Vice President, Head of Storage Technology

Fidelity Investments•Durham, NC

About The Position

The VP, Head of Storage Technology is responsible for engineering, product management, and operational availability of critical storage systems across Fidelity. These systems support applications and databases running in on-premises and private cloud environments and enable interoperability with public cloud applications. The role leads enterprise-wide storage strategy, with responsibility for hybrid cloud storage that balances performance, cost, and compliance across on-premises environments and public cloud providers. It also guides the evolution of block, file, and object storage capabilities to ensure data mobility and high availability.

Requirements

10–15+ years of IT experience across a broad range of technologies, including 5–10 years of specific experience with server and storage infrastructure technologies.
Expertise in object (S3/Blob/CAS), block (NVMe/SAN/iSCSI), and file (NFS/SMB/Parallel) storage protocols and backup/recovery products, including CDP, snapshots, cloud-native, and traditional on-premises solutions.
Proven experience with large-scale data migrations from legacy hardware to software-defined storage in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.
Strong understanding of network storage performance, including latency, throughput, and bandwidth management.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible in a storage context.
Ability to manage stakeholder expectations in high-stakes infrastructure projects.
Crisis and problem management skills and experience supporting enterprise mission-critical environments.
Good interpersonal and team skills across organizational levels and multiple organizations.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the roadmap for integrating on-premises enterprise storage arrays with software-defined and cloud-native storage services.
Oversee technology for block, file, object, and backup/recovery products, including software-defined storage solutions, in an enterprise environment.
Implement automated data-tiering policies to optimize costs while maintaining performance.
Architect low-latency block storage for mission-critical databases and scalable file systems for distributed workloads.
Support operational excellence through crisis and problem management in enterprise mission-critical environments.
Develop a comprehensive model to improve, monitor, and control storage-related efficiency and consumption.
Oversee a global team of 50+ storage and software engineers.
Interact directly with technology business partners, manage expectations, and work effectively across organizational levels and multiple organizations.
Ensure data protection, encryption, and regulatory adherence across hybrid environments.
Lead large-scale data migrations from legacy hardware to software-defined storage in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments.