Director, Front End Development

Primary Responsibilities:

• Leads a team of software engineers responsible for building, maintaining, and deploying Web applications.
• Sets the technical direction for the software engineering team and defines architectural standards.
• Develops a cohesive and comprehensive technical strategy and roadmap.
• Analyzes needs and drives technical decisions in support of firm wide goals.
• Designs, develops, and modifies complex and major software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Develops and directs software system testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
• Consults on deployment of major project deliverables.
• Consults on the documentation of major technology application.
• Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or company architectural components.
• Initiates and drives project or strategy discussions with users or external groups to resolve issues.
• Sets vision, goals, and direction of team/organization.

• Plans and leads organization-wide initiatives.
• Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
• Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
• Identifies and plans for future resource needs.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Front End Development (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Web based applications in a financial services environment.

Or, alternatively, Master's degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Front End Development (or closely related occupation) designing and developing Web based applications in a financial services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise ("DE") designing and developing high performant event driven financial applications, using JAVA/J2EE, JDBC, Spring, JSP, Servlets and Web technologies (Angular, JavaScript, and Node JS).
• DE performing application design and development according to design patterns, Test Driven and Behavior Driven Development (TDD and BDD), using Karma, Selenium, Mocha, Junit and Cypress, and Agile methodologies.
• DE designing and developing large multi-threaded applications, and consuming streaming market data, using Object Oriented Programming (OOP), C#, XAML, MVVM design pattern, and REST Services.
• DE evaluating new features in technology and business processes by creating Proof of Concepts (POC) and optimizing application performance, using Performance API, Blazemeter Taurus, and SiteSpeed.io.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

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At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity-we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

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