Director, Software Engineering

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Galway, IRL
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Fintech
The Role
Lead and develop a team of approximately nine software engineers while providing technical and execution leadership across portfolio construction platforms. Drive strategic investment technology initiatives, cloud-native software delivery, AI-assisted engineering adoption, developer productivity, and engineering quality. Partner with product, architecture, and investment technology leaders to deliver scalable solutions supporting multi-asset investing, portfolio construction, analytics, and risk management.
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The Role

We’re hiring a strategic and technically strong engineering leader to lead Portfolio Construction technology platforms within Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS). This role includes direct people management responsibility for approximately 9 software engineers while providing technical and execution leadership across multiple engineering delivery teams.


This role requires a leader with proven experience building and developing high-performing engineering teams combined with deep modern software engineering expertise. Just as importantly, the ideal candidate must have hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and similar technologies in real engineering environments.


This is a core requirement for the role — the successful candidate will be expected to lead adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, coach engineers on modern AI development workflows, and accelerate developer productivity across the organization.


You will partner closely with product, architecture, and investment technology leaders to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-impact solutions supporting multi-asset investing and portfolio construction capabilities.


This is an ideal opportunity for a leader who is passionate about engineering excellence, talent development, AI-driven software engineering transformation, and building modern investment technology platforms.

 

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

 

  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, including direct management of approximately 8–10 software engineers.
  • Deep technical expertise across modern engineering stacks, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise-scale software delivery.
  • Hands-on experience using and driving adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and similar technologies.
  • Ability to influence technical direction, partner effectively with product leadership, and translate strategy into scalable business solutions.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and coaching skills with a passion for engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The Value You Deliver 


  • Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers while fostering a strong culture of accountability and innovation.
  • Drive delivery of strategic technology initiatives supporting portfolio construction and multi-asset investment capabilities.
  • Accelerate engineering productivity and quality through adoption of AI-enabled software development practices and tools.
  • Partner closely with product and technology leaders to align engineering execution with business priorities and client outcomes.
  • Deliver scalable, resilient, and high-quality technology solutions using modern engineering practices and cloud-native architectures.

The Team


Within Fidelity Asset Management Solutions (FAMS), our technology organization builds and supports the platforms that power portfolio construction, asset allocation, analytics, and risk management across a broad range of multi-asset investment solutions.


Our engineers develop scalable, cloud-native applications and services supporting investment professionals across the full investment lifecycle. Teams leverage modern technologies including Java, Angular, Kafka, Oracle, and cloud-native architectures to deliver high-impact investment technology solutions.


FAMS is also making a significant strategic investment in AI-enabled engineering practices and developer productivity transformation. We are actively adopting tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, and other emerging AI technologies to modernize software development, improve quality, and accelerate delivery across engineering teams.


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Skills Required

  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, including direct management of approximately 8–10 software engineers.
  • Deep technical expertise across modern engineering stacks, cloud-native platforms, and enterprise-scale software delivery.
  • Hands-on experience using and driving adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar technologies.
  • Ability to influence technical direction, partner effectively with product leadership, and translate strategy into scalable business solutions.
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and coaching skills with a passion for engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
58,848 Employees
Year Founded: 1946

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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