Vice President, Architecture

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Workplace Investments is looking for a Vice President, Associate Experience Architecture to be a leader in moving us forward on our digital associate & content experience and the journey for Associate Experience & Service Strategy Product Area. You will lead a talented and diverse team responsible for delivering on the WI Digital Experience Domain's strategic vision by crafting capabilities to our workplace investing customers. Working closely with business partners and technology teams to understand the associate desktop landscape and deliver sophisticated and scalable experiences to our customers. In alignment with the Enterprise teams, you will move the WI strategy forward.

The Expertise We're Looking For

• People Management: Senior level experience leading, organizing coaching, mentoring, and developing people.
• Architectural Mentality: Active curiosity to conceptualize, design, and deliver associate platforms; Helping articulate, govern, and evolve the realization of WI's associate capabilities to align with business objectives, goals, and strategy. Extensive experience decomposing important business problems into creative, efficient, and scalable solutions.
• Desktop and Content Experience: Experience delivering associate desktop and content solutions. Hands-on knowledge of interop.io, OpenFin, Adobe Experience Manager, or Tridion technologies to deliver enterprise-scale solutions that are elegant, secure, and dynamic.
• Communication: Good communication skills that drive program messaging, influence decisions to Senior Leaders
• Collaboration: Ability to navigate sophisticated, interpersonal relationships and build partnerships across the firm at all levels
• Leadership: Strong management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills are a must; providing technical leadership and hands on day-to-day solutions to squads
• Influencing Skills: Employs collaborative approach to gain consensus and support for the needs of the work. Understands organizational dynamics and adapts proposals to efficiently navigate constraints.
• Digital Reuse: Understanding the complexities of supporting omni-channel reuse.

The Purpose of Your Role

In this role, you will serve as the Vice President of Associate Experience Architecture directing a team of architects focusing on associate desktop experiences, frameworks, and platforms. You will provide leadership for the overall associate desktop platform, responsible for the design, implementation, and quality for these desktop experiences. You will work closely with the Product Area to address sophisticated and exciting business problems and recommend impactful architecture solutions for Fidelity's associate and associate content experiences.

The Value You Deliver

• Collaborate with a variety of individuals and groups across Fidelity in a constructive manner to accomplish tasks and drive forward key business initiatives.
• Influence and articulate architecture solutions to product, development, and architecture leadership.
• Ability to learn quickly, be flexible, adapt and strive to excel in a fast paced, changing environment.
• Extensive knowledge of internet, desktop, and application architecture, as well as current and emerging technologies
• Extensive experience with content technologies (SDL Tridion and Adobe experience manager) and search engines (SOLR, Kendra and Lucid works) etc.

The Skills You Bring

Your background in the following will prove vital:

• Ability to be highly organized, very responsive, and committed to quality and high standards.
• Experience leading and coordinating architecture for the development and deployment of key associate apps and features.
• Extensive experience building desktop applications with Glue42 or OpenFin.
• Experience with content management and search technologies such as SDL, AEM, Kendra, OpenSearch, and Lucid Works
• Deep knowledge of client-side technologies including Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, Client-Side Eventing strategies, etc.
• Strong technical background on API standards and technologies, open micro service architectures, building digital query bases APIs with GraphQL

The Team

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) provides benefits to Fidelity customers, employers, and their employees, in a growing set of areas - Defined Contribution, Stock Plan Services, Investment Products & Consulting, Student Debt and Defined Benefits.

As part of the FEA Technology Architecture team, you will be key player in helping move us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business.

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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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