Squad Leader

Job Description:

Role

As one of the Fixed Income Bond SMA Squad Leaders, you blend investment management, relevant industry knowledge and an Agile mindset for delivering results with a passion. As the product owner you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad's mission, strategy, and tactical execution associated with delivering on strategic priorities. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions, roadmaps and resource requirements. You will set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to execute. You will alignment the Squad on the 'what' and 'when' work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog. You will enable squad members to work iteratively, innovate through testing and experimentation and learn from failures while celebrating success. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science or engineering preferred.

• 2+ years’ experience working as a Product Owner in a software development environment.

• Experience designing, creating and maintaining dynamic products and solutions.

• Experience building roadmaps and working with agile team to deliver on milestones.

• Asset Management experience preferred.

• Agile experience preferred.

The Skills You Bring

• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively engage our business partner who are investment professional in order to understand their business needs to create requirements and strategy for the technical solutions which the squads will build

• Dedication to understanding and learning the user’s needs and requirements as well as the proposed technology solutions to ensure they meet the business expectations

• Adept with coordinating collaborator meetings and facilitating prioritization decisions.

• You are self-motivated, driven, and have a strong client focus and results orientation approach

• You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.

The Value You Deliver

• Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to empower and establish team and partner support and alignment.

• Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria.

• Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team.

• Measuring performance against established objectives and critical metrics and delivering agreed upon business, technology, and people results.

• Collaborating and coordinating with chapter leaders and scrum masters to build squad capacity and capability and enabling squad member growth, development, and learning.

• Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.

• Participating in client meetings to present strategic roadmaps, participate in client usability sessions, engage with client user groups.

The Team

In our Fixed Income Technology organization, we are committed to empowering our investment professionals with the very best tools and technologies to deliver world class investment performance to our customers. Our technology experts work across a broad array of investment processes supporting many different types of securities and investment objectives. Through outstanding business and technology partnership, we can offer great solutions to help our customers meet their financial objectives.

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Category:

Product Management

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.