Director, Full Stack Engineering

Fidelity Investments Inc.; North Carolina; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments seeks a Director of Full Stack Engineering to lead the design and development of enterprise digital platforms, APIs, and distributed systems. You will guide architecture roadmaps and drive DevOps practices across AWS/Azure while mentoring teams.

The role emphasizes scalable Java/J2EE/Spring-based solutions, REST services, and robust testing with JUnit/Mockito. Collaboration with stakeholders will define next-generation architectures and platform adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 6 years as Director, Full Stack Engineering in customer verification, fraud prevention, and data security.
• Or Master’s degree with 4 years in a similar director-level role handling multi-tier distributed software applications.

Responsibilities

• Translates business vision and strategy into architectural recommendations.
• Leads teams and mentors engineers to align with standards.
• Influences technology roadmaps and implements enterprise components.
• Architects and deploys solutions in AWS and Azure.
• Applies expertise in streaming products, microservices, middleware, stream processing, and MDM.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver complex cloud-based systems.
• Researches and recommends new technologies to support growth.
• Guides team performance and career development.
• Determines strategic technical approaches and advises senior leadership.
• Partners with stakeholders to define next-generation ecosystems and drive platform adoption.
• Evaluates emerging technologies to enhance scalability and customer experience.

Skills

Java

J2EE

RESTful APIs

Spring Boot

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

Swagger

Apigee API Gateway

JUnit

Mockito

OpenAPI

LWC Drop-wizard

Test-Driven Development

Behavior Driven Development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field

Tools

Swagger

Apigee API Gateway

LWC Drop-wizard

JUnit

Mockito

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Job Description:

Position Description:

Leads the design and development of digital platforms that support large-scale enterprise digital presence and drives technology and architecture roadmaps. Oversees the creation of web applications, Application Programming Interface (API) services, and distributed systems using modern frameworks and cloud technologies (JSP, HTML, CSS/SASS, jQuery, Angular, and NodeJS). Guides teams in implementing automation pipelines, continuous integration and delivery practices, robust testing strategies, and DevOps processes using Maven, Jenkins, Stash, Ansible, and Docker. Designs and architects solutions for high-scale processing of large data sets using Java, J2EE, Spring MVC, Spring Core, and JavaScript. Develops and manages API services, including versioning, isolation, and microservices, leveraging Swagger framework. Ensures robust testing and validation using Junit, Mockito, and Spring Test frameworks. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by developing complex, multi-faceted software applications.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Translates business vision and strategy into architectural recommendations and technology solutions.

• Leads teams and mentors engineers to ensure alignment with engineering standards and best practices.

• Influences technology roadmaps and drives implementation of enterprise-wide architectural components.

• Architects and deploys solutions in public cloud environments – Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.

• Applies expertise in open-source streaming products, microservices, message-oriented middleware, stream processing, and master data management.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver complex software systems and cloud-based solutions.

• Researches and recommends new technologies to support strategic objectives and organizational growth.

• Provides guidance and coaching to team members for performance and career development.

• Determines technical approaches at a strategic level and advises senior leadership on technology direction.

• Partners with business and technology stakeholders to define next-generation ecosystems and drive adoption of platform-based architectures.

• Evaluates emerging technologies to enhance scalability, performance, and customer experience.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) building multi-tier distributed software applications within customer verification, fraud prevention, and data security environments.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Full Stack Engineering (or closely related occupation) building multi-tier distributed software applications within customer verification, fraud prevention, and data security environments.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

• Demonstrated Expertise developing highly available, scalable, fault tolerant, performance efficient, resilient and secure application solutions using Java, J2EE, and JAX RS Jersey RESTful web services; and deploying enterprise applications on AWS.

• Demonstrated Expertise developing and implementing digital platform-based REST services, using LWC Drop-wizard framework, Test-Driven and Behavior Driven Development (TDD and BDD) methodologies, Cucumber and REST-assured frameworks, and Apigee API Gateway.

• Demonstrated Expertise architecting and delivering enterprise financial services applications in distributed environments using Micro-service architecture, J2EE, and Spring Boot; and developing Web services (producers and consumers) using SOAP/REST and Open API technology stack.

• Demonstrated Expertise implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to optimize deployment cycle times for software artifacts to rapidly deploy changes using Jenkins, Docker UDeploy, Blue/Green deployment model, and feature toggles; and providing rollback strategies on previous version of artifact for each deployment in the production environment.

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Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.