Job Description:

As the Director Quant Engineering you will manage and lead a team of engineers supporting highly skilled, software engineers developing quantitative solutions as part Quantitative Research and Investment Technology (QRIT) to support all areas in Asset Management. You blend deep expertise and experience in financial domain, applied mathematics, engineering, technical design, and leading high-performance teams with a passion for coaching, mentoring, and developing associates. You are deeply committed to contributing value to our customer. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to establish the standards for your area and influence the strategic decisions, solution development and work priorities, based on your expertise and experience. You will directly manage team members working on multi-functional squads. You actively bring new ideas, approaches, and insights to improve the work and develop new skills and capabilities in your area, enabling associate growth while adding greater value. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking from the industry to shape the strategy of the organization by influencing other leaders.

• Ensuring team talent composition aligns with strategic priorities, including workforce planning vital to deliver value and results for customer and the business
• Supporting, mentoring, developing and enabling associates to deliver increased value to the product areas and squads they support
• Translating strategic changes and enterprise initiatives from enterprise groups to insights, and impacts to our customers and roadmap
• Influence strategic decisions and priorities related to your domain of expertise and remove strategic impediments to delivering value
• Measure performance through established objectives and KPIs to deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
• Actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments within your area of expertise, across the organization
• Support the delivery of solutions across multiple teams based on Full stack application development.
• Ensure and guide the teams to deliver strategic goals through fostering “fit for purpose” design, effective governance, leading standards, service continuity and continuous improvement over time.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Minimum of 15 years of software engineering and development experience
• Bachelor's degree (or above) in a quantitative or computational field such as Statistics, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
• An understanding of quantitative techniques and methods, statistics and econometrics – including probability, linear regression and time series data analysis would be advantageous but not essential
• Experience in all layers of the technology stack including data, middle-tier, and front-end capabilities
• Expertise in quantitative environment and technology landscape.
• Deep understanding of quantitative portfolio construction techniques in a multi-asset class context, portfolio optimization and statistics.
• Ability to engage with researchers and investment professionals
• Hands on software developer passionate about engineering excellence, highly focused, innovative, self-starter, collaborator, and someone who’s eager to learn and mentor every day.
• Senior level experience leading, coaching, mentoring and developing people and teams
• Experience identifying and acquiring strategic talent needs; and strategic resource planning and talent allocation across large organizations
• Agile leadership experience
• You are a committed and inspirational people leader capable of developing others within your knowledge area to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency
• You have strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with which you influence decisions and engage across Fidelity and at all levels of the organization
• You have a continuous improvement approach and encourage and enable an agile way of working
• You take a data-focused approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic tradeoff analyses
• Provide thought leadership within your area of Application development delivery and management. Your strong domain knowledge makes you not only an expert but also responsible for building, maintaining, and developing a competence area across the domain

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Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. Fidelity established an Ireland presence in 1996 and we currently employ 1,300 staff across IT and shared services, with offices in Dublin (City West) and Galway (Parkmore East). For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityInvestments.ie.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.

We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact AccommodationsIreland@fmr.com.