Job Description:
The Role
As Employee Compliance Squad Leader, you blend product and leadership expertise with a passion for delivering results. You are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute on specific product features. You ensure your applications are available, stable, performant, and supported when required. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.
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- Ensure alignment on the "what" and "when" work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog.
- Define, refine and communicate the squads' mission and roadmap to empower and establish team and partner support and alignment.
- Anticipate, discover, and prioritize client / partner needs
- Act with a data-focused approach to understand customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, and prioritize to improve value delivered.
- Grasp sophisticated product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria.
- Establish and maintain positive relationships as you work cross-functionally across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
- Define, evaluate, and communicate results against acceptance criteria while removing impediments
- Collaborate and coordinate with Chapter Leaders and Scrum Master to build squad capacity and capability and enable squad member growth, development, and learning
- Make informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
- Supervise and control related cost and maintenance
- Emphasize continuous improvement
The Skills You Bring & Expertise You Bring
- Education - BS or MS in technology related field (Engineering, Computer Science etc.)
- 5+ years of experience in leading technology teams or technology initiatives.
- Prior experience in Ethics Compliance / Registration & Licensing Compliance technology is required.
- A learning and growth demeanor with a passion for delivering quantifiable value to our customers and Fidelity.
- Experience understanding customer & business needs and leading distributed cross-functional software development teams.
- Skilled at using data and insights, letting facts lead the way to develop effective strategic product roadmaps.
- Experience with Scrum/Agile development is preferred.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining dynamic products and solutions.
- Ability to focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.
- Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams.
- Dedication to understanding and learning about customer needs and requirements.
- Jira and Jira Align experience is preferred.
The Team
Compliance Technology (CT) provides strategic technology support to Fidelity Legal, Risk & Compliance teams. Compliance technology is currently going through a transformation to simplify and modernize technology solutions while continuing to be a strategic advisor to the business. This role in LRC Technology will provide technology support for Employee Compliance program. The role can be based in one of the approved US based locations (preferably Westlake, TX) with frequent travels to other Fidelity locations. Be a part of this dynamic team!
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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.
Join Us
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.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.