Vice President Architect – Brokerage Platform

Job Description :

Job Description : Vice President Architect – Brokerage Platform

Role

We are seeking a Vice President Architect to design and implement the core infrastructure of our brokerage platform . This role requires a deep understanding of capital markets, low-latency distributed systems, and scalable architectures .

You will be responsible for defining and delivering the platform’s foundational components that ensure deterministic, fault tolerance, and low-latency execution . Your work will directly impact fairness, reliability, and performance in trading.

Responsibilities

• Understand and enhance the technical architecture for the brokerage platform’s trading core.
• Establish patterns for real-time event sourcing
• Partner with product and business leaders to align architecture with trading workflows.
• Deliver sub-millisecond, high-throughput event processing across a distributed environment.
• Apply advanced concurrency, and NUMA-aware designs.
• Benchmark and optimize performance at CPU, memory, and network layers.
• Build replay / audit mechanisms to meet regulatory and operational requirements.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor engineers and champion best practices for deterministic, event-driven trading systems.

Qualifications

The Team

You will be part of the Brokerage Modernization Analytics Team. Our goal is to understand the existing Brokerage Platform and develop a long-term vision for the future of the platform. We are energized and motivated performing a role that allows us to contribute daily to protecting Fidelity’s customers and reputation.

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Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and / or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.