Director, Architecture

Fidelity • Merrimack, NH

18h

About The Position

The Solution Architect will play a hands-on role driving the overall technical architecture and owning end-to-end solution architecture within Fidelity Institutional Technology for the Fidelity Institutional Wealth Advisory space. The role partners with business and product sponsors, technology teams, and peer architects to advance digital modernization. Its focus is enabling and accelerating squad delivery by creating highly reliable, scalable solutions that deliver business value.

Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity’s Institutional businesses. The FIT Architecture group is a central architecture practice that leads IT strategy and architecture transformation, IT oversight and governance, and collaboration to facilitate better decision-making.

Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Current onsite expectations vary by role and location and may evolve as the rollout continues; the transition does not apply to fully remote roles. Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. The business is subject to securities, investment, retirement-related, and other regulatory requirements that may restrict hiring or association with individuals with certain criminal histories.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions across multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for technology teams.
• Demonstrated and extensive knowledge of APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.
• Demonstrated software development experience with client-side technologies such as Angular or React, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Strong experience with Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, and web application technologies.
• Ability to work independently and with technical and non-technical team members at all organizational levels.
• Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.
• Strong presentation skills and written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence.
• Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using AWS, Azure, or both.

Nice To Haves

• Cloud certification.
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and data platforms, and the ability to assess and integrate emerging capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive the end-to-end solution architecture design and ownership, and articulate designs to product owners, technology teams, and architecture leadership.
• Provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for technology teams.
• Engage with multiple squads to deliver architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, wellness plans, and product roadmaps.
• Analyze business direction and long-term vision, and assess risks and benefits of strategic technical solutions.
• Collaborate with product owners and technology teams on technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with senior leadership, product owners, architects, and technical leads.
• Partner with peer architects to identify opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience, or rationalize capabilities.
• Manage third-party vendor solutions and ensure integrations are secure, compliant, and high-performing.
• Build and deploy applications using cloud technologies and practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed