Director, Product Management - 2056447

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Posted on: June 17, 2022

Job Description:

Leads teams in re-engineering technology from legacy mainframe to Cloud technology -- moving to Amazon Web Services. Ensures chapter composition aligns with business needs, including the workforce planning necessary to deliver value and results for clients and the business. Assigns and reviews work streams across teams, ensuring employees have an understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), the required level of database skills, and are proficient in Angular skills for User Interface development.

Primary Responsibilities:

Participates in design discussions, ensuring there is synergy across all teams.

Identifies proficiency, expertise, and resource gaps.

Recruits, trains, and hires subordinate employees.

Identifies coaching needs and provides expertise in automation testing -- regression, unit, and integration testing.

Ensures all squad members abide by Agile principals and follow the SDLC in an Agile methodology.

Communicates directions to team members, revolving the testing tools to be used, or the design aspects and reuse of capabilities, and ensures the team is in alignment with the strategy of the firm.

Measures performance through established Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and delivers agreed upon business, technology, and people results.

Develops code with a unit testing coverage of more than 85%.

Allocates chapter members across squads to ensure best utilization of talent while also creating appropriate learning opportunities.

Sets and enforces standards and ensures the work performed is aligned with established road maps.

Facilitates project, sprint, and release planning, backlog creation, story estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for the development of the next generation corporate action processing systems that modernize existing mainframe systems according to Scrum methodologies.

Collaborates and removes impediments to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Oversees alignment with the overarching goal of the business unit.

Directs daily operations of departments, analyzes workflows, establishes priorities, develops standards, and sets deadlines.

Oversee projects and implements the latest software versions for each product, eliminating the risk of running an unapproved, unlicensed version of the software.

Meets with department heads, managers, supervisors, and vendors, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.

Reviews the progress of the projects and increases efficiency wherever possible in the goal of adding and delivering value.

Prepares and reviews operational reports or project progress reports.

Plans and leads organization wide initiatives.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, Management, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or six (6) years of experience designing, implementing, and project managing information technology solutions and implementations within a financial services operations and product development environment.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, Management, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience designing, implementing, and project managing information technology solutions and implementations within a financial services operations and product development environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) managing the delivery of systems functionality, using JIRA and Agile tools; managing the migration of complex applications from mainframe to next-generation technology, using Java Webservices, Oracle database, Cloud services, and Event Driven Processes; developing technology roadmaps, and strategy and system enhancements to support business processes; and leading a team in the development of Web service tools, using Git, Sprint Tool Suite, Oracle development tool, Jenkins, Stash, and Postman.

DE facilitating project, sprint, and release planning, backlog creation, story estimation, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for the development of next generation corporate action processing systems that modernize existing mainframe systems according to Scrum methodologies; creating a next generation booking system for policy booking mainframe batch processes to be reengineered into real time Web services for legacy producer licensing systems to be reengineered into Web UIs that use RESTful services in American International Group, Inc. (AIG), using Microsoft (Project Planner, Visio, and Excel) and Atlassian (JIRA) tools.

DE executing all phases of the systems development project lifecycle -- requirements analysis through implementation, including developing and maintaining project plans, and performing data modeling, mapping, analysis, and migration between databases, including legacy corporate action dividend, voluntary, and asset services databases -- using Jira and Confluence according to Agile and Scrum methodologies.

DE managing an engineering team -- recruiting, hiring, and retaining staff, identifying skill gaps, and providing individual and team mentorship -- to accommodate product needs, technical expertise, and individual growth.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2056447.

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