Director Architecture

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Director Architecture The Role In this architect role within Fidelity’s Workplace Investing Technology Group, you will drive technology strategy and architecture aligned with business outcomes. The candidate will provide technical leadership to agile teams through collaboration with product teams through architecture designs, adoption of standards, evaluations, and recommendations of solutions. Your architectural direction will help us modernize and innovate our recordkeeping systems providing service to over 20 million customers! The Team Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) provides benefits to Fidelity customers, employers and their employees, in a growing set of areas – Defined Contribution, Benefits Outsourcing & Payroll, Investment Products & Consulting and Defined Benefits. As part of the WI Technology Architecture team you will be key player in helping move us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business. As an Architect within Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI), you will create the strategic direction, setting standards and choosing technologies across WI. You will collaborate with business and technology teams to understand business objectives and help define appropriate architecture direction for them and ensure proposed solutions align with broader WI goals and strategies.

Requirements

Education – BS or MS required.
AWS and/or Azure experience, certification also a plus
Shown ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
Financial services experience a plus.
Experience with presenting to Architecture Review Boards (ARB) and the development of architecture roadmaps.
Experience with enterprise architecture and/ or TOGAF certification is preferred.
Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, data architecture, 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 product partners and seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
Critical problem solving and sophisticated troubleshooting to drive resolution to technical issues.
Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills with varying audiences
Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions