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Director, Full Stack Engineering Leader, Adobe CMS and Java

Fidelity

Fidelity

Software Engineering
Durham, NC, USA
Posted on May 14, 2025
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Job Description:

Note: This is a Leadership role, with 6-8 direct reports. The site location for this opening will be our Durham, NC office as part of our Hybrid Working model, and additionally, the final round of this interview process will consist of a mandatory onsite interview with the team in Durham, NC. Additionally, by applying to this role, you acknowledge you are solely responsible for the cost of relocating to your assigned site, as we are unable to provide a relocation package for this opening.

The Role

Are you a hands-on technology leader with deep expertise in Adobe Sites and Adobe Assets, particularly in the financial sector? Do you have a passion for building and leading high-performing engineering teams to deliver impactful content management capabilities at scale? If you thrive in a collaborative environment and want to shape the future of content management at Fidelity Investments, this opportunity in our Customer Data and Marketing Technologies (CDMT) team within the Wealth and Brokerage Business Unit may be the right fit for you!

We are seeking an Engineering Leader to drive the development and execution of our Adobe Enterprise Content Management Platform, a real-time, cloud-hosted content platform that plays a crucial role in delivering exceptional customer experiences. In this role, you will bring technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership skills to align engineering efforts with business goals while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

The Value You Deliver

Strategic Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical expertise, thought leadership, and consulting across Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering teams within multiple business units.

• Design scalable, reusable, and simplified solutions, avoiding unnecessary customizations.

• Serve as a domain expert on Adobe Sites (Content Management System) and Adobe Assets (Digital Asset Management), staying informed on industry advancements and best practices.

• Develop robust integration strategies for Adobe Sites/Assets, ensuring seamless connectivity with services inside and outside the CMS, both in headless and traditional architectures.

• Lead large-scale content migrations from various CMS platforms into Adobe Sites, leveraging automation and best practices to ensure smooth transitions as measured by Net Promoter Scores from our stakeholders.

• Take a data-driven approach to understanding customer needs and shaping content management solutions.

• Collaborate with product owners and squad leaders across business units to prioritize technical efforts and provide expert recommendations on product features and capabilities.

• Partner with Architecture and Platform Engineering teams to define and align technical direction with enterprise technology strategies.

• Ensure solutions meet security, scalability, high availability, and compliance requirements, leveraging cloud-native platforms and best practices.

• Promote creative problem-solving and foster an environment where engineers can explore innovative solutions to complex challenges.

Engaging People Leadership

• Establish and communicate a clear vision, roadmap, and expectations for achieving engineering excellence within the team.

• Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent while fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

• Conduct talent reviews, performance evaluations, and career development planning to support the growth of engineers.

• Work closely with senior leadership to align workforce planning with business priorities, ensuring the right expertise is available at the right time.

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 6+ years of experience in Web Content Management, specifically with Adobe Sites Experience Cloud Service.

• Hands-on expertise with AEM development in AEM-Sites and AEM-Assets, such as, components, templates, sling models, OSGi services, content fragment models, experience fragments and workflow.

• Hands-on expertise with configuring and optimizing AEM Dispatcher for caching, security and performance and able to troubleshoot Dispatcher related issues. Knowledge in AEM Dispatcher rules, rewrite rules and load balancing techniques.

• Hands-on expertise with AEM Cloud Deployment Processes and setting up and managing AEM instances on Cloud Manager.

• Experience with Headless CMS implementations and AEM Content Fragments.

• Strong working knowledge to be able to guide the engineering team on CI/CD tools (Jenkins on Cloud, Kubernetes, Argo CD, DataDog/Splunk, Selenium, Git, Maven). Hands-on expertise on Java 21.

• 5+ years of people management and leadership experience in an agile software development, architecture, or platform engineering environment.

• 5+ years of experience with Adobe Digital Asset Manager (Adobe Assets) and expertise in integrating it within an Adobe Cloud environment.

• Experience integrating third-party tools (e.g., Semaphore, Nuxeo, legal review tools) into a seamless user experience.

• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing software engineering teams, with a track record of attracting and retaining top talent.

• Strong leadership in fostering innovation and a culture of inclusion, experimentation, and continuous learning.

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including:

• API development and data modeling.

• Scalable cloud-based solutions in AWS and Azure.

• Microservices, serverless, event-driven, and distributed architecture patterns.

• Experience working with DevOps metrics to drive engineering excellence and operational efficiency.

• Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders across business units, ensuring alignment on objectives, KPIs, and technical standards.

• Strong communication, negotiation, and executive-level influence skills

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

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 experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

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 the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

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.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments

At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.

Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.

These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.

  • Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
  • Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
  • 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.

Giving Back to Our Communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
  • Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.

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