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Fidelity Investments

Director, Application Security Architect

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, United States


Job Description:

The Role

At Fidelity Asset Management Technology, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Application Security Architect to drive strategic security initiatives across our entire technology landscape. In this role, you will work directly with product teams across Asset Management Technology and the enterprise to design secure solutions that meet business priorities and initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Continuously evaluate security architecture trends and the emerging threat landscape and integrate new technologies and tools to enhance security capabilities.
  • Collaborate with architecture communities across Asset Management and in cross business unit working teams at the enterprise level.
  • Collaborate with product teams to understand security requirements and deliver effective solutions.
  • Design and implement robust, scalable application security architecture solutions that support the Asset Management business.
  • Devise the strategic vision and roadmap to define investments that continuously evolving our risk posture.
  • Conduct hands-on POCs and provide proven migration paths for product teams to advance our roadmap
  • Influence Asset Management Technology and enterprise security strategy and promote changes in process, standards, or technologies when necessary.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 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.
  • Deep experience in architecting, designing & building highly scalable, low-latency applications
  • Organizational savvy and maturity, ability to work effectively across different organizational units and business groups.
  • Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing strategies, aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing technology partners to adopt and implement accordingly.
  • Good interpersonal and communication
  • Passion and curiosity to work with others to foster ideas and produce creative solutions to intricate problems while making smart choices balancing design and delivery.
  • Passion for staying current on technology trends to shift direction and get results.
  • Demonstrated desire and skill to turn concept and theory into pragmatic implementations by performing end-to-end hands-on proofs of concept, providing concrete solutions and clear migration plans to enable adoption.
  • Deep understanding of application security frameworks, disciplines and practices, experience with secure application development and application security risk mitigation techniques.
  • Deep technical understanding of and experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, Identity and Access Management, cryptography, key management, passwordless authentication, OIDC, OAuth, SAML, Azure AD, SPIFFE, SPIRE
  • Experience addressing unique security considerations of cloud computing, especially that of AWS
  • Experience architecting and implementing solutions for identity management including single sign-on and federated identity management, authorization and identity provisioning.
  • Experience of developing applications with Java & SpringBoot
  • Experience with working with API's (Both API Development & API Consumption)
  • Experience in designing, developing, and deploying applications on AWS. Practical knowledge of a broad range of AWS services, including compute, containers, databases, analytics, and security.
  • Hands-on experience with containers (Docker)and Kubernetes
  • Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices

The Team

You will a member of the Asset Management Architecture team that provides the architecture direction, decisions and solutions for Asset Management. Throughout the implementation of the proposed solutions, you will work closely with the product and engineering teams for the Technology Foundations and other technology teams. You will collaborate with others in Asset Management innovative solutions and strategies.

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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, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. 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.

Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

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 Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com.

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