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Fidelity Bank · 9 hours ago

Engineering Leader – Director, Software Engineering

Smithfield, RI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Fidelity Bank is seeking an Engineering Leader for their Technology Group. The role involves leading and mentoring a team of software engineers, establishing engineering standards, and ensuring alignment with strategic business priorities to enhance customer value.

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Responsibilities

Ensure the team is aligned to strategic business priorities including workforce planning vital to provide increased value and results for our customers and the business

Support and empower team members, to enable delivery of increased value in their team’s results

Constantly promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement

Proactively partner with business and technology stakeholders to:

Influence strategic backlog and prioritisation decisions related to your area

Measure performance through established objectives and metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results

Align your people across teams and the business product to ensure the best utilisation of talent while also building learning opportunities and career development for your team

Set and apply best practices and standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps

Remove impediments to delivering value

Actively share insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organisation

Qualification

Agile development practicesSoftware engineering principlesCoachingMentoringJavaPythonDatabase technologiesData-driven decision makingPeople leadershipInterpersonal skillsCommunication skills

Required

10+ years experience in delivering software using agile development practices

Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams across multi functional disciplines such as software engineering, test automation, systems analysis, and delivery

Experience identifying and hiring talent needs; and resource planning and talent allocation across large organisations

Proven knowledge and experience of engineering principles, patterns and practices and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with which you build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships at all levels of the organization

Committed people leader capable of developing others to accelerate and achieve increased skill proficiency

Data-driven approach to decision making, in day-to-day leadership and strategic trade-off analyses

Strong technical proficiency with OOP and data; previous software development experience in at least one of the following is highly desirable: Development experience with Java and/or Python, Database technologies such as Snowflake, Oracle, Spark (Java or Scala)