Director, Solutions Architect

Job Description:

At Fidelity Personal Investing (PI) we’re growing very fast and looking for an accomplished Solution Architect. In this role, you will use your knowledge and leadership of product management, industries, software and cloud computing to design solutions and take them to market. You will help drive awareness of our solutions within and across multiple Business Units and organizations. Your enthusiasm, technical and business depth, and excellent presentation skills will help decision makers understand the benefits of Architectural Solutions to drive growth and customer success.

A very rare opportunity within Fidelity Personal Investing, this position is in a highly effective and collaborative group for high potential candidate. It will be located full time in Durham NC.

The Experience We Are Looking For:

7+ years’ experience engineering/developing web enabled applications and some combination of the following:

• Expert knowledge on crafting new technology solutions and strategies
• Proven track record as a Solution Architect or Technical Lead, crafting new solutions
• Experience or certification in Cloud-based (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) Architecture
• Desire/ability to learn and implement new technologies
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Background with multiple enterprise technologies
• Experience with MicroService pattern & SOA methodology
• Exposure to front-end UI technologies would be helpful
• Experience or working knowledge of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and Event patterns
• Experience in all aspects of Architecture Design and cloud computing (infrastructure, storage, platforms and data).
• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C++, Javascript.
• Shown an understanding and consistent record for cloud based solutions, continuous integration/deployment and serverless architecture.
• Heightened awareness, experience or passion in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

The Purpose of Your Role:

• Goal to compete with digital-first innovators by delivering digital capabilities, and allowing clients to understand and control how, when, and by whom their data is used.
• Build capability to service every customer completely digitally: Create a digitally-based service platform with next gen tools for associates & customers so our people are empowered to always provide value-added services.
• Demonstration of personal leadership to achieve individual and team success. Acting as a multiplier, transforms and grows others.
• Ownership of the career growth and skills development of associates. Identifies talent needs throughout the organization.
• Actively seeking knowledge and understanding of cloud, platform, data, and digital strategies across domains and is responsible for integrating strategies into design and execution.
• Articulation of the Future State Architecture via a Narrative document, complemented by a detailed Strategy, which contains all of the relevant Architecture & Design artifacts enabling the business strategy delivering value our customers will recognize. Additionally, it is expected that the proposed Future State Architecture has been validated by a number of high-value proofs-of-concept.
• A detailed Collaboration Execution Plan developed & reviewed with the respective Development Team Leader(s), regarding the evolution from the Current to Future State architectures. This plan should contain a Transition Plan, for full enablement of the Squad, in the competencies required to operate within the context of the new architecture.
• Collaboration with all other Solution Architects, & the Platform Engineering organization, with respect to the refinement & evolution of the Solutions Architecture Processes & Practices.
• Continuous "outside-in" scanning, so as to facilitate continuous learning, hands-on understanding, & adoption of Solutions Architecture industry standard methodologies & techniques.
• All Solutions Architecture activities should be practiced within the context of actual Capabilities & Platforms, tactically or strategically significant to the Personal Investing Business Unit’s Digital Business Strategy.
• Ideally, you will become part of the Fidelity Personal Investing Architecture Group utilized across the entire organization.

The Skills You Bring:

• Your ability to work in a dynamic, highly matrixed environment to achieve group goals
• Your dream and aptitude for learning new technologies
• Your previous experience using business requirements to develop technical designs and define architectural strategies and solutions
• Perform (or willingness to learn) the coding to deliver polyglot solutions that delight our customers
• Your willingness to partner effectively with your technology business partners
• Your dedication to sharing knowledge and providing mentorship to less expert developers in their work

The Value You Deliver:

• Drive target architecture for various solutions in PI (Personal Investing)
• Develop prototypes and spearhead solutions in MVP, iterative approach
• Work with multiple squads using Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Provide technical expertise as requested by members of various scrum teams

How Your Work Impacts The Organization:

Fidelity Personal Investing Development teams provide direction and implementation to the experiences that enable our Retail customers to be financially successful. Your work, as part of the team, enables functionality developed throughout the firm to reach these customers and craft the high-value interactions that will keep them coming back. As part of the team you will be able to impact the speed, efficacy, and scale of the technical solutions that will serve these customers through forward-looking architectural designs as well as hands-on implementation.

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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).