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**Director, Engineering** at Fidelity overseeing philanthropic tech solutions. Define and execute tech strategy, lead cross-functional teams, and deliver scalable, secure systems. Key responsibilities include technical roadmap definition, solution delivery, and operational excellence. Requires hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, distributed services, databases, and CI/CD. Lead engineering talent lifecycle and foster innovation.
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Full Job Description
Job Description:
Director, Engineering
Fidelity Philanthropic Services
The Role
As a Director, Engineering you are responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy for one or more applications aligned with your capability area. You partner closely with Product Managers, Architects, IT Project Managers, Systems Analysts, and other enabling functions to translate strategic business objectives into scalable, secure, and resilient technology solutions.
In this role, you own the endtoend delivery, technical health, and operational stability of your applications and products while you also lead a delivery team of software engineers, systems analysts, and quality testers. You balance productlevel priorities with enterprise goals, ensure adherence to standards and best practices, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Our technology solutions serve the philanthropic community, including donors, financial advisors, and operations representatives who together drive charitable giving through grants to non-profit organizations.
Technical Roadmap Definition
Define and communicate a clear engineering strategy and execution roadmap aligned with business goals, product vision, and enterprise technology direction.
Own delivery targets, ensuring focus on business outcomes, customer experience, and longterm platform sustainability.
Translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into technical milestones and delivery plans.
Apply enterprise thinking to balance nearterm product needs with reuse, scalability, and standardization across the ecosystem.
Ensure alignment with architecture.
Technical Leadership & Solution Delivery
Provide technical leadership across a cross-functional delivery team, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and operationally sound.
Enforce coding standards and engineering patterns
Maintain strong technical credibility with experience across:
web services and APIs
database systems
modern web architectures and distributed systems
Partner with architecture and engineering peers to ensure technical quality, maintainability, and architectural integrity.
Ensure ontime, highquality releases, while maintaining platform stability during production support, peak periods, and market events.
Delivery Oversight & Operational Excellence
Lead engineering input related to estimation, dependency mapping, sequencing, and capacity planning.
Partner with Product and Program/Project Management to ensure delivery health, progress transparency, and stakeholder communication.
Champion continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices to improve quality, speed, and reliability.
Support production incident and outage management, including triage, recovery, root cause analysis, and preventive remediation.
Talent Strategy, Workforce Planning & Change Leadership
Accountable for engineering talent lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, and career development.
Build, mentor, and scale highperforming engineering leadership teams that embrace innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, tools, and ways of working, leading teams through change effectively.
The Skills and Expertise You Bring
Prior experience managing engineers
Strong conceptual understanding of objectoriented design and engineering design patterns
Handson experience designing and delivering RESTful APIs and distributed services.
Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
Solid understanding of SDLC best practices, governance, and quality controls.
Passion for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
The Team
We are exceptionally proud of the Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund (the charity), which sponsors the largest national donor-advised fund program. Since 1991, the charity has empowered tens of thousands of donors to improve their philanthropic impact. Governed by an independent Board of Trustees, the charity relies on NCS, a business unit of Fidelity Investments, as its service provider. NCS delivers a comprehensive suite of services, including Program Development, Investment Management, Service Delivery, Marketing, Tax Preparation, Technology, Compliance, and Fundraising. Our team thrives on collaboration, world-class service, and a strong dedication to our clients goals!
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Information TechnologyPlease be advised that Fidelitys business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
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Benefits that balance life and work
From our fully paid parent leave to our on-site health and wellness centers, our benefits support the belief that more balance you have, the better you can achieve your goals.
Company overview
Company overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about 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 experience.
Reasonable accommodations
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 the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.
Equal opportunity employer
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.
Applicant screening
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
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