Director, Software Engineering

Soteria Reinsurance Ltd.; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead the design, development, and maintenance of mainframe, batch, and cloud-native applications in AWS and Azure, using Java and Spring Boot. You will set the technical direction, oversee multiple teams, and drive standardization across the firm.

You will mentor engineers, steer large-scale initiatives, and collaborate with senior management to advance the technology strategy and execution across business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering/IT with 6 years as Director, Software Engineering in financial services.
• Or Master degree with 4 years of Director-level experience in similar scope.

Responsibilities

• Leads solution and business architecture for Cloud capabilities across multiple business verticals, domain areas, and product areas.
• Translates business vision to architectural strategy at the functional level.
• Participates in high-level cross-functional architecture design teams.
• Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.

Skills

Endevor

JCL

COBOL

DB2

CICS

Control-M

STROBE

SYSVIEW

Spring Batch

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

Microservices

JSR-352

Education

Bachelor degree in CS/Engineering/IT with 6 years Director experience in financial services

Master degree with 4 years Director experience in similar scope

Job description

## Director, Software EngineeringApplylocations: Westlake, TXtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: August 25, 2026 (30+ days left to apply)job requisition id: 2132406## ## Job Description:**Position Description**:**Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.**Manages and oversees all design, development, and maintenance of mainframe and distributed applications, Cloud native applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure, and high-volume transactional systems, using Java and Spring Boot frameworks. Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects and drives standardization and best practices across the firm. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit and participates in the research and recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions.**Primary Responsibilities:*** Leads solution and business architecture for Cloud capabilities across multiple business verticals, domain areas, and product areas.* Translates and incorporates business vision and strategy to architectural strategy recommendations at the functional level.* Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.* Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.* 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.* Advises senior management on technical strategy.* Researches and recommends new technologies.* Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.* Regularly provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.* Identifies and plans for future resource needs.* Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.**Education and Experience**:Bachelor 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, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing mainframe, batch, Spring, and Customer Information Control System (CICS) application development within a financial services environment.Or, alternatively, Master 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, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) performing mainframe, batch, Spring, and Customer Information Control System (CICS) application development within a financial services environment.**Skills and Knowledge**:Candidate must also possess:* Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing batch processing using Endevor version control, JCL, Cobol, DB2, CICS, SORT and File-Aid utility tools, and Control-M scheduling tool; and conducting performance testing on mainframe, batch, and online modules, using STROBE and SYSVIEW.* DE building batch applications using Spring Batch and JSR-352 frameworks; containerizing and deploying Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes; building data validations using rules engine; and performing performance tuning of distributed batch applications using Instana.* DE building Spring Boot applications using Kafka; building native stored procedures on DB2 using micro services architecture; and deploying Spring Boot applications using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.* DE developing Cobol mainframe and distributed modules that interface with distributed and Web consumer layer modules within defined contribution record keeping functionalities.#PE1M2#LI-DNIFidelity’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 TechnologyPlease 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.