Director, Architecture

Job Description:

The Role

We build incredible products in the Workplace Investing business at Fidelity Investments to help people plan for financial success. One of those ways is by enabling folks to invest in Employee Stock Purchase Plans. We are investing heavily in building automations, simplifying processes, and modernizing platforms to offer seamless experiences to our customers in making such critical life decisions. We have multiple product teams building to simplify experiences, integrate with enterprise platforms and streamline access to data. We are looking for a Rockstar Architect to help our Employee Stock Purchase Plan product area take their solutions to the next level. You will provide leadership through structured discovery and problem analysis, data-driven decision making, adoption of standards, collaboration with key partners and evaluations and recommendations of solutions.

The Expertise You Have

• Proven experience in partnering with business leaders to shape product strategy, roadmap, and implementation approaches.
• Proven track record in analyzing business direction and problems, understanding long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
• Proven track record in producing technical architecture and related artifacts as well as building consensus with peer architects and technology partners to support implementation.
• Proven track record in delivering integration architectures which connect multiple systems to deliver business outcomes, especially with enterprise partners.
• Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, security and new technologies with clear expertise in one or more of these areas.
• Solid understanding in all aspects of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
• Collaborating with peer & enterprise architects to align on standards, strategy, and opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
• Ability to work both independently and with different levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Experience in Azure, Integration Patterns (APIs, Messaging, Events) and OAuth
• Experience in building recordkeeping platforms or other such sophisticated architectures

The Skills You Bring

• Comfortable partnering with business leaders to formulate strategies and roadmap.
• Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners, senior leaders as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and solutions to agile teams.
• Critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting to drive resolution to technical issues.
• Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices with outstanding results.
• Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or Equity Compensation experience is a plus.

The Value You Deliver

• Enabling the delivery of market leading products and capabilities.
• Representing WI and the needs of this product area with vendors, external partners, enterprise technology and other business units.
• Providing architecture solutions for multiple agile teams. Collaborate with product and engineering leads and senior management on product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision.

The Team

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

The Employee Stock Purchase Plan Product Area is on a mission to build the best products that help our customers invest in their financial success. From planning and road-mapping to delivery and execution, this opportunity will give the architect exposure to the full lifecycle of our client and customer experiences. You will closely work with the product leadership team and technical teams to provide technical leadership and architecture direction for this valued product area.

As part of the WI Technology Architecture team, you will enable this business transformation by providing strategic direction, transitional and future state architecture and inform the right set of technologies. 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.

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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.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.