Job Description

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

The Role

We build incredible products in the Workplace investing business that help people plan for financial success and ultimately their retirement. Fidelity’s Architecture and Engineering team is looking for a proven architecture leader for the Workplace Platforms supporting the Workplace Investing business. These are mature and critical platforms, that are constantly being enhanced and modernized thus require strong architecture strategies that align to the business and enterprise technology roadmaps. We are looking for a senior Architect to lead a team of talented architects supporting these product and engineering teams. You will provide leadership, coaching and guidance to enable this team to closely partner with product and engineering on roadmaps, provide end-to-end architecture and support implementation.

The Expertise You Have

• Demonstrable experience in leading technical leaders, especially architects.
• Demonstrable experience in partnering with product and engineering leaders to shape strategy, roadmap, and implementation approaches.
• Experience practicing Business Architecture including aligning Business and Technology strategies, Customer Journeys, Capability Modeling and Roadmaps
• Demonstrable understanding in all aspects of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
• Collaborating with peer and enterprise architects to align on standards, strategy, and opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
• Ability to work both independently and with different levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Experience in Modern Architecture and Cloud Technologies to build sophisticated architecture
• Experience in financial services and/or benefits management is a plus.

The Skills You Bring

• Leadership Strong management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills are a must; providing technical leadership across the Emerging and Advice domain
• People Management Senior level experience managing, leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people across different geographical locations
• Communication Strong storytelling skills that drive program messaging and influence decisions and action. Ability to articulate architecture solutions to Senior Executives and architecture leadership
• Collaboration Ability to navigate sophisticated, interpersonal relationships and build partnerships across the firm at all levels
• Architectural Approach Active curiosity to conceptualize, design, and construct data and processes; Helping articulate, govern, and evolve the Workplace Platforms strategy aligned with business objectives, goals, and strategy. Extensive experience decomposing relevant business problems into creative, efficient, and scalable solutions
• Platform Modernization Experience Hands-on knowledge with modernizing financial platforms, using enterprise patterns and tools to deliver enterprise-scale, secure and highly resilient solutions that will be the building blocks for our business.
• Influencing Skills Employs collaborative approach to gain consensus and support for the needs of the work. Understands organizational dynamics and adapts proposals to efficiently navigate constraints

The Value You Deliver

• Enabling the delivery of market leading products and capabilities.
• Representing WI with vendors, external partners, enterprise technology and other business units.
• Providing architecture solutions for multiple agile teams. Collaborate with product and engineering leads and senior management on product and delivery requirements, roadmaps, and vision.

The Team

WI Security Architecture operates within Fidelity Architecture and Engineering and is responsible for laying a solid foundation for Workplace Investments (WI) to secure customer and associate interactions. The team supports the WI Customer Protection Center of Excellence, as well as teams within WI and across Fidelity, to collaboratively define the security architecture for customer identity, authentication, authorization, fraud mitigation, cloud security, and data privacy.

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Information Technology

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.