Director, Blockchain Engineering - Digital Assets

Fidelity; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity is looking for a seasoned Director of Blockchain Engineering to lead the FDAM India teams. You will shape strategy, drive delivery, and partner with global technology and business units to build scalable, high-performance financial asset platforms.

You will champion modern engineering practices, cloud-native design, and secure, compliant solutions while mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional partners across the organization.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in engineering management for fintech or asset management platforms.
• Extensive Java/J2EE development background with distributed systems design.
• Experience with blockchain, DeFi concepts, and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the FDAM engineering teams in India, aligning with global partners.
• Drive multi-year product roadmap and technical governance across platforms.
• Promote CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps practices across teams.
• Collaborate with business users and architecture to deliver scalable solutions.
• Inspire innovation and ensure high performance and reliability of systems.

Skills

Java/J2EE

PL/SQL

AWS Cloud

DeFi protocol

Blockchain technology

Distributed systems

CI/CD

DevOps mindset

Agile teams

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS Cloud

Job description

Job title: Director, Blockchain Engineering - Digital Assets

The Purpose of Your Role

Asset Management Technology is seeking a highly motivated individual to lead the Fidelity Digital Asset Management (FDAM) engineering teams in India. This individual will partner very closely with various business and the global technology teams, in addition to the broader Asset management technology teams to deliver a best in class product supporting the FDAM business

The Expertise We are Looking For

• Be Collaborative: Work in partnership with the business users, AM Architecture and Engineering teams to design and build end-to-end solutions for the FHA technology teams
• Be Strategic: Partner with other key team members (and other AM teams) to provide strategic direction to execute the multi-year product roadmap
• Influence Others : In partnership with the global Engineering Managers, help advance and support product, delivery and technical practices including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automated testing within your team and across the organization
• Lead the team: As a Engineering Manager, help manage the priorities and provide technical expertise, direction and engineering excellence for the team. Act as a single point of accountability for the Engineering practices and ensure appropriate governance is in place
• Inspire Others: Demonstrate a deep passion for software engineering, asset management domain in specific, asset management domain in general and create an ability to tap into the expertise of the engineering team. Passion to drive innovation at work which contributes to business value through scale and efficiency, business growth and/or investment performance

12+ years of experience

The Skills That Are Key to This Role

• Extensive experience designing and developing enterprise grade distributed application using Java/J2EE technologies. Knowhow of PL/SQL will be handy, experience with AWS Cloud will be an advantage
• Experience of working on DeFi protocol, Digital Asset and blockchain technology is desirable
• Ability to triage and manage business impact due production issue
• Understands and applies fundamental design principles behind a scalable, low latency, high throughput distributed application
• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns and their application
• Champions' best practices for various aspects of engineering excellence and a promotes DevOps mindset
• Relevant experience with Cloud computing and emerging technologies
• You should have relevant experience working with Agile teams
• You should have the effective influencing and communication skills to lead a high performing technology team. Comfortable working with cross-functional team members and promotes the notion of full stack engineers
• You should have demonstrated ability to lead from front, motivate and empower your team to deliver the best
• You should possess prior experience collaborating with global technology and business partners

The Value You Deliver

Bringing new solutions to our users on a regular cadence, retiring obsolete solutions and maintaining a cutting edge tech stack

Identifying opportunities to bring emerging technologies/solutions to deliver innovative solutions to meet their business objectives.

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Asset Management Technology is an integral partner for Asset Management and delivers innovative, scalable, industry-leading investment tools that enable Asset Management to achieve competitive advantage globally. Your work in this truly dynamic team will provide a major contribution to Asset Management's investment performance and scale and efficiency objectives.

Certifications

Category: Information Technology