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Product Owner (Streaming and Messaging)

Fidelity

Fidelity

Product
Merrimack, NH, USA · Durham, NC, USA
Posted on Aug 27, 2025

Job Description:

The Role

As a Product Owner with in Architecture and Technology Foundation (ATF) you will play a pivotal role in crafting the future of our event streaming and messaging capabilities. You will lead the product strategy, development, and delivery of key capabilities and features - Kafka, EMS, ActiveMQ Artemis, Notification Systems, and other real-time event and messaging technologies. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic product leadership, driving innovation and scalability across our high-performant streaming solutions.

With ATF being technology bedrock for Asset Management Technology (AM Tech), it is essential you bring a good blend of technical, process and product management knowledge to be successful. This is an exciting chance to create a significant impact by playing a key role in AM Tech, collaborating closely with various collaborators to ensure our products meet high standards.

The Value You Deliver

  • Define and maintain the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for event streaming and caching platforms & solutions.
  • Lead quarterly and annual planning, aligning product goals with business strategy and technology roadmaps.
  • Own and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring delivery of high-impact features and platform improvements.
  • Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
  • Collaborating and coordinating with Engineering Leaders and Scrum Masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development, and learning.
  • Defining, evaluating, and communicating results through feedback, usage and performance metrics.
  • Conduct market and internal research to see opportunities for innovation and optimization. Produce scaled up ideas which would further business goals and capabilities
  • Drive product lifecycle from conceptualization to deployment, ensuring alignment with

Product Leader Experience/Skills

  • Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high performing teams.
  • Customer focused approach to understanding customer needs, translate strategic objectives into action, making decisions, and prioritize to improve value delivered.
  • Ability to break requirements into clear and concise agile tasks with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria and optimally communicate.
  • Focused on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.
  • Establish and maintain positive relationships as you work closely across Fidelity to deliver business outcomes and seek out the expertise of colleagues to advise on your approach.
  • Intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching technology strategy.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in end-to-end technology solution delivery, with a focus on event streaming or related technologies.
  • Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, distributed systems, stream processing, and messaging strategies.
  • Hands-on expertise with Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, KSQL, Messaging – Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.
  • Full Stack development exposure with Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Typescript, Oracle, Snowflake, CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps practices.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Demonstrated success in quarterly and annual product planning, roadmap execution, and alignment.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and agile delivery skills.
  • Certifications: Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), AWS, Kafka are a plus.

The Team

Architecture and Technology Foundation (ATF) team is a central team within Asset Management that provides ready-to-use solutions composed of standard technology stacks, development frameworks, reusable software components and services.

We foster a culture of teamwork and openness, where every team member’s idea and contribution are appreciated. Come join us and be part of an outstanding team committed to innovation and excellence!

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Asset Management Technology (AM Tech) is the business unit that is responsible for delivering innovative, scalable, industry-leading investment tools that enable Fidelity’s Investment & Asset Management business to achieve a competitive advantage globally. AM Tech is an integral partner in setting Asset Management's strategic direction and has shared accountability for achieving Asset Management goals. AM Tech is a global organization of technologists based in the United States, London, India, and Ireland. Supporting multiple business functions in Investment Management and Advisory domain like Portfolio Management, Research & Trading.

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. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.

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. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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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.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s 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.

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 [email protected], 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

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

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 12,500 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 $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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