Director Engineering - Artifact Management Platform

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

Fidelity's ALM Tools and Platforms team within Enterprise Architecture & Engineering are seeking a Technical Engineering Lead to own, operate, and scale our enterprise artifact management platforms. This is a hands-on leadership role combining deep technical expertise, large-scale platform operations, software supply chain security, and people management.

Key Responsibilities of this role are:

Platform and Technical Leadership

• Design, operate, and scale artifact management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or equivalent

• Remain hands-on by contributing to platform configuration, automation, troubleshooting, and incident response

• Own availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency of artifact platforms at enterprise scale

• Design for high-throughput, bursty traffic and global usage while protecting platforms from abuse and overload

Open Source and Supply Chain Security

• Manage ingestion, storage, and distribution of open source and third-party packages

• Implement software supply chain security controls including vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement

• Ensure artifact provenance, integrity, and compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements

Scale, Cloud and Infrastructure

• Architect and operate platforms handling very large volumes of artifacts, metadata, and requests

• Apply deep understanding of compute, storage, network, IO, caching, and replication trade-offs

• Lead or contribute to migrations from on-premises to cloud or hybrid architectures

• Design for elastic scale, cost control, and operational simplicity in cloud environments

Reliability, Resilience and Observability

• Design and operate systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery

• Define and manage SLIs and SLOs for artifact platforms

• Build strong monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing to support rapid detection and recovery

People and Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers responsible for artifact management platforms

• Set clear technical direction, operational standards, and priorities

• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Collaboration

• Partner closely with DevOps, CI/CD, security, SRE, and developer teams

• Act as a trusted platform owner for the broader engineering organization

The Skills and Expertise You Bring:

• Strong experience with JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or similar artifact repositories

• Hands-on experience with Java, Python or Go.

• Able to review code, log analytics, deep technical dive, architecture, etc.

• Experience with (IaC) Infrastructure as Code, i.e. Terraform, OpenTofu, or CloudFormation.

• Experience with Cloud AWS, Kubernetes, EC2.

• Experience leading, coaching, and developing a team of engineers.

• Proven track record running large-scale, business-critical enterprise platforms

• Deep understanding of open source ecosystems and package management

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and high-traffic services

• Practical experience migrating from on-prem to cloud environments

• Strong grounding in high availability, resilience, and observability

• An inquisitive, collaborative leader with experience managing and mentoring engineers

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
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.

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