Director, Architecture

Job Description

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The Role

In this architect role within Fidelity’s Workplace Investing Technology Group, you will drive technology strategy and architecture aligned with business outcomes. The candidate will provide technical leadership to agile teams through collaboration with product teams through architecture designs, adoption of standards, evaluations, and recommendations of solutions. Your architectural direction will help us modernize and innovate our Defined Contributions non-qualified plan recordkeeping system.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Education – BS or MS required.
• 10+ years of industry experience in architecting distributed systems and applications.
• 3+ years of AWS and/or Azure experience. AWS and/or Azure certification also a plus
• Demonstrable ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
• Work closely with Product/Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
• Background with multiple enterprise technologies
• Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies with clear expertise in one or more of these areas.
• Working knowledge in all aspects of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
• Authoritative understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
• Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
• Ability to work both independently and with various levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and solutions to agile teams.
• Critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting to drive resolution to technical issues.
• Manages conceptual and abstract problem domains.
• Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
• Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices with world class results.
• Passion for staying current on technology trends to pivot direction and drive results.
• Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions
• Financial industry experience is a plus

The Team

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) provides benefits to Fidelity customers, employers and their employees, in a growing set of areas – Defined Contribution, Benefits Outsourcing & Payroll, Investment Products & Consulting and Defined Benefits.

As part of the WI Technology Architecture team you will be key player in helping move us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business through API’s. As an Architect within Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI), you will create the strategic direction for API & gateway, setting standards by building common framework and choosing technologies across WI. You will collaborate with business and technology teams to understand business objectives and help define appropriate architecture direction for them and ensure proposed solutions align with broader WI goals and strategies.

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.