Vice President, Technology (Stock Plan Services) Job

Date: Oct 6, 2010

Location: Durham, NC, US

Vice President, Technology (Stock Plan Services) - 1004106

Description

Position Description

Fidelity Stock Plan Services (SPS) is seeking a Vice President of Technology for this growth business. SPS provides public companies with the expertise and convenience of a single provider to administer their equity compensation programs across a range of vehicles, including: Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Restricted Stock Awards/Units, Stock Option Plans, and Stock Appreciation Rights.

The Team - located in Boston, Merrimack, North Carolina and India - is broken down into Architecture, Development, Distributed Support, Implementations, Platform Development, Production Services and Program Management groups.

The Vice President of Technology for Stock Plan Services (Equity Compensation) is accountable for IT strategy, platform development, product development, client implementations, client change requests and level 3 production support. This role is responsible for directly managing the work of 50 technology professionals, facing off with key business leaders and coordinating multi-platform development and release management with IT partners.

Primary Responsibilities

* Actively manage all Stock Plan technology development programs

* Provide strategic direction for IT aspects of the multi-year roadmap

* Formulating a short and long term product/technology delivery Schedule:

* Interact with Technology partners to ensure

* Accountability to service levels

* Adherence to discretionary development program schedules

* IT budget management

* Directly manage development, implementation and support organizations - (50 associates)

* Communicate to senior management on progress

* Relationship manager for business partners

Qualifications

Education and Experience


* BS/BA Degree in Business Management or Computer Science or equivalent

* MBA highly preferred

* 10 - 20 years of IT management & delivery experience in the investment domain

Skills and Knowledge
:

* Stock Plan and Brokerage technology industry experience is preferred

* Full software development lifecycle experience

* Client implementation experience

* Proven experience in creating platform scale and efficiency

* Workforce modeling and organizational development skills

* Strategy and product roadmap development

* Strong business partnership skills are essential

* Strong written and verbal communications skills

* Proven leadership, planning and collaboration

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Fidelity offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, and human resources and benefits outsourcing services to over 20 million individuals and institutions as well as thousands of financial intermediary firms. The firm is the largest mutual fund company in the United States, the No. 1 provider of workplace retirement savings plans, the largest mutual fund supermarket, a leading online brokerage firm and one of the largest providers of custody and clearing services to financial professionals. For more information about Fidelity Investments, visit www.fidelity.com.

Job

: Technical Management

Primary Location

: NC-Durham

Schedule

: Full-time

Job Level:

: Executive

Education Level

: Bachelor's Degree (±16 years)

Job Type

: Standard

Shift:

: Day Job

Overtime Status:

: Exempt

Travel:

: No

Nearest Major Market: Durham
Nearest Secondary Market: Raleigh
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