The Role
As a Director Engineering, Application Security for ECS Application Security, you’ll combine deep engineering expertise with a passion for developing high-performing teams. In our agile, cloud-first environment, you’ll set technical standards, influence strategic decisions, and deliver enterprise-scale application security solutions that keep the firm cybersafe. You’ll mentor engineers and analysts to design and implement secure, scalable systems that enable innovation while protecting our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at scale at Fidelity.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Growth
Define and drive team strategy, roadmap, and vision.
Mentor and develop engineers and analysts, fostering technical growth and professional development.
Manage workforce planning and performance goals aligned to business priorities.
Delivery & Execution
Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
Responsible for defining and owning roadmap and vision.
Accountable for the delivery of the roadmap, clearly defining and articulating the evolutionary steps/milestones to achieve the overall vision.
Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure impactful, customer-focused outcomes.
Engineering Excellence
Drive Secure-SDLC adoption, including secrets management, SAST, SCA, and DAST where appropriate.
Improve automation, test coverage, release velocity, and production health.
Own and enforce technical standards, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management
Partner with leadership across engineering, business, and operations teams to align on security priorities.
Lead data-driven decisions on trade-offs, capacity planning, and risk.
Communicate clearly, deliver updates, rationales, blockers, and outcomes to peers and senior leaders.
Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership
Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and frameworks.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and education.
Required Skills & Experience
12+ years in IT and 5+ years in direct people management & technical leadership.
Proven track record delivering scalable, cloud-native software with Secure-SDLC practices.
Strong foundation in systems architecture, SDLC, Agile, AWS, and DevSecOps.
Data-driven mindset, experience driving strategic decisions through analytics and metrics.
Excellent communicator and influencer; skilled in stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration.
Passion for coaching, able to elevate junior and senior team members alike.
Practical experience setting strategic vision and delivering on roadmaps.
Expertise in application security tools a plus e.g. secrets scanning, SAST, DAST, SCA.
Skills Required
- 12+ years in IT and 5+ years in direct people management and technical leadership.
- Proven track record delivering scalable, cloud-native software with Secure-SDLC practices.
- Strong foundation in systems architecture, SDLC, Agile, AWS, and DevSecOps.
- Data-driven mindset with experience driving strategic decisions through analytics and metrics.
- Excellent communicator and influencer; skilled in stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration.
- Passion for coaching and developing junior and senior team members.
- Practical experience setting strategic vision and delivering on roadmaps.
- Expertise in application security tools (secrets scanning, SAST, DAST, SCA).
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
