Director, Architecture

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

The Role

This is an end-to-end Technical Solution Architecture role that spans across multiple product areas within the Money Movement domain. You will work with business and technology leadership to define interim and target architectures, roadmaps, and blueprints to help deliver technical products that enable business capabilities for our clients.

You will be working on all aspects of architecture including infrastructure, data, security, resilience, integration, performance and others to build next generation software components at one of the largest high-volume FinTech companies in the world.

You will partner with business sponsors, product owners, engineers and other architects in an agile (scrum) environment to design, test, and implement technology solutions while mentoring engineers throughout the process using architecture standards and guidelines.

As a member of the architecture team, you will work with product and engineering teams to help champion innovation, drive standardization, and deliver modern technology patterns across the technology stack for our customers. You will drive Fidelity’s architecture vision through contributing to product road maps and influencing business vision.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

An ideal candidate will have a solid computer science foundation, an effective combination of interpersonal and technical skills, as well as passion for learning and expanding in various technologies. You will have demonstrated experience in integration projects and familiarity with industry standard integration patterns with focus on reusability and scale when it comes to building and deploying capabilities.

• 6+ years’ experience designing/developing APIs and some combination of the following:
• Proven track record as a Solution Architect designing and building scalable solutions
• Experience with Agile development methodology
• Experience with various architecture styles such as SOA & Micro-Services
• Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred.
• Experience in all aspects of AWS cloud computing environments
• Experience with event-driven, serverless architecture, design, and implementation.
• Experience in full-stack development of N-tiered applications
• Experience developing applications using Java, Python, and Angular
• Experience with Generative AI, RAG, Agentic AI is a plus
• Working knowledge of frameworks like TOGAF & Amazon Well-Architected Framework
• Passion for technology, not limiting yourself to a set of languages or frameworks.
• Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.
• Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team player across organizations.

The Team

This role will support 2 to 4 scrum teams delivering technology products to help Fidelity drive and implement Fidelity’s business vision for our customers. This role will coordinate closely with the product owners and other colleagues across the enterprise to ensure teams’ alignment on overarching enterprise architecture, business and technology goals.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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