Director, Architecture

Job Description:

PI Solutions Architect

At Fidelity Personal Investing (PI), we are seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to drive end-to-end solution architecture for the One Stop Life Shop Domain. In this role, you will work closely with Tribes/Squads across Personal Investing and Workplace Investing (WI) to architect solutions that meet business priorities and initiatives. The One Stop Life Shop Domain focuses on customers for life. In that respect, it’s initiatives are focused on driving and deepening lifetime relationships with our Workplace Investing customers. The challenges include becoming more relevant in our customers lives by building inclusive experiences that enhance existing offerings, developing new offerings that support a broader set of needs, and designing for women.

You will define architecture solution in alignment to cloud-first, mainframe modernization and digital strategy initiatives. You will work collaboratively across multiple domains/tribes, chapters and CoEs to help cultivate innovation, drive standardization and deliver on new technology patterns across the stack. You will drive solutions and roadmap evolution in conjunction with business goals. You will proactively manage technical debt and provide guidance to Tribes/Squads in alignment to PI tech debt priorities. You will provide leadership in computing services, adoption of platforms and consolidation across Fidelity PI Technology initiatives. Some of the initiatives could span across other business units requiring end-to-end solution in collaboration with Enterprise Cloud Computing, Personal Investing and Workplace Investing.

This role will be a very hands-on role driving the overall technical and solutions architecture. You will be responsible for the all aspects of the application architecture and security. You will work closely with the Data Engineering chapter to best align with the Data Strategy and Architecture. You will collaboratively work across other Tribe/Squads across multiple business units influencing to drive digital modernization efforts.

As a Solutions Architect, you will deeply familiarize with the Capabilities and Roadmaps from Platform Engineering team, PI Platform Priorities, and PI Technology Pillars slide and apply concretely to domain level initiatives to accelerate the delivery into Production of these Platforms. You will facilitate coherent engagement, drive, manage, & monitor comprehensive Architectural Strategy adoption. This perspective includes, but is not limited to, Customer Journeys, Domain Modeling, Business Capabilities, Scenarios, Use Cases, Data Architecture, API Strategy, Cloud Adoption, Assurance Automation, Deployment, Operations, Monitoring, etc., namely our revised definition of end-to-end Architecture.

The Expertise we’re looking for

• Minimum 10+ years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, software development. Experienced in engineering web and mobile applications with some combination of the following:
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture and migration skills
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud Architecture designs.
• Experience in AWS services technologies and practices, building applications using services such as AWS EC2, ECS, Lambda, EMR, Cloud Formation.
• A well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous integration & delivery CI/CD practices.
• Experience with build containers-based systems: Architecture, implementation and managing orchestration platform such as: Kubernetes, Docker, ECS.
• Deep understanding of well architected framework implementation in Enterprise: Operation Excellent, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency and Cost optimization.
• Strong understanding of Domain Driven Design and the ability to apply it to new domains.
• Experience in building Event Driven systems and Architecture
• Proven experience developing systems based on patterns of microservices
• Proven experience is developing high-performing, scalable, and elegant web and mobile user interfaces
• Experience building highly scalable architecture to support Omnichannel experience platform
• Participate with a cross department-functional team to establish cloud architecture patterns & governance.

The Value You Deliver

• Contribute to the development of digital architecture blueprint by monitoring industry and technology trends and directions.
• Responsible for the Application architecture and design required to align with Cloud Strategy.
• Ensure technology decisions comply with architecture standards and strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
• Regularly provide guidance and mentoring to enable other team members to meet/exceed expectations.
• Demonstrates comprehensive decision-making authority over technical issues, project policies, standards, and strategies
• Ability to drive solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and architecture leadership.
• Engagement with Project Teams to deliver Architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, wellness plans, and product roadmaps with incremental MVP.
• Ability to work both independently and with all levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Proven expert understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
• Collaborate to democratize mobile enablement across all of PI.

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Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.

At Fidelity, you'll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples' lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2023. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working”. Most associates will have a hybrid schedule with a requirement to work onsite at a Fidelity work location for at least one week, 5 consecutive days, every four weeks. These requirements are subject to change.

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Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.