Description:
As the Event Streaming Platform Engineering Squad Leader, you are a critical part of the Kafka based Streaming Platform team. You blend application development and deep cloud expertise with a passion for delivering results. As the product owner, you are the end-to-end gatekeeper of the squad 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, set and refine the mission, and bring together a team of chapter members to complete specific product features that help application teams across Fidelity use our cloud ecosystem to its fullest capability. You will ensure alignment 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.
- Defining, refining, and communicating the squads' mission and roadmap to motivate and hire team and partner support and alignment.
- Anticipating, discovering through ongoing interaction with, and prioritizing client / partner needs to serve as their voice and guide execution of the team.
- Defining, evaluating, and communicating results against acceptance criteria
- Inspecting and evaluating progress, and removing impediments
- Measuring performance against established objectives and KPI’s that deliver on agreed upon business, technology, and people results.
- Collaborating and coordinating with Chapter Leaders and Scrum Master’s 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.
- Engaging with Fidelity and cloud service provider product teams to simplify Container Management usage and build patterns to accelerate feature delivery across the firm.
The Expertise And Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a technology related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required.
- Demonstrable progressively more responsibility delivering in Streaming technology like Kafka.
- 8+ years’ work experience in Kafka, Redpanda, Kinesis, Kubernetes, Java, and containers tools
- In depth knowledge of at least 1 public cloud service provider (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Practical experience in building cloud hosted and native applications for the enterprise. Maintains a deep understanding of a wide variety of cloud technology to provide recommendations and advice to Fidelity application teams.
- Experience with internet security: OAuth, Open ID Connect and knowledge of standard methodologies.
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and experience working with it in a production environment
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining dynamic products and solutions.
- Hands-on experience designing systems that use modern distributed Software Architecture Patterns (e.g. CQRS/Event Sourcing, Streaming, Microservices, Service Bus, Service Mesh)
- You have a strong focus on execution and identify, communicate, and remove impediments to progress.
- You are capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority, and have a track record of building hard-working teams.
- You are intellectually curious and model a culture of continuous learning, mentoring, and coaching.
- You have or are committed to developing a balance of technology and non-technology skills to fully appreciate the broad needs of our customers.