Director, Engineering - PRK Platform
Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
The Role
The Workplace Investing (WI) Platform technology group within Fidelity Investments is responsible for the development and maintenance of technology solutions supporting Fidelity's Defined Contribution (DC) business. The DC plan administration record keeping services platform serves plan sponsors in the configuration of their DC plans and operates in a mixed-technology environment (Java, Spring, Angular, Oracle) across multiple tiers (web server, app server, DB).
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- 10 plus Years of Technology Experience
- Experience with developing or managing a development team with Angular, Java, Database Skills.
- Demonstrated ability leading, mentoring, and developing people and robust teams.
- 2 plus years of experience working in an agile delivery environment.
- Deep technical and functional knowledge in financial domain.
- Proven approach to decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs.
- Proven expertise with multi-functional collaboration to achieve the best results.
- Experience with resource planning and allocation within and across organizations.
- Strong leadership skills: you must be passionate about engineering excellence, empowerment of individuals/team, innovation, collaboration and must be eager to learn and teach every day.
- Creating and maintaining a culture based on Fidelity and Agile leadership principles.
- Supporting the alignment of work with tribe objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs). In addition, ensuring that Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) work is factored into the Delivery Engineering’s roadmap accordingly.
- Ensuring how the work performed by technical delivery team members is aligned with architectural best practices.
- Continuously developing and maintaining outstanding Delivery Engineering expertise and talent to support the squads and tribes.
- Identifying and fulfilling training and hiring needs to help the squads and tribes deliver their goals.
- Collaborating with other Delivery Engineering leads to ensuring a common vision and initiative-taking communication, both horizontally and vertically.
- Implementing existing engineering practices and setting up new ones as and when needed.
- Readily available for escalations and prioritizations.
The Team
This group is looking for a Director Engineering Lead at its Smithfield, Rhode Island site to be part of its dynamic, globally distributed team of IT professionals responsible for the development and maintenance of Fidelity's DC plan administration record keeping services platform.
As a DC plan administration recordkeeping Engineering Lead, you blend deep technology and business expertise with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. All with a focus on delivering value to our customers. Within an agile structure, we collaborate with other leaders to shape the standards for our Delivery Engineering, influence our strategic decisions, and build solutions that surpass customers’ expectations. Responsible for directly managing a team of Delivery Engineering members who primarily work within autonomous squads across tribes. We are dedicated to helping associates grow and develop their skills and knowledge. Likewise, we are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge. We want you to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others.
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
- 10+ years of technology experience
- Experience developing or managing teams using Angular, Java, and database technologies
- 2+ years working in an agile delivery environment
- Deep technical and functional knowledge in the financial domain
- Proven decision-making and ability to make strategic trade-offs
- Experience with multi-functional collaboration and resource planning/allocation
- Strong leadership skills; mentoring, developing teams, and fostering engineering excellence
- Ability to align team work with architectural best practices and tribe KPIs
- Experience identifying and fulfilling training and hiring needs
- Readily available for escalations and prioritizations
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.
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