Vice President, Architecture

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Workplace Investments (WI) is looking for a Vice President, Architecture to be a key player in moving us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business. Workplace Platforms builds some of our key platforms that are used across WI. You will be a critical part of building modern Stock Plan Services recordkeeping platform while driving adoption of common WI capabilities such as product configuration, participant data management, and exchanging data with clients and partners.

As a leader within the architecture team, the candidate will cultivate innovation, drive standardization, and deliver pioneering technology patterns across the stack for our customers' use. You will help with the product roadmap evolution in conjunction with business unit product goals and provide leadership in computing services, adoption of platforms and consolidation across initiatives. Your architectural direction will help build our future state recordkeeping system.

The Skills you bring

• Architectural Approach: Active curiosity to conceptualize, design, and construct data and processes; Helping articulate, govern, and evolve the Workplace Platforms strategy align with business objectives, goals, and strategy. Extensive experience decomposing relevant business problems into creative, efficient, and scalable solutions

• Platform Modernization Experience: Hands-on knowledge with modernizing financial platforms, using enterprise patterns and tools to deliver enterprise-scale, secure and highly resilient solutions that will be the building blocks for our business.

• Communication: Strong story-telling skills that drive program messaging and influence decisions and action. Ability to articulate architecture solutions to Senior Executives and architecture leadership

• Collaboration: Ability to navigate sophisticated, interpersonal relationships and build partnerships across the firm at all levels

• People Management: Senior level experience managing, leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people

• 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

• Business/Application Knowledge: Understanding of the Stock Plan Services domain model as well as the business practices of participant and associate personas

The Expertise You Bring

• You have good communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with which you influence and engage across Fidelity

• Confirmed experience in Modern Architecture techniques and Cloud Data Technologies

• Experience practicing Business Architecture including aligning Business and Technology strategies, Customer Journeys, Capability Modeling and Roadmaps

• Demonstrated ability in defining and delivering on application or software architectures, architecture strategies, and solutions

• 5+ years in successfully using public cloud service providers (AWS/Azure) and building platforms

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 and Defined Benefits.

Architecture is a strategic and leadership role at WI and at Fidelity. As part of the WI Technology Architecture team, you will be key part of a hard-working team that works across WI and collaborates across the enterprise on strategies and standards.

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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 working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

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.