Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

The Workplace Investing Quality Engineering (QE) leadership team is seeking a multifaceted, forward thinking organizational leader who is passionate about the customer and committed to quality. Strategic mentality coupled with technical competence of Quality practices drives our ideal candidate toward execution and delivery, while they lead a distributed team of Quality Engineers in the Workplace Stock Plan Services (SPS) domain.

As a Director of Software Quality Engineering, you blend a deep commitment to optimizing delivery through agile and QE practices with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are committed to improving the value delivered to our customers. You collaborate with other leaders to establish standards for your chapter, influence strategic decision-making, and build solutions in your area of expertise. You manage a team of chapter members who primarily work within autonomous squads across product areas but report directly to you. You are dedicated to helping associates grow and develop in their knowledge area and ensure alignment on the "how" of the work they perform. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Experience and Skills that are Key to this Role:

• Seasoned technical global people leader focused on leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency
• Senior level quality leadership experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing agile development teams
• A passion for Quality Engineering practices and proven record of implementing such practices
• Deep technical expertise with confirmed ability to drive technical solutions and automation frameworks/pipelines such as Selenium, Playwright, Rest Assured, Karate, etc.
• Investment as an Agile change agent to continuously improve and encourage an agile way of working
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain strong multi-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization
• Proven track record as an outspoken peer leader with peer coaching and strong communications and presentation skills working on collaborative teams to deliver high quality data solutions.
• Uses a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses
• Practical experience with quality engineering fundamentals such as test automation, data virtualization, and CI/CD integration
• Authentic investment in implementing and sustaining quality gates with an audit and governance approach
• An intellectual curiosity and passion to learn new skills and modeling a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching
• Experience resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization

The Expertise and Skills You Bring:

• 10+ years of technical leadership: building an environment and culture to support software quality engineering practices of high quality
• Strong Team builder, collaborator, and partner
• BS or MS degree in a technical field such as computer science/engineering or related field
• Software testing certifications preferred (ISTQB, CSTE, CAST, ICP-ATA, etc.)

The WI Technology teams design, develop, implement, and support a suite of products and services used across Workplace Investing and beyond. Our goal is to create an outstanding user experience that delights our Workplace Investing associates, anticipates their needs, and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. Our work embodies a globally distributed, fast paced, dynamic Quality Engineering organization that is using innovative technologies to create the next generation of high-quality best in class experiences. The successful candidate will collaborate with other Chapter Leaders, people and product leaders aligned to Workplace Investing across the globe.

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.