Location: Covington,KY, USA
Job Description:
The Role
As a Stock Plan Services (SPS) Mainframe Squad Leader, you blend Stock Plan expertise with a passion for delivering results. In an agile format and structure, you will partner with other leaders to influence the broader strategic decisions and roadmaps, define the resource requirements, set the mission, and bring the squad together to execute on specific results and ensure respective products or services are available, stable, performant, and supported when required and related cost and maintenance is managed. You will ensure alignment on the \u201Cwhat\u201D and \u201Cwhen\u201D of the work performed by the squad through ongoing planning and prioritization, to enable the squad to work iteratively, innovate when appropriate, celebrate successes, and learn from failures. You will also be committed to maintaining and developing your own expertise and knowledge to ensure you bring the latest thinking to your role. This Squad Lead will also play a primary role in helping define and drive the SPS Mainframe strategy as we progress along our modernization journey. \u00A0
Defining, refining, and communicating the your team's mission to squad members and business partners to empower and rally support
Anticipating, discovering, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as the voice of the clients and guide execution of the squad
Measuring performance through established critical metrics and deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results
Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments for your squad
Defining, presenting, and evaluating results against agreed acceptance criteria
Making informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
5-10 years of related product management experience, systems development, product development, and/or project/product management
Bachelor s degree preferred
Financial services experience preferred\u00A0
Agile experience preferred
Experience with platform modernization preferred
You take a data-driven approach to understanding client needs, you translate strategic goals into action, and prioritize to maximize value delivered
Experience defining a large scale strategy and helping lead teams through change
You have a continuous improvement approach
You are energized by working collaboratively to deliver agreed business outcomes, drawing on the expertise of colleagues to inform the approach and remove impediments to making progress
You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building high-performing teams
You are intellectually curious and model a culture of learning and coaching
The Team
Stock Plan Services (SPS) provides companies with outstanding administration for their equity compensation programs, including stock option, restricted stock, employee stock purchase, stock appreciate and performance plans. SPS Product Development supports the business and technology work streams that deliver against approved initiatives including new products for emerging markets and improvements to existing products.
You will work in partnership with the Product Area Leader, team members, and chapter leaders. By role modeling and promoting agile and Fidelity leadership principles, you will promote and sustain an innovative agile culture.
Certifications:Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients money.
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\u2014we 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).
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, detailed in this document
, 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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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.
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