Director of Architecture – Financial Platforms

Role Overview

• Drive the evolution of our financial operations ecosystem, focusing on regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and platform resilience.
• Champion architectural innovation, promote standardization, and deliver scalable technology solutions.
• Shape the product roadmap in alignment with business priorities and partner close with engineering and business teams to design, implement, and deploy end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to enterprise strategy and mentor others in best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience architecting distributed systems and applications.
• 3+ years of experience with Azure and/or AWS; certification is a plus.
• Deep knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, and security, with authoritative expertise in one or more of these areas.
• Working knowledge of technical architecture pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Background with multiple enterprise technologies.
• Understanding of mainframe technology is desired but not required.
• Experience with mainframe modernization is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business direction and challenges, assess long-term vision, and develop strategic technical solutions.
• Ability to ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
• Experience collaborating with peer architects to identify opportunities for process refactoring, customer experience improvements, and capability rationalization.
• Authoritative understanding of Agile development methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong presentation, documentation, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Experience networking across business units and externally to promote reusable processes, patterns, and practices.
• Experience in the financial services or benefits administration industry is a plus.
• Willingness to experiment, innovate, and continuously learn and grow.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Distributed Systems
• Microservices

Benefits

• 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 every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.