Job Description:

The Role

The Director, Business Architecture is responsible for defining and supporting the process architecture for Fidelity, to be used in the implementation of Fidelity’s digital automation platform through re-engineering and automation strategies. Fidelity has a strategic objective to digitize and automate client interactions, operational and business processes, and this role will be in support of the planning & implementation of platforms that connect our digital and operations worlds.

This role will define, mobilize & support the execution of joint APS & Business Partner initiatives & roadmaps via negotiating the functional requirements of integrations between our new digital automation platform and business partner platforms. After defining business requirements, the Director, Business Architecture will partner with technical solution architects to build executable backlog and work to incorporate that effort into product roadmaps.

The Director, Business Architecture plays a key role in defining re-usable solution patterns to common business problems, inventorying shared needs across the enterprise, and partnering with technical solution architecture to create scalable enterprise grade solution frameworks. The Director, Business Architecture will champion these enterprise grade solution patterns with business partners to promote acceleration of digitization across the enterprise.

As an APS Business Architect, you blend extensive business, engineering, and design expertise with a passion for influencing and collaborating with others. You are deeply committed to delivering value to our clients. In an agile structure you will partner with other Fidelity leaders to both inform and implement consistent practices and standards for the specialized skills and expertise of your CoE, and influence the strategic decisions, solutions development and priorities related to your expertise. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

College Degree required.

Ten years of Product Management, Business Analysis, or Systems Analysis Experience, Business Architecture a plus.

Five years of working in a team focused on solution delivery.

Proven success at leading and delivering sophisticated strategic, change, and growth initiatives

Agile Experience a plus!

Business assessment, analysis & enterprise design, including process and organizational analysis & modeling, as well as whole business modeling.

Extensive experience in business capability modeling, including making recommendations to business partners, experience with using industry-standard Business Process Model & Notation is a plus.

Coordinated design that incorporates design thinking, bringing people, process, technology & capabilities together in cohesive designs.

Application and Technical Expertise in Workflow and Orchestration Systems, as well as related digital capabilities.

Experience implementing both with Agile and functional delivery teams.

Strong communication skills and ability to work interact, influence and negotiate at all levels of management.

Ability to empower and influence others with limited organizational authority.

Experience developing and advising business and enterprise architecture standards and methodologies.

The Value You Deliver

Individually and within collaborative teams, identify challenges and develop future state solutions and complete the most impactful changes.

Collaborate with functional business teams, technical architects, and Agile leaders to assess & develop comprehensive design solutions for complex business improvement opportunities that span the organization.

Tasked with leading design activities that advise implementation teams of business changes through Olympus and other APS products.

The Team

We work in a highly matrixed operating environment, aligned within the Firm’s agile operating model and working with key business partners.

As an APS Business Architect, you will work with fellow architects and business partners to blend extensive business, engineering, and design expertise with a passion for influencing and collaborating with others that ultimately delivering value to our clients and customers.

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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(opens in a new tab), we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2022. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

As a result of COVID-19, many of our associates are continuing to work remotely. When Fidelity employees eventually return to the office, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working(opens in a new tab).”

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 Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.