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 Team

Fidelity's Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Technology team designs, develops, implements and supports suite of systems products and services.

Required Expertise

• 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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