Job Description:
The Team
This Director of Distributed Storage Engineering role spans across multiple product areas with a focus on delivering solutions to meet the demands of business-critical workloads supporting all areas of the firm's financial services. You will work with technology leadership and architects to define target architecture, establish product roadmaps, and deliver high performing, cost effective and highly reliable solutions to meet the demands of this large financial institution.
As a leading member of this team you will work to evaluate business and technology strategy and direction and deliver best in class capabilities for our customers. You will be directly involved in defining vendor strategies and business cases that clearly present technological capabilities along with costs to enable executive leadership to make solid and fact-based business decisions. You will influence the direction of distributed storage services. You will be required to present these strategies clearly to executive management and regularly report on the progress of critical projects.
The Expertise You Have
An ideal candidate will have a solid computer science background across distributed compute and storage. Networking knowledge would be an additional skill that would enable you to stand out among the candidates. You should be very familiar with industry standards and direction. A deep understanding of multiple vendor capabilities in storage services is required. You should have a good understanding of budget processes as well as the creation of business cases to justify the acquisition of new technologies. Knowledge of cloud computing would be another differentiator. A bachelor's degree in computer science or similar discipline is preferred but not required. A strong distributed storage background as well as server experience is required via a combination of the following experiences:
- Proven track record of distributed storage engineering including product selection, implementation and ongoing management of critical platforms
- Experience supporting multiple block storage array types and vendors
- Experience managing large Fiber Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- Experience supporting iSCSI protocol for large block storage arrays
- Critical troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify root cause for storage incidents
- Strong capacity management background as well as performance troubleshooting skills
- Possess a strong security first mindset ensuring critical systems are compliant and secure
The Skills You Bring
- Deep understand of storage technologies (SAN/Block, NAS, Object, Cloud Storage)
- Significant practical experience with storage protocols (Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NVMe)
- Ability to manage technology lifecycle ensuring software/hardware currency and compliance
- Strong coding skills enabling the automation of basic and complex operations
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages
- Ability to manage vendor relationships and guide product development
- Ability to provide leadership and crisis management during critical incidents
- Strong verbal, written and presentation skills
- Ability to clearly articulate updates to executive manage while still possessing deep technical knowledge enabling detailed discussions with vendors and other support teams
- Thrives in an Agile environment: ability to prioritize the work, ensure all are contributing appropriately, and ultimately focus and finish critical initiatives
The Value You Deliver
You will be supporting an international team of engineers focused on delivering best in class distributed storage capabilities. Your background will enable you to drive strategic decisions for the technology that supports our financial customers. Through very close coordination and collaboration with leadership, product management, architecture and other support teams you will deliver on critical goals laid out for the organization. You will be mentoring a team of engineers and enabling technical growth. You will be guiding the team in the development of roadmaps. You will be collaborating across the organization to develop plans to implement the strategy laid out.
Certifications: Category: Information Technology
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.