Job Description:
The Role
As the Squad Leader for Arbitrage & Hedging Solutions Technology, you will be responsible for the technology that supports Fidelity’s growing business in the discretionary liquid alternatives market. You will partner with Portfolio Managers, Traders, Quantitative Analysts, and Investment Service teams to define the tools needed to manage portfolios with derivatives and other alternative investments.
You will ensure alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will work directly with a team of technology professionals, and enable team members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, or related field.
- 8+ years’ experience working in a technology role or related field.
- 3+ years’ experience working directly with Front Office Investment Teams – Portfolio Managers, Traders, or Quantitative Analysts.
- Experience establishing and documenting product roadmaps, backlogs and team priorities.
- Experience working with derivatives and complex financial instruments.
- Knowledge of relational databases and experience writing complex SQL queries
- A CFA or progress towards is strongly preferred.
- You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress for your teams
- You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams
- You establish and maintain unquestioning relationships as you work collaboratively across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
- You have or are committed to developing a balance of technology and non-technology skills to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers
The Team
You work in partnership with the FAMS Investment Product Area Leader, other Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and Technical Leaders aligned to your squad. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and leadership behaviors, you sustain and evolve our culture. Your work will directly support the growing Institutional business in Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS) by enhancing an existing set of processes and developing new capabilities to support the growing demand from Fidelity’s institutional clients.
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Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Top Skills
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.