Director of Architecture – Financial Platforms
Fidelity Investments
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Merrimack • Kentucky • New Hampshire • United States
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About the role
- Drive the evolution of our financial operations ecosystem, focusing on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and platform resilience.
- Champion architectural innovation, promote standardization, and deliver scalable technology solutions.
- Shape the product roadmap in alignment with business priorities and partner close with engineering and business teams to design, implement, and deploy end-to-end solutions.
- Contribute to enterprise strategy and mentor others in best practices.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience architecting distributed systems and applications.
- 3+ years of experience with Azure and/or AWS; certification is a plus.
- Deep knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, and security, with authoritative expertise in one or more of these areas.
- Working knowledge of technical architecture pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
- Background with multiple enterprise technologies.
- Understanding of mainframe technology is desired but not required.
- Experience with mainframe modernization is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze business direction and challenges, assess long-term vision, and develop strategic technical solutions.
- Ability to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
- Experience collaborating with peer architects to identify opportunities for process refactoring, customer experience improvements, and capability rationalization.
- Authoritative understanding of Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams.
- Strong presentation, documentation, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to influence both technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Experience networking across business units and externally to promote reusable processes, patterns, and practices.
- Experience in the financial services or benefits administration industry is a plus.
- Willingness to experiment, innovate, and continuously learn and grow.
Benefits
- 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
architecting distributed systemsAPIsmicroservices architectureinfrastructuredata architecturesecurityAgile development methodologiesDevOps practicesmainframe modernizationenterprise technologies
Soft Skills
mentoringanalyzing business directiondeveloping strategic technical solutionscollaborating across teamsstrong presentation skillsdocumentation skillscommunication skillsinfluencing stakeholdersnetworkingwillingness to innovate
Certifications
AWS certificationAzure certification