VP, Security Architecture

Fidelity Investments•Merrimack, NH

About The Position

Fidelity Workplace Investment is seeking a Vice President of Security Architecture to define and drive secure, end-to-end technology strategies that protect customer interactions across workplace products and platforms. This role partners closely with architecture governance, product, engineering, and cybersecurity teams to enhance the security posture, address emerging threats, and deliver scalable, standards-based solutions across identity, authentication, authorization, fraud mitigation, and data privacy. The position provides technical vision and leadership for complex, multi-year initiatives, influencing product roadmaps, guiding the secure integration of APIs and digital experiences, and aligning with enterprise security blueprints. It requires deep expertise in cloud, web, APIs, and modern architecture, along with strong strategic thinking and cross-functional collaboration to advance Fidelity’s cybersecurity innovation, reduce complexity, and strengthen customer protection.

Requirements

Deep expertise in application security frameworks, secure development practices, and risk mitigation techniques.
Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), including SSO, federation, authentication, authorization, and identity provisioning.
Hands-on experience with security protocols and technologies such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, cryptography, key management, PKI, and secrets management.
Solid understanding of network and edge security (e.g., firewalls, WAF, DMZ architectures).
Proven track record of designing and architecting secure, scalable, and low-latency systems across modern architectures (APIs, event-driven, data, and distributed systems).
Experience in securing cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on AWS and/or Azure and their ecosystems (compute, containers, databases, analytics, and security services).
Experience securely integrating customer-facing products with value-added third-party solutions.
Expertise in application and API development using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and integration patterns (APIs, streaming, messaging, file exchange).
Ability to translate business objectives into cohesive technical and security architectures aligned with enterprise standards.
Proven leadership in defining and evolving security strategies while influencing cross-functional teams and driving enterprise adoption.
Strong foundation in software engineering and continuous delivery practices.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Minimum of 10 years of industry experience in architecting distributed systems and applications.

Nice To Haves

Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and drive secure, end-to-end technology strategies that protect customer interactions across workplace products and platforms.
Enhance the security posture, address emerging threats, and deliver scalable, standards-based solutions across identity, authentication, authorization, fraud mitigation, and data privacy.
Provide technical vision and leadership for complex, multi-year initiatives.
Influence product roadmaps.
Guide the secure integration of APIs and digital experiences.
Align with enterprise security blueprints.
Advance Fidelity’s cybersecurity innovation, reduce complexity, and strengthen customer protection.
Build proofs of concept and deliver pragmatic, end-to-end solutions with clear adoption and migration plans.
Define and evolve security strategies.
Influence cross-functional teams and drive enterprise adoption.
Lead security architecture efforts.
Guide engineering teams.
Ensure the implementation of security best practices.