Squad Leader (Strategic Advisors Technology)

Job Description:

The Team

Strategic Advisers is a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC that provides investment management services to clients through Fidelity's retail and institutional distribution channels. For more than 30 years, Strategic Advisers has specialized in the design, construction and management of asset allocation solutions, as well as the methodologies for many of Fidelity's investment planning tools, to help investors reach their financial goals. With over $1 trillion in assets under management, the Strategic Advisers team of investment professionals constructs and manages portfolios for over three million customer accounts. We (Strategic Advisors Technology) build and maintain the platforms that drive this growing business!

The Role

Strategic Advisors Technology is seeking a Squad Leader (Director) to join our team. As a Squad Lead, you set overall purpose and vision for the work of a squad, serving as the end-to-end gatekeeper of the mission, strategy, product life cycle and value creation. Collaborating closely with Fidelity's Strategic Advisors portfolio engineers, investment architects and operations team to understand their vision and challenges. From there, you'll work with your squad of analysts and engineers to deliver innovative, efficient, architecturally aligned, and timely solutions that benefit our clients and Fidelity. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about investment management, problem solving, building great things, and continuously improving.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in business/systems analysis, product owner, product management, and/or project management
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology or finance related area
• Excellent communication, organization and planning, and presentation skills for your team.
• Financial services industry knowledge and experience vital, investment management and/or wealth management domain knowledge a plus
• Experience working on distributed and multi-time zone teams.
• Proven expertise designing, developing, and maintaining large, complex, and dynamic products and solutions
• Agile, Jira, and Jira Align experience, preferably from a planning perspective
• Translate strategic objectives into consumable, actionable plans, that your squad or product area can build from
• Derive initiatives and end-to-end workflows that can be broken down into epics & stories with well-defined business value and designs
• Track record of building highly engaged, industrious teams with a strong focus on execution and the ability to identify, communicate, and remove impediments
• Effective at running fusions for estimating and planning large efforts that articulate the project demands, assumptions, schedule, and risks, and help advise Product Area roadmap and capacity needs
• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues on solutions, ways of working and tools without formal authority, many times outside of our direct team and in matrixed situations
• Innovative, intellectually curious, and a great teammate who can continuously improve our culture, process, and tools, and promote an agile way of working

• Develop solutions and capabilities to improve the Account Management product/platform vision, meeting customer requirements.
• Defining, refining, and communicating the roadmap, mission, and plans for assigned Squads, products, and initiatives
• You are a constant voice of the platform's stakeholders, allowing you team to focus on how to build the best product
• Collaborating and coordinating with Chapter Leaders, Architects, Scrum Masters, and Squad members to build Squad capacity and capability to achieve our goals