Director, Architecture

3 weeks ago


Durham, United States Fidelity TalentSource LLC Full time



Job Description:



The Role

The Director, Architecture Financial Operations Platforms will work hand in hand with business leadership and our engineering partners to deliver the next generation platforms for financial operations including payments (check, EFT and digital), taxation, pricing, trading, money movement and reconciliation. You will be hands on working on the creation of the next generation software platforms at one of the largest high volume financial benefit companies in the world. You will work closely with business sponsors, project managers, engineers and architects designing, implementing, testing, and deploying end to end technology solutions.

As a leader within the architecture team, you will work with architecture and application teams to help champion innovation, drive standardization, and deliver modern technology patterns across the stack for our customers' use. You will contribute to the product roadmap evolution in conjunction with business unit product goals and provide leadership in computing services, adoption of platforms and consolidation across our team's initiatives.
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The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Education BS or MS required.
  • 10+ years of industry experience in architecting distributed systems and applications.
  • 3+ years of AWS and/or Azure experience. AWS and/or Azure certification also a plus
  • Demonstrable ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
  • Work closely with Product/Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
  • Background with multiple enterprise technologies
  • Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies with clear expertise in one or more of these areas.
  • Working knowledge in all aspects of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
  • Authoritative understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
  • Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
  • Ability to work both independently and with various levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
  • Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership and solutions to agile teams.
  • Critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting to drive resolution to technical issues.
  • Manages conceptual and abstract problem domains.
  • Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
  • Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices with world class results.
  • Passion for staying current on technology trends to pivot direction and drive results.
  • Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions.
  • Financial industry experience is a plus.
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The Team

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) provides benefits to Fidelity customers, employers, and their employees, in a growing set of areas - Defined Contribution, Benefits Outsourcing & Payroll, Investment Products & Consulting and Defined Benefits.

As part of the Enterprise Architecture team supporting WI, you will be a key player in helping move us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business. As an Architect, you are responsible for establishing the strategic direction, setting standards, and choosing technologies across WI and enterprise. You will work closely with business partners and technology teams to understand business objectives and help define appropriate architecture direction for them. By working closely with Solution Architects and Agile teams, you will assess and ensure how proposed solutions to specific initiatives align with broader WI and/or enterprise goals and strategies.





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Company Overview

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.

Join Us

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 top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity\u2014we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

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.



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