Job Description:

The Role

As Product Area/Domain Architect in Asset Management Technology Architecture team, you blend deep investment management demonstrated ability with a passion for coaching, mentoring and developing highly performing teams. In an agile structure you will collaborate with partners and collaborators in the business to develop an architecture roadmap, influence the strategic decisions and build solutions. You will be applying business architecture techniques to develop product roadmaps and implementation strategies. You are committed to developing your own expertise and knowledge to bring the latest thinking to your role to empower others with that knowledge. Asset Management’s technology environment is completely cloud-based, hence a deep understanding of Cloud Technology with AWS and/or Azure is a must.

As a senior architect for a product area or a domain, you will spend a portion of your time applying your expertise and experience across multiple product areas to optimize solutions and help product areas align with enterprise-wide strategies. Successful candidates would possess the following:

Strong technical foundation: including an undergraduate degree in computer science or a related field, ideally combined with advanced technical degree. Knowledge of the financial industry and portfolio management concepts is a plus.

Depth of knowledge in architecture and an ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions. Experience in a wide array of architecture patterns including architecting highly performant systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, data architecture and security architectures. Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, and the cloud platforms, especially AWS is desired.

Strong development and process methodology subject area expertise. The successful candidate will lead the definition and adoption of architecture engagement models and SDLC standard methodologies, while promoting and communicating their value proposition.

Passionate about technology and its application to solve intricate problems in asset management.

Act as an advocate for architecture, internally and externally. Promote through consistent communication and strong listening and persuasion skills. Facilitate consensus across a diverse group of independent minded users. Lead the overall definition of the architecture competency, promote the engagement model and communicate the overall architecture value proposition and metrics.

Ability to partner with other leaders to:

influence strategic backlog and prioritization decisions related to your area of expertise

measure performance through established objectives and KPI’s to deliver agreed upon business, technology, and people results

align chapter members across squads and product areas to ensure the best utilization of talent while also building learning opportunities and learning day content to develop skills

set and apply standards and ensure the work performed is aligned with established road maps

remove impediments to delivering value

Actively sharing insights, knowledge, industry practices and developments across the organization

The role will be available in Boston, MA; Merrimack, NH; Smithfield, RI; or Raleigh, NC.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

15+ years of software development and product architecture experience.

Demonstrated architecture and personal leadership experience

Passionate about technology and delivering solutions for difficult and intricate problems. Current on functional and reactive programming, microservices

Experience with event driven architectures, caching, scale-out architectures, crafting systems for high efficiency, low latency, managing conflation, high availability and fault tolerance

Experience with sophisticated event processing, RESTful API design, distributed architecture patterns and highly transaction trading integrations is required.

Hands on experience in cloud technologies and practices, building architectures that demonstrate cloud-native services such as AWS EC2, S3, SNS/SQS, API Gateway, Lambda is desired

Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices.

Strong skills and demonstrated focus in logical and component architecture design and deployment.

Proven success in composing and completing long term product strategies

Expert knowledge and experience in Java, C#, Python, Kafka, Angular, related frameworks, various opensource stacks, and relational databases. Exposure to Scala, Go and Akka are a plus.

Experience with Azure, Microsoft Office 365 services and Salesforce SaaS is a plus.

The Value You Deliver

Development of sound, well-architected solutions, articulate their benefits, demonstrate a solid understanding of application, data and infrastructure architecture expertise and systems design.

Collaboration with business and IT leadership teams to outline the benefits and challenges of implementing and transitioning to the future architecture. Being a business problem solver capable of translating business needs into technology solutions.

Working closely with the architecture group and delivery teams to organize and participate in architecture reviews, develop methodologies and insure alignment to standards, roadmaps and the IT Blueprint.

Proactive monitoring of industry trends ensuring that Fidelity Investments continues to be an authority in delivering high quality IT solutions to its Asset Management business. Ensuring that Fidelity Investments is well positioned against its competitors and that the clients and shareholders are well served.

Advocacy for architecture, internally and externally. Evangelization of the architecture mission through consistent communication and strong listening and persuasion skills. Facilitation of consensus across a diverse group of independent minded colleagues. Leading the overall definition of the architecture competency, promoting the engagement model and communicating the overall architecture value proposition.

Mentor, coach and develop a world-class architecture team. Foster teamwork and a spirit of collaboration among team members both onshore and offshore as well as with business partners while conveying timeliness and responsiveness to meet business needs.

The Team

In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for business architecture and solutions for one or more domains in a ground breaking technology environment for Asset Management. You will thrive in a dynamic environment that rewards your creativity, eye for business and passion for technical innovation. By demonstrating and promoting Fidelity and agile leadership behaviors, you evolve and sustain our innovative, agile culture.

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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.