Vice President, Architecture

Fidelity Investments•Smithfield, RI

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an accomplished Vice President of Cybersecurity Architecture with deep expertise in fraud detection, prevention, and mitigation to join the Fidelity Institutional Technology (FIT) Security Architecture team. As VP of Security Architecture, you will design and implement advanced security architectures that safeguard our digital ecosystem, protect customer trust, and reduce operational fraud risk for our FI clients. You will be a partner with enterprise security, data, engineering, product, and risk teams to architect end-to-end security solutions that identify, prevent, and respond to fraud at scale. You will join a team of security architects who evaluate and recommend solutions that strengthen our security posture. You will be responsible for guidance to business and technology teams in delivering secure architecture, design, and reusable capabilities across multiple product areas. You will also collaborate with key enterprise partners to adopt emerging standards and technologies for Identity, Authentication, Authorization and Fraud mitigation. The Role You will help formulate and drive the tactical and strategic direction of FIT security architecture for critical, large-scale systems across all facets of Fidelity Institutional. You will collaborate with fraud analytics teams to integrate real-time fraud detection and prevention mechanisms into system design. You will partner with enterprise stakeholders to apply emerging AI technologies in detecting and preventing fraudulent activities within Fidelity Investments’ institutional interactions. You will develop and maintain fraud detection and prevention architectures, reference models, and security patterns. You will design endtoend solutions for identity protection, account security, fraud analytics, and transaction integrity. Define and enforce security architecture standards and best practices, including cloud security design, Zero Trust principles, defense-in-depth, least-privilege access, and secure API frameworks. Establish comprehensive frameworks for risk assessment, threat modeling, and compliance audits to mitigate fraud and cyber threats across Fidelity Institutional Technology. Develop strategies for data protection, including encryption, tokenization, and secure lifecycle management for sensitive financial information. You will make authoritative decisions on technical issues, standards, and strategies. You will provide expertise to project teams on secure design and integration across the technology stack (security, cloud, DevSecOps, etc.). You will anticipate and implement major industry system/software security trends within the Fidelity environment. You will lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) to assess technical and business benefits. You will participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise security architecture standards across all platforms, ensuring alignment with financial regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC, FINRA, PCI DSS).

Requirements

15+ years of experience in security architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions across multiple platforms.
Expertise in application security implementations and best practices; certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Fraud Detection and Analytics Certificate (ACAMS) are strong positives.
Expertise and experience in Fraud detection, prevention and mitigation strategies
Deep knowledge of IAM, cryptography/key management, access controls, and security protocols (e.g., MFA, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, API security).
Experience with DevSecOps, AWS security, and secure code development.
Proven ability to establish strategy and implement cloud enterprise solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
Strong background in tool selection and vendor management.
Financial industry experience a plus
Thought leadership in technology selection and security strategy formation.
Ability to guide secure design across all layers of the application stack.
Excellent problem-solving skills and mastery of security principles.
Strong presentation, documentation, communication, and influencing skills to articulate technology direction in a business context.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Help formulate and drive the tactical and strategic direction of FIT security architecture for critical, large-scale systems across all facets of Fidelity Institutional.
Collaborate with fraud analytics teams to integrate real-time fraud detection and prevention mechanisms into system design.
Partner with enterprise stakeholders to apply emerging AI technologies in detecting and preventing fraudulent activities within Fidelity Investments’ institutional interactions.
Develop and maintain fraud detection and prevention architectures, reference models, and security patterns.
Design endtoend solutions for identity protection, account security, fraud analytics, and transaction integrity.
Define and enforce security architecture standards and best practices, including cloud security design, Zero Trust principles, defense-in-depth, least-privilege access, and secure API frameworks.
Establish comprehensive frameworks for risk assessment, threat modeling, and compliance audits to mitigate fraud and cyber threats across Fidelity Institutional Technology.
Develop strategies for data protection, including encryption, tokenization, and secure lifecycle management for sensitive financial information.
Make authoritative decisions on technical issues, standards, and strategies.
Provide expertise to project teams on secure design and integration across the technology stack (security, cloud, DevSecOps, etc.).
Anticipate and implement major industry system/software security trends within the Fidelity environment.
Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) to assess technical and business benefits.
Participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise security architecture standards across all platforms, ensuring alignment with financial regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC, FINRA, PCI DSS).