Director, Engineering Manager- Digital Asset Management- Blockchain, DeFi

Job Description:

Director, Engineering Manager - FDAM - Asset Management Technology

The Role

An ideal candidate for this role will bring deep expertise in blockchain technologies to drive design, development and deployment of decentralized systems for financial asset management. The candidate will combine strong leadership and architecture skills with hands-on experience in DeFi protocols, smart contracts, and scalable distributed systems with a passion for enabling business outcomes and developing leaders and associates. The Engineering Manager -will lead a cross-functional team of full stack engineers, collaborate with product managers, architects and business stakeholders for Fidelity Digital Asset Management within Asset management Technology. In this role the individual will play a key role in defining the product and technology roadmap aligned to the business strategy. The candidate will be responsible for fostering a vibrant environment of growth, development, and continuous improvement for the software engineering practices. They will also be responsible for actively seeking feedback and maintaining strong partnership with leadership across business, product and technology. The candidate will be responsible for influencing decisions to improve delivery capabilities and realize business outcomes. The value you deliver will include:

• Contributing to the delivery of functional capabilities to meet the business goals of offering digital asset based products to our customers
• Establishing and promoting engineering excellence through compliance to coding standards, security protocols and quality practices
• Contributing to the definition of the blockchain architecture and system design aligned with business goals and IT blueprint
• Championing the culture of innovation and research to remain at the forefront of blockchain technology and thought leadership

• 12-14 years of software engineering experience; at least 3 years in blockchain development
• Proficiency in smart contract development (Solidity, Rust) and auditing, deep understanding of blockchain consensus mechanism, cryptography, tokenomics and transaction lifecycle
• Design and implement scalable blockchain based system for tokenization, smart wallets and integration with DeFi protocols for primarily public blockchains like Ethereum, Solana and private DLTs
• Lead the development of smart contracts, interoperability between blockchain components and integration with traditional financial systems
• Knowledge of cloud-native architecture (AWS) and containerization (Docker, EKS)
• Effectively manage delivery timelines for product roadmap along with stakeholder communication
• Lead a team of blockchain engineers, smart contract developers and full stack engineers
• Promotes and demonstrates a learning mindset by staying abreast of emerging trends in blockchain technology
• Committed and inspirational leader capable of developing associates & leaders to achieve their fullest potential within their job family and career goals
• Strong in communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with which you influence decisions and engagement across all levels of the organization.
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams, with peers and leadership teams to align with technology objectives, KPI's and standards to accelerate business delivery.
• Ability to proactively share your knowledge, expertise and perspectives and nurture a learning culture across your team and the broader organization
• Ability to fulfil HR duties such as developing performance plans, setting goals, and providing constructive feedback
• Work closely with globally distributed product, engineering and business teams across regions which may include working across time zones and travel for business workshops, planning sessions and meetings