Director, Architecture
About The Position
The Director, Architecture leads and manages application development for large-scale initiatives spanning multiple platforms. The role oversees development and testing tool and methodology selection, test-plan review and validation, and quality-assurance readiness for software deliverables across multiple efforts. It develops comprehensive documentation and full life-cycle plans for complex, multi-platform initiatives; performs independent technical and functional analysis; and leads the creation of original technical solutions. The role also participates in architecture design teams and defines and implements application-level architecture across complex projects, components, and subsystems. The position provides strategic technical leadership across the business unit and organization. It partners with business units and senior management, oversees complex initiatives and multiple teams, advises on risks and architectural direction, coordinates multi-project schedules and resources, and supports team members' technical and career development. Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased regional and role-based rollout; onsite expectations currently vary and may evolve. The posting does not specify the onsite requirement for this particular role.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent), and six years of experience as a Director, Architecture or in a closely related occupation designing and developing scalable and resilient architectures in a financial services environment using AWS and Azure; alternatively, a master’s degree in one of the listed or closely related fields (or foreign education equivalent) and four years of such experience.
- Demonstrated expertise architecting and engineering enterprise-level, multi-cloud applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to support scalable deployment and management of cloud-native microservices across AWS and Azure.
- Demonstrated expertise architecting highly available and scalable applications using REST web services, Java or Python, Oracle and DynamoDB, and AWS cloud-native technologies including EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateways, and ALBs.
- Demonstrated expertise creating and maintaining multi-year product technology road maps using Visio and PowerPoint to drive senior management alignment on enterprise-wide technical strategy.
- Demonstrated expertise deploying 12-factor, containerized RESTful APIs to internal and external cloud environments using Spring Framework, RESTful Webservices, containers, and Docker.
Responsibilities
- Serves as a primary liaison with business units to resolve project and technology issues.
- Oversees delivery of complex initiatives to ensure project goals are met on time and within budget.
- Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for multiple concurrent projects.
- Plans and coordinates schedules and assignments across complex, multi-project portfolios.
- Provides technology solutions to day-to-day issues and delivers technical evaluation estimates for technology initiatives.
- Advises senior management on technical strategy and architectural direction.
- Mentors junior team members through ongoing technical guidance and coaching.
- Participates in high-level, cross-functional architecture design teams.
- Identifies and consults with internal and external technical resources to produce cross-company strategic designs.
- Consults on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.
- Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.
- Works across groups to identify opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives.
- Provides guidance, training, and coaching to other team members for performance and career development.
- Identifies and plans for future resource needs.
- Determines technical approaches at a strategic level for the business unit.
- Leads selection and implementation of development and testing tools and methodologies and manages review and validation of test plans.
- Manages quality-assurance readiness of software deliverables across multiple efforts.
- Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications and subsystems and establishes full project life-cycle plans for complex, multi-platform initiatives.
- Performs independent technical and functional analysis supporting divisional initiatives and leads development of original technical solutions.
- Defines and implements application-level architecture across complex projects, components, and subsystems.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
