Vice President -Head Of Distributed Compute And Storage India

The Purpose of This Role

The Individual we are seeking to hire is a techno-functional manager with well-honed deep expertise & passion for coaching and developing people. The Team lead will work closely with the management and other Stakeholders to deliver and enhance Business Outcomes. By role modeling and promoting Fidelity and Agile leadership behaviors, you will create and sustain an innovative agile culture.

The Value You Deliver

• Accountable to lead the systems and software engineering and operations teams of Distributed Compute and Storage (DCS) function during India hours, as well as oversight on Enterprise Cloud operations 
• Partner and collaborate with the global DCS team to build and prioritize the DCS roadmap
• Coach and mentor leadership team of DCS India
• Set team goals, priorities and success measures that are essential for the Performance & Talent Management of the Team.
• Build the future ready talented associates within the team and work with them closely towards building full stack skills and innovation culture.
• Lead and deliver EI&O and DCS initiatives
• Matrix management of people, processes and resources including third parties – including resolving conflict to move forward to resolution
• Responsible for Security & compliance of servers and storage infra of entire enterprise.
• Direct oversight of Infrastructure (Datacenter and Cloud) Operations during India hours, including driving and directing incident bridges, pushing issues to root cause analysis and providing executive updates to the highest levels of Fidelity
• Build strategic partnerships across technology and business partners, including engaging on roadmap and prioritization decisions, especially with other India leaders

The Skills that are Key to this role - Technical / Behavioral

• Infrastructure Expertise: Experience managing complex and large distributed compute, storage and cloud infrastructure in a hybrid environment.
• Engineering Expertise: Experience driving best practices and standards across system and software engineering.
• Communication: Strong story-telling skills that drive program messaging and influence decisions and action. Ability to articulate solutions to Senior Executives and leadership. Ability to be highly organized, very responsive, and committed to quality and high standards.
• Collaboration: Ability to navigate sophisticated, interpersonal relationships and build partnerships across the firm at all levels. The ability to collaborate with a variety of individuals and groups across Fidelity in a constructive manner to accomplish tasks and drive forward key business initiatives.
• People Management: Senior level experience managing, leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and high performing teams.
• Leadership: Strong management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills are a must; providing technical leadership and hands on day-to-day solutions to squads.
• Influencing Skills: Employs collaborative approach to gain consensus and support for the needs of the work. Understands organizational dynamics and adapts proposals to efficiently navigate constraints. Ability to learn quickly, be flexible, adapt and strive to excel in a fast paced, changing environment.

The Skills that are good to have for this role.

• Knowledge of AWS, Azure Cloud Platforms
• Experience working in global partnerships
• Experience in working on different distributed operating and storage systems.
• Experience in building and managing virtualization and private cloud infrastructure

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

Fidelity EI&O (Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations) India started operations in 2004 to help our partners take advantage of the global capability in providing operational support. EI&O India plays a key role in global workforce augmentation and supports all the EI&O verticals, including 24X7 operations in some areas. The Distributed Compute and Storage (DCS) team is dedicated to architecting, implementing, and optimizing cutting-edge compute, storage and cloud solutions. Our mission is to provide secure, highly available and performant distributed compute and storage solutions in support of Fidelity's enterprise business application and database needs.

The Expertise We’re Looking For

• University Degree
• 20 years of Experience in similar operational role required with technical aptitude
• Strong people management experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people and teams
• Experience creating business and technical Executive Summaries in a complex technology-based ecosystem
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of both development and operations, including software and system engineering, infrastructure management, system administration, and DevOps.
• Good technical background with the ability to discuss architecture, hardware, and software concepts
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies to support day-to-day operations
• Ability to adapt to change and prioritize accordingly
• Customer orientated personality exhibiting professionalism and enthusiasm
• Analytical & detail orientated thought process with the ability to take methodical approach to activities
• Demonstrate ability to form trusted working relationships with business unit stakeholders through collaboration and enhanced effective communications.
• Global business experience across all time zones in preferred

Location: Bangalore

Shift timings: 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM