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Director, Full Stack Engineering Leader

Fidelity

Fidelity

Software Engineering
Durham, NC, USA
Posted on Jan 16, 2026
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Job Description:

Director, Engineering Leader, Full Stack Engineering

Director, Engineering Leader – Personalization Platform role brings skilled expertise as an Engineering leader with vision and partnership to align product management teams, providing engineering leadership, fostering a vibrant community of growth, development, and continuous improvement across skills. This multidimensional role is crucial to the development of customer-centric solutions founded on dynamic engineering principles and subject areas. We seek a credible Engineering Leader to join the Personalization Platform Engineering organization, and this Engineering Leader will lead the engineering team aligned to deliver the personalization solutions.

The Value You Deliver

Dynamic Engineering Leadership:

  • Provide Engineering expertise, thought leadership and consulting across Product Management, Engineering & Human-Centric Design subject areas.

  • Provide technical and functional oversight with product management teams to ensure we are building the best products, platforms, and experiences for our customers.

  • Collaborate with your product leaders to prioritize technical efforts and provide guidance on product features and capabilities.

  • Collaborate with architecture and Platform Engineering teams on setting technical direction and ensure alignment with our technology strategy.

  • Ensure engineered solutions address scale, reuse, and high availability requirements by using platforms and established standard methodologies.

  • Accelerate & increase efficiency by continuously improving engineering & operations practices.

  • Engage as a domain expert, staying abreast of the external industry trends, advancements, and innovations in technical areas of expertise.

  • Collaborate with multiple teams in the organization and the ability to deal with ambiguity and work in fast paced environment.

Engaging Engineering Leadership:

  • Create and promote the vision, roadmap, and expectations for your engineering teams to achieve engineering excellence in all results.

  • Define and implement a plan to attract, hire, build and retain the optimal skills for your Teams.

  • Facilitate learning at scale to promote skill, career, and development growth for technologists on the team

  • Maintain and share knowledge and expertise on the evolving needs of customers, internal and external markets, and industry trends and changes across our community.

  • Lead team members through a high degree of organizational complexity in support of cross-domain and cross-product area work.

  • As the direct reporting manager for technologists, you will be responsible for talent reviews, performance evaluation, compensation decisions, goal setting, career development, and top talent recruitment practices.

  • Advance Diversity and Inclusion through promotion of inclusive hiring practices, mentoring, and coaching.

The Skills and Expertise You Bring

  • 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering & Development

  • 5+ years of experience in developing data applications in Cloud (AWS)

  • Proven experience working hands-on on software engineering problems - Development of APIs, Data intensive applications, and scaling cloud-based solutions, etc. using variety of programming languages like Java/Python.

  • Experience in application architecture design and development on AWS using various architecture patterns (e.g., Distributed, Serverless, Event Driven, Microservices etc.) and can articulate the right paradigm for the problem at hand,

  • Expertise in data movement technologies (ETL/ELT), Integration Technologies (SQS, SNS, Airflow, Step Functions) and Analytics Services (AWS Glue, Data Pipeline, EMR, Kinesis)

  • Expertise in Relational and NoSQL databases (Dynamo DB, Elastic search, Graph database)

  • Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Docker).

  • Delivery oversight experience of implementation projects, managing development teams, and should be aware of production support framework and handling escalations.

  • Ability to collaborate across business units, with peers and leadership to ensure objectives, KPI's and standards are aligned.

  • Ability to attract, hire and build a pool of diverse, engaged engineers with the skills needed today and in the future.

  • Ability to connect with and influence all levels of the organization and motivate change

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

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.

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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

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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