Director, Architecture

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.
 

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.
   

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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