Job Description:
Director - Software Engineering (Workplace Platform QE)
The Purpose of Your Role
As a Defined Contribution/Workplace Platform Quality Engineering Chapter Leader, you blend deep knowledge of quality engineering practices and strong engineering skills with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. In an agile structure you will collaborate with other leaders to establish the standards for your chapter, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions in your expertise. You will directly manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous squads across product areas yet report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping them grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the "how" of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.
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The Experience and Skills that are Key to this Role
- Seasoned technical people leader focused on leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency
- Deep technical expertise with confirmed ability to drive technical solutions and automation frameworks/pipelines such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, Karate, etc.
- Investment as an Agile change agent to continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong multi-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
- Proven track record as an outspoken peer leader with peer coaching and strong communications and presentation skills working on collaborative teams to deliver high quality data solutions.
- Uses a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses
- Practical experience with quality engineering fundamentals such as test automation, data virtualization, and CI/CD integration
- Authentic investment in implementing and sustaining quality gates with an audit and governance approach
- An intellectual curiosity and passion to learn new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
- Experience resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
- Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization
- Proactively partner with Chapter Area, Product Area, Center of Excellence, and Squad Leaders to:
- influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area of expertise
- measure performance through established objectives and critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
- align associates across teams and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and content to develop skills
- set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps
- remove impediments to delivering value
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 7+ years of Technical Excellence: Participate in building the culture of outstanding software engineering practices for the modern Cloud platforms
- Strong Team builder, collaborator, and partner
- BS or MS degree in a technical field such as computer science/engineering or related field
- Software testing certifications preferred (ISTQB, CSTE, CAST, ICP-ATA, etc.)
The Team
You will be part of a team that works in partnership with Squad Leaders and other Chapter Leaders aligned to the Workplace Platforms product area. The teams you will be engaged with are highly engaged and passionate about collaborating and solving problems. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you will evolve and sustain our innovative, agile culture
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Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
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).
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.