Job Description:
Director of Architecture, DC Product Platforms
We’re looking for a strategic and collaborative leader to partner with our business and engineering teams to evolve and improve our recordkeeping ecosystem – ensuring regulatory compliance, risk mitigation and platform stability. In this leadership role you will champion innovation in Software Architecture, drive standardization, and deliver technology solutions. You will help craft the product roadmap in alignment with business goals. Additionally, you will collaborate with other Architects to formulate strategy and lead all aspects of the design, implement and deployment of end-to-end solutions.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
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10+ years of industry experience in architecting distributed systems and applications.
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3+ years of Azure and/or AWS experience. AWS and/or Azure certification also a plus
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Demonstrable ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
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Authoritative knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies with clear expertise in one or more of these areas.
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Working knowledge of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
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Authoritative understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
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Background with multiple enterprise technologies
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Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
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Ability to work both independently and with various levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
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Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
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Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
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Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices.
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Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions.
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Understanding of mainframe technology desired but not needed
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Mainframe modernization experience desirable.
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Financial industry / Benefit administration 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. As an Architect within Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI), you are responsible for establishing the strategic direction, setting standards and choosing technologies across WI. You will work closely with business partners and technology teams to understand business objectives and help define appropriate architecture direction for them. By working closely with Solution Architects and Agile teams, you will assess and ensure how proposed solutions to specific initiatives align with broader WI goals and strategies.
Certifications:
Category:Information Technology
Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
Top Skills
Fidelity Investments Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
245 Summer St, Boston, MA, United States, 02210
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