Posted 18 June, 2026
Team Lead - Cybersecurity
Fidelity Investments
Galway, Galway, Ireland
Full Time
Reference: 423902131
Job Description:
The Role
As a Team Lead for ECS Application Security, you'll combine deep engineering expertise with a passion for developing high-performing teams. In our agile, cloud-first environment, you'll set technical standards, influence strategic decisions, and deliver enterprise-scale application security solutions that keep the firm cybersafe. You'll mentor engineers and analysts to design and implement secure, scalable systems that enable innovation while protecting our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at scale at Fidelity.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Growth
Delivery & Execution
Engineering Excellence
Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management
Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership
Required Skills & Experience
Category:
Information Technology
The Role
As a Team Lead for ECS Application Security, you'll combine deep engineering expertise with a passion for developing high-performing teams. In our agile, cloud-first environment, you'll set technical standards, influence strategic decisions, and deliver enterprise-scale application security solutions that keep the firm cybersafe. You'll mentor engineers and analysts to design and implement secure, scalable systems that enable innovation while protecting our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at scale at Fidelity.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Growth
- Define and drive team strategy, roadmap, and vision.
- Mentor and develop engineers and analysts, fostering technical growth and professional development.
- Manage workforce planning and performance goals aligned to business priorities.
Delivery & Execution
- Excellent organization and planning skills with ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
- Responsible for defining and owning roadmap and vision.
- Accountable for the delivery of the roadmap, clearly defining and articulating the evolutionary steps/milestones to achieve the overall vision.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure impactful, customer-focused outcomes.
Engineering Excellence
- Drive Secure-SDLC adoption, including secrets management, SAST, SCA, and DAST where appropriate.
- Improve automation, test coverage, release velocity, and production health.
- Own and enforce technical standards, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Management
- Partner with leadership across engineering, business, and operations teams to align on security priorities.
- Lead data-driven decisions on trade-offs, capacity planning, and risk.
- Communicate clearly, deliver updates, rationales, blockers, and outcomes to peers and senior leaders.
Continuous Improvement & Thought Leadership
- Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and frameworks.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement through metrics, retrospectives, and education.
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years in IT and 5+ years in people & technical leadership.
- Proven track record delivering scalable, cloud-native software with Secure-SDLC practices.
- Strong foundation in systems architecture, SDLC, Agile, AWS, and DevSecOps.
- Data-driven mindset, experience driving strategic decisions through analytics and metrics.
- Excellent communicator and influencer; skilled in stakeholder and cross-functional collaboration.
- Passion for coaching, able to elevate junior and senior team members alike.
- Practical experience setting strategic vision and delivering on roadmaps.
- Expertise in application security tools a plus e.g. secrets scanning, SAST, DAST, SCA.
Category:
Information Technology
