Head of Architecture, Digital Assets

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Head of Architecture at Fidelity Digital Assets leading architectural vision across trading and wallet platforms. Focusing on secure, scalable solutions with a high-performing team of architects.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeDurham • Massachusetts, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $140,000 - $285,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

define and lead the architectural vision across custody, trading, and wallet platforms
lead a high-performing team of architects and partner closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
align architectural direction with product strategy and deliver a resilient, secure, and scalable digital assets platform
set standards and guide key design decisions
operate as a true player-coach, diving into complex technical challenges, unblocking critical paths, and helping resolve architectural and system design issues
bring a strong sense of ownership for resiliency, availability, and customer impact, stepping in during critical production issues
mentor and develop a team of high-skilled architects while fostering a culture of engineering excellence, technical rigor, and pragmatic innovation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
15 plus years of software development experience, including significant architecture and leadership responsibility
Proven track record defining and delivering secure, resilient, scalable production software platforms at significant user and transaction scale
Deep software architecture expertise across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, APIs, data, security, reliability, and operational excellence
Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, mentor, and retain top technical talent
Deep technical familiarity and production experience with at least one public blockchain protocol
Strong understanding of cryptocurrencies, public blockchain protocols, and the evolving digital assets ecosystem, with a demonstrated ability to stay current through protocol research, developer communities, social channels, and broader industry discourse
Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-region systems with strong resiliency and operational continuity in mission-critical 24x7 environments
Understanding of architectures supporting low-latency trading systems
Strong ownership mindset and experience providing technical leadership during critical production events or high-severity incidents
Ability to influence engineering leaders and teams through technical credibility, sound judgment, clear communication, and partnership
Experience collaborating with senior leadership, product, engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders
Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
market-leading retirement
generous paid time off and parental leave
charitable giving employee match program
educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career

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Hard Skills & Tools

software developmentsoftware architecturedistributed systemscloud-native platformsAPIsdata securityreliabilityoperational excellenceblockchain protocollow-latency trading systems

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringownership mindsetanalytical skillscommunication skillsorganizational skillsdecision-making skillsinfluencingcollaborationproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science