Director - Chapter Leader - Core Brokerage Technology Job in Fidelity Investments

Job Description:

The Chapter Lead for the Core Brokerage Technology team will be responsible for managing the development squads and will be responsible for providing oversight and guidance to the teams on technology and domain.

This technology group provides superior development and maintenance support to the overall Fidelity Institutional organization, in vital core subsystems that provide regulatory books and records information as well as trusted customer information, distributed throughout the organization.

The Value You Deliver

• Build a high-performance cohesive team.
• Provide thought, domain & technical leadership for the key initiatives in FI/FBT.
• Providing leadership for junior and senior engineers alike, by understanding how to leverage and enhance their current skills
• Driving technical vision and initiative with US partners, architects and prototyping, getting buy-in from cross-geography teams
• Developing, designing and building architecture solutions on a platform dedicated to high scale processing of large amounts of data.
• Setting, communicating and reinforcing the product vision and roadmap.
• Assessing and researching current implementations of the platform and determining the course of action required to elevate the platform to meet customer needs.
• Taking the business requirements coupled with existing architecture to set a technical vision for features and major components and clearly articulating the evolutionary steps to achieve it
• Collaborating with peers and management on process improvement ideas, policy and procedure enhancements, and opportunities to improve our customer's service experience.

The Skills that are Key to this role

• Deep knowledge of the Brokerage domain. This is an absolute must have.
• Knowledge of technologies like Java J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot & Cloud and Rest APIs
• Prior experience of working in highly transactional, fault tolerant and data driven systems.
• Ability to lead teams working on large technology initiatives should be able to lead a team of 20+ developers working across different squads.
• Ability to identify areas of risk or potential problems and take action to mitigate them and work with less experienced staff to mitigate more complex issues.
• Collaboration across different chapters and chapter areas to bring out standard best practices & processes.
• Ability to apply different communication and leadership styles for different teams and geographies.
• Ability to lead through influence and know what data is needed to drive effective decisions
• Ability to assess and plan project, and stakeholders needs, and manage deadlines, risks.
• Ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions
• Ability to build communication and rapport with partners, stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt in a changing environment and be effective in many different business settings.
• Ability to take initiative, define vision for betterment of products, and execute at high level of quality

The skills that are good to have for this role

• Ability to plan and work with geographically spread out teams
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Curiosity to constantly relearn/explore new processes/technologies

How your work impacts the organization

Fidelity Brokerage Technology (FBT) enables business partners to win in their respective marketplaces by designing, building and maintaining the technology platforms and products of Fidelity Institutional, Personal Investing and Workplace Investing. FBT is part of the Fund and Brokerage Operations & Technology (FBOT) organization and has over 2,700associates located in Boston, Covington, Denver, Merrimack, New York, New Jersey, Smithfield, Raleigh-Durham, Westlake, as well as India and Ireland. The FBT India Team is distributed across Bangalore and Chennai. The current position is for a key initiative that is being driven across FBT.

The Expertise were looking for

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar subject.
• 12+ years of experience in information technology.
• Financial services experience, preferably in Brokerage Domain
• Relevant Certifications in Brokerage and/or Asset Management is preferred

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