Director, Architecture

Fidelity•Durham, NC

About The Position

The Solution Architect will take a hands-on role in driving 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 efforts. 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 and open communication to support 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 laws and regulations that may restrict hiring or association with individuals with certain criminal histories.

Requirements

10 or more years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions across multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.
Demonstrated and extensive knowledge of APIs, user interfaces, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.
Software development experience with client-side technologies such as Angular or React and JavaScript or TypeScript.
Strong experience with Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE, the 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, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence.
Experience with cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using AWS, Azure, or both.
Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and data platforms, and the ability to assess and integrate emerging capabilities.
Experience managing third-party vendor solutions and ensuring secure, compliant, and high-performing integrations.

Nice To Haves

Cloud certification.

Responsibilities

Drive and own end-to-end solution architecture design, 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, resolve issues, develop wellness plans, and support product roadmaps.
Analyze business direction and long-term vision, and quantify risks and benefits when developing strategic technical solutions.
Collaborate with product owners and teams on technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
Build and maintain effective relationships with senior leadership, product owners, architects, and technical leads for products and applications.
Partner with peer architects to identify opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience, and rationalize capabilities.
Manage third-party vendor solutions and ensure secure, compliant, high-performing integrations.
Build and deploy applications using cloud technologies and practices.
Assess and integrate emerging AI/ML capabilities.