sharing knowledge and expertise within and outside of the team – ensuring the “how” of the work performed by the teams is aligned with established road maps and guardrails. Identifying talent and training needs across the teams Enforcing existing engineering practices and setting new ones as and when needed   The Value You Deliver Bring passion to your work to encourage and empower your team. Embody Fidelity’s leadership principles and multiplier behaviors. Mentor teams to improve their performance, knowledge, and expertise. Commit to developing leadership at all levels. Help your peers & team get better by raising standards within and around while maintaining a strong focus on building future leaders. Enhance partnerships across the organization to ensure alignment towards enterprise standards, tools and platforms Help build culture of learning, innovation, empowerment, and transparency. Bring a data-driven & collaborative approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs.   How Your Work Impacts the Organization

We believe that diversity in background and experience will cultivate an inclusive and engaging work environment for our employees. This ultimately enables us to deliver a better product for our customers. Being technically competent is only telling half the story. We believe that delivering the best possible customer experience requires an artful blend of human ingenuity and technology. While we value smart technologists, we are very passionate about our culture that promotes autonomy and leadership at all levels. People who are great cultural fits demonstrate curiosity to learn, step up and take ownership, show accountability and thrive by sharing knowledge.

 

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

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