Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
The Role
As the Director, Data Platform DevOps Engineering, you blend deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, and software delivery with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing engineering talent. You are committed to building highly reliable, secure, and scalable technology platforms that accelerate business outcomes and improve the developer experience.
In an agile structure, you will collaborate with Product Area Leaders, Architects, Engineering Leaders, and Engineering teams to establish DevOps and platform engineering standards, define strategic direction, and drive our Data Platform’s adoption of modern engineering practices. You are dedicated to helping others grow their technical and leadership capabilities while ensuring alignment on engineering excellence, automation, reliability, and operational effectiveness.
In addition, you:
Bring passion to your work to inspire and motivate teams
Embody the firm's Leadership Principles and engineering culture
Foster a culture of automation, innovation, and continuous improvement
Champion reliability, security, and operational excellence
Promote collaboration and shared ownership across engineering organizations
Enjoy what you do!
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
10+ years of experience delivering and operating large-scale enterprise technology platforms with increasing leadership responsibility
Proven experience leading DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Cloud Infrastructure teams
Deep expertise in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure
Experience leading Kubernetes, containerization, and modern application platform initiatives
Experience driving Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM), platform modernization, and operational resiliency programs
Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management practices
Experience implementing security best practices across infrastructure and software delivery pipelines
Strong stakeholder management and organizational navigation skills
Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy across multiple business and technology organizations
Critical thinking skills and experience operating in Agile delivery environments
Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and execution capabilities
Financial Services experience preferred
The Value You Deliver
Define and execute the DevOps and platform engineering roadmap in partnership with engineering and business leaders
Establish standards, best practices, and governance for CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, cloud operations, and platform reliability
Drive automation initiatives that improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and deployment quality
Lead cloud infrastructure, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence programs across the organization
Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and Engineering leaders to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available technology platforms
Remove organizational and technical impediments that impact team effectiveness and delivery
Champion a culture of continuous improvement through metrics, automation, engineering excellence, and operational insights
Ensure systems meet reliability, security, compliance, performance, and scalability objectives
Communicate strategy, priorities, progress, and outcomes effectively to executive stakeholders and technology leadership
Foster innovation and adoption of emerging DevOps, cloud, and platform engineering practices to support the organization's long-term technology vision
Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on accountability, collaboration, and customer-centric outcomes
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience delivering and operating large-scale enterprise technology platforms with increasing leadership responsibility
- Experience leading DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure teams
- Deep expertise in CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure
- Experience leading Kubernetes, containerization, and modern application platform initiatives
- Experience driving Technology Lifecycle Management, platform modernization, and operational resiliency programs
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management practices
- Experience implementing security best practices across infrastructure and software delivery pipelines
- Strong stakeholder management and organizational navigation skills
- Ability to influence engineering strategy across multiple business and technology organizations
- Critical thinking and experience operating in Agile delivery environments
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and execution capabilities
- Financial Services experience
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
Fidelity Investments Insights
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
