Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering

Delivery Team Leader – Data & Reporting Platforms

The Fidelity Insurance Agency (formerly FILI) Platform team seeks a dynamic leader to oversee a team in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure with a focus on Snowflake. This role combines technical leadership, data modeling, data pipeline design, and collaboration across business and technology teams to ensure data quality and business value.

• Provide day-to-day leadership for a delivery team comprised of engineering and product resources, and indirect leadership of supporting teams, i.e., architecture, quality, and program management.
• Engage team members in an agile structure to deliver solutions that drive efficiency and effectiveness against defined product objectives and the team mission while continuously improving, innovating, experimenting, learning, and celebrating success.
• Commit to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the team, including talent lifecycle management and performance management.
• Act as a trusted advisor for functional capabilities of the platform or system, aligning resources to the highest priorities in partnership with the Platform Leader and ensuring effective production support coverage.
• Accountable for alignment to functional strategy, including technology standards, policies & improving reuse within the enterprise ecosystem & across the function.
• Responsible for proactive research, analysis and recommendation of new & existing feature opportunities that align with Platform Group strategies.
• Participate and actively contribute to assessing platform choices for the future; ensure overall operational health of the platform/system.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 10+ years of relevant experience leading teams and developing products and solutions with technology.
• Knowledge of the insurance industry is preferred.
• Mentoring and guiding data engineers and analysts.
• Defining and implementing best practices for operational and analytical data stores.
• Leading the design and development of warehouse solutions like Snowflake.
• Driving continuous improvement of the data platform and architecture.
• Designing and implementing data pipelines and ETL processes using Snowflake, Snaplogic and similar technologies.
• Ensuring data quality, privacy, security, and compliance.
• Collaborating with data scientists, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Strong understanding of cloud databases (AWS RDS, Aurora, Postgre
  
  SQL, Dynamo
  
  DB).
• Experience with SQL, Python, and other relevant programming languages preferred.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong planning, project management, consulting, leadership, and talent management skills.
• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with Jira and Jira Align preferred.
• Leadership – demonstrating expertise in leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams.
• Management – able to delegate, mentor and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners that may report directly to you.

This Delivery team is part of Fidelity Wealth Technology; focused on empowering customers and associates to thrive in a digital‑first world through the creation of scalable business capabilities and platforms that support and power much of our Brokerage, Wealth and Workplace businesses.

• Seniority level:
  Director
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology