Director, Architecture

Job Description:

The Role

As Director Cloud Architecture, you will work within the Fidelity Enterprise Architecture team supporting Workplace Investments Cloud Centre of Excellence (WI Cloud CoE) team accelerating Fidelity's journey to the cloud. You will work with Enterprise teams, Cloud Service Partners such as Azure, AWS and Fidelity business partners building exceptional cloud capabilities to accelerate their velocity of value using cloud native technologies. This role is focused on enablement of cloud services and delivery with a focus on data and data movement in the cloud environment, which requires a combination of both strong technical and influencing skills, as well as participation in architecture, design, and analysis activities. You will be responsible for driving the POC [Proof of Concept] and implementation of many of the cloud services, documenting architectural cloud patterns and supporting multiple teams and products across WI.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• BS or MS degree in a computer-related field is required
• Cloud certifications in Azure, AWS or other cloud providers is a plus
• Extensive experience with 2 or more programming languages (Java, Python, etc.)
• 10+ years of IT experience with 3+ years of extensive experience on Cloud platform and cloud technologies/services
• Experience in building resilient cloud architecture, site reliability engineering and exposure to Observability.
• Strong understanding across cloud infrastructure components (server, storage, network, data, and applications) to deliver end to end Cloud based architecture and solution.
• Deep understanding of well architected framework implementation in Enterprises: Operation excellent, Security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
• Experience with web, event driven, caching, batch architectures, crafting systems for high efficiency, low latency, high availability, and fault tolerance
• Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
• Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices with world class results.
• Passion for staying ahead of on technology trends to shift direction and drive results.
  

The Value You Deliver

• Strong technical leadership and ability to mentor other members within your team.
• Use industry standards to guide the path forward and keep up to date on where new security standards are going.
• Document patterns and solutions for the technology teams to implement their business solutions in the cloud.
• Excellent presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills, as well as skills which present/influence technology direction in business context to our partners.
• Engaging and forming relationships across business units including technology, cybersecurity, data, online business operations, customer contact centers, experience design, fraud intelligence and risk management groups.
• Adherence to privacy by design principles
  

How Your Work Impacts the Organization

You will be part of the Fidelity Enterprise Architecture team supporting the WI Cloud COE team and provide strategic technology direction and architecture vision for building and enhancing innovative cloud technology platforms.

The Workplace Investments Cloud Centre of Excellence team partners with delivery teams and builds cloud capabilities to accelerate cloud onboarding. This distributed team, applies multi-cloud native stacks while using industry leading methodologies, built using the latest technologies while ensuring high levels of resiliency and security. The team adopts a continuous learning approach to pursue engineering excellence in the cloud in a collaborative, open and clear 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, 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. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.

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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