Director, Engineering - Finance

About the role

The Director, Engineering – Leader within Corporate Services Technology, supports Accounting and is accountable for the technical direction, delivery, and operational excellence of Accounting technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enterprise platforms in regulated environments.
• Manage software engineers and work closely with engineering teams for full lifecycle delivery.
• Partner with Accounting leadership, architects, and vendors on cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments.
• Manage vendor and platform partnerships, aligning roadmaps, integrations using APIs, event-driven, and secure integration patterns, and operational expectations aligned to Accounting and regulatory reporting priorities.
• Build or operate systems supporting high-risk domains such as general ledger, close and consolidation, investment accounting, digital assets, tax, intercompany, regulatory reporting, or financial data management platforms.
• Frame complex technical topics as decisions, risks, and options, while maintaining strong engineering standards.
• Support finance transformation initiatives including ERP modernization and AI enablement.

Requirements

• Deep software engineering leadership experience delivering enterprise platforms in regulated environments.
• Directly manage engineers responsible for full lifecycle delivery, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Strong engineering background across full-stack development, including modern front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular), back-end services (Java, APIs, microservices), and relational databases such as Oracle.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud-native architectures, including application deployment and operations on AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized environments.
• Experience managing vendor and platform partnerships, aligning roadmaps, integrations using APIs, event-driven, and secure integration patterns, and operational expectations aligned to Accounting and regulatory reporting priorities.
• Strong understanding of secure engineering practices, data governance, records retention, and compliance controls in regulated financial environments.
• Experience building or operating systems supporting high-risk domains such as general ledger, close and consolidation, investment accounting, digital assets, tax, intercompany, regulatory reporting, or financial data management platforms.
• Proven partnership experience with Accounting, Risk and Corporate Services stakeholders, framing complex technical topics as decisions, risks, and options, while maintaining strong engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Preferred understanding of Accounting processes, including Record-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, intercompany accounting, fixed assets, digital assets, and financial close processes across global, multi-entity organizations.
• Preferred experience with enterprise financial systems and a strong appreciation for how accounting processes translate into scalable system design, data models, and integrations.
• Preferred experience supporting finance transformation initiatives including ERP modernization and AI enablement.
• Preferred strong understanding of financial controls, audit requirements (e.g., SOX), regulatory compliance, and the importance of traceability, reconciliation, and data integrity in financial systems.

Skills

• Hands-on engineering leadership capability, including reviewing designs, guiding implementation approaches, and coaching engineers on code quality, architecture, and operational readiness.
• Ability to design and evolve scalable, maintainable systems while balancing delivery commitments and technical debt.
• Strong execution leadership skills, including sprint planning, driving cross-team alignment on dependencies, risks, and release readiness, and maintaining predictable delivery across multiple initiatives.
• Comfort operating across the full software development lifecycle, from early requirements through post-release support and incident management.
• Ability to partner effectively with architects, platform teams, and security partners to align solutions with enterprise standards.
• Clear and confident communication skills to explain complex technical topics to Accounting partners and senior leaders.
• Change leadership mindset that promotes adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, with a proactive approach to staying current on emerging technologies, evolving accounting standards, and modern enterprise architecture patterns.
• Intellectual curiosity and ownership mindset to self-educate in new domains (e.g., regulatory changes, financial data models, or new platforms) without reliance on formal training.

Benefits

Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in the job description.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in the job description.

Skills

• Hands-on engineering leadership capability, including reviewing designs, guiding implementation approaches, and coaching engineers on code quality, architecture, and operational readiness.
• Ability to design and evolve scalable, maintainable systems while balancing delivery commitments and technical debt.
• Strong execution leadership skills, including sprint planning, driving cross-team alignment on dependencies, risks, and release readiness, and maintaining predictable delivery across multiple initiatives.
• Comfort operating across the full software development lifecycle, from early requirements through post-release support and incident management.
• Ability to partner effectively with architects, platform teams, and security partners to align solutions with enterprise standards.
• Clear and confident communication skills to explain complex technical topics to Accounting partners and senior leaders.
• Change leadership mindset that promotes adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous learning, with a proactive approach to staying current on emerging technologies, evolving accounting standards, and modern enterprise architecture patterns.
• Intellectual curiosity and ownership mindset to self-educate in new domains (e.g., regulatory changes, financial data models, or new platforms) without reliance on formal training.