Director, Software Engineering

Director, Software Engineering### Director, Software Engineering Apply:
Westlake, TX:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
December 15, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
2137712
** Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.**## ##

Job Description:

** Position Description**:

Leads the engineering implementations and architecture of cloud-based data engineering and advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) & analytics platforms. Guides adoption of modern software engineering practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), and cloud-native architectures. Establishes and governs code quality metrics, deployment pipelines, and integration test coverage. Provides delivery status visibility using tools including Jira, Confluence, and Tableau dashboards. Applies Agile delivery models including Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for enterprise-scale initiatives.

Advances Dev Ops practices through automation of build, test, and deploy workflows. Ensures integration of observability, logging, and monitoring capabilities across analytics platforms. Manages implementation and operation of advanced analytics, data platforms, and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions supporting workforce data use cases. Evaluates and approves analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data science platforms including vendor-delivered and managed services.

Partners with cybersecurity, risk, compliance, data architecture, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) teams to ensure secure and compliant handling of associate and workforce data.
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* Primary Responsibilities:

*** Drives cloud based AI and advanced analytics strategy and delivery, leading cross functional teams to build scalable solutions, standardize data and model practices, and align capabilities with business priorities to improve decision making and operational efficiency.
* Acts as a trusted partner and product leader, defining vision and roadmaps, enabling team empowerment and collaboration, and balancing business value, technology goals, and delivery constraints to ensure adoption, customer satisfaction, and sustained organizational growth.
* Defines and communicates product vision, mission, and multi-year roadmap aligned to business priorities and technology transformation goals.
* Serves as a trusted technology delivery partner translating business vision into actionable capabilities that drive value, adoption, and associate engagement.
* Manages complex, cross-functional, enterprise-scale initiatives across distributed systems and microservices architectures.
* Balances business value, technology goals, quality, delivery cost, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and timelines to ensure effective delivery capability.
* Establishes delivery milestones, timelines, capacity planning, and dependency management for complex initiatives.
* Promotes enterprise-standard analytics consumption and delivery practices across business units.
* Manages vendor relationships including contract negotiation, Service Level Agreement (SLA) governance, escalation management, and third-party platform oversight.
* Ensures execution of third-party product upgrades, patching schedules, license renewals, and enterprise platform rollouts to maintain stability, security, and compliance.
** Education and Experience**:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Software Engineering (or closely related occupation) architecting, building, deploying, and monitoring real-time and batch pipelines for data engineering.

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