Squad Leader

Job Description

The Team

Strategic Advisers is a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC that provides investment management services to clients through Fidelity's retail and institutional distribution channels. For more than 30 years, Strategic Advisers has specialized in the design, construction, and management of asset allocation solutions, as well as the methodologies for many of Fidelity's investment planning tools, to help investors reach their financial goals. With over $1 trillion in assets under management, the Strategic Advisers team of investment professionals constructs and manages portfolios for over three million customer accounts. We (Strategic Advisors Technology) build and maintain the platforms that drive this growing business

The Role

Strategic Advisors Technology is seeking a Squad Leader (Director) to join our team. As a Squad Lead, you set overall purpose and vision for the work of a squad, serving as the end-to-end gatekeeper of the mission, strategy, product lifecycle, and value creation. You will collaborate closely with Fidelity's Strategic Advisors portfolio engineers, investment architects, and operations teams to understand their vision and challenges. From there, you'll work with your squad of analysts and engineers to deliver innovative, efficient, architecturally aligned, and timely solutions that benefit our clients and Fidelity. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about investment management, problem solving, building great things, and continuously improving.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in business/systems analysis, product ownership, product management, and/or project management
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technology or finance-related area
• Excellent communication, organization, planning, and presentation skills for your team
• Financial services industry knowledge and experience vital; investment management and/or wealth management domain knowledge a plus
• Experience working on distributed and multi-time zone teams
• Proven expertise designing, developing, and maintaining large, complex, and dynamic products and solutions
• Experience with Agile, Jira, and Jira Align, preferably from a planning perspective
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans for your squad or product area
• Experience deriving initiatives and workflows that can be broken down into epics and stories with well-defined business value and designs
• Track record of building highly engaged, industrious teams focused on execution, with the ability to identify, communicate, and remove impediments
• Effective at running fusions for estimating and planning large efforts, articulating project demands, assumptions, schedules, risks, and advising on product roadmap and capacity needs
• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues on solutions, ways of working, and tools without formal authority, often outside of direct teams and in matrixed situations
• Innovative, intellectually curious, and a great teammate who can promote an agile culture, process improvements, and tool enhancements

The Value You Deliver

• Develop solutions and capabilities to enhance the Account Management product/platform vision, meeting customer requirements
• Define, refine, and communicate the roadmap, mission, and plans for assigned Squads, products, and initiatives
• Act as a constant voice of the platform's stakeholders, helping your team focus on building the best product
• Collaborate and coordinate with Chapter Leaders, Architects, Scrum Masters, and Squad members to build squad capacity and capability to achieve goals

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Category

Information Technology