Director, Software Engineering Development

Fidelity Investments

$185K — $194K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in Software Engineering Development as a Director or equivalent role.
  • Expertise in developing regulatory reporting applications for brokerage firms.
  • Strong experience with KDB databases and associated technology stacks.
  • Proven skills in gathering complex business requirements and translating them into technical specifications.

Responsibilities

  • Leads project teams in developing Cloud-based brokerage applications.
  • Manages changes in project development policies and technical standards.
  • Consults on deployment of major technology initiatives and deliverables.
  • Advises senior management on projects and technical strategies.
  • Mentors junior team members and provides technical guidance.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility from anywhere in the U.S.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams in high-level architecture design.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and methodologies.
  • Leadership and mentoring opportunities for personal and team development.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

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.


Education and Experience:

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.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

  • 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.


Salary: $185,000.00 - $194,000.00/year.

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