Job Description:

The Role

The Solution Architect will play a hands-on role driving the overall technical architecture and being responsible for the end-to-end solution architecture within Fidelity Institutional Technology with a primary focus on the Fidelity FundsNetwork product. FundsNetwork is the industry’s largest open-architecture investment product platform, enabling investment management firms to offer their products to clients across all of Fidelity’s distribution channels. They will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors, Agile Squads, and Peer Architects while driving Fidelity Institutional Technology’s digital modernization efforts. The Solution Architect’s focus is enabling and accelerating the delivery of our squads by creating highly reliable, scalable, end to end solutions that deliver key business value.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10+ years of industry experience in architecture, design, and development of enterprise solutions.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for agile teams. You will drive the end-to-end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners, agile teams, and architecture leadership.
• Ability to engage with multiple squads to deliver architecture artifacts, drive issue resolution, wellness plans, and product roadmaps.
• Ability to analyze business direction, understand the long-term vision, and quantify the risk/benefits in developing strategic technical solutions. Collaborate closely with the product owners and squads in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with product owners, architects, and technical leads for individual products and applications. Partner with peer architects to find opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
• Demonstrated and extensive knowledge of single page application design, external security, API design, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work with enterprise data and security architects to adhere to enterprise standards.
• Demonstrated software development experience with expertise in client-side technologies (Angular/React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and strong experience using Java, Spring Framework/Spring Boot, and web application technologies.
• Ability to work both independently and with all levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
• Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.
• Strong presentation skills: written and verbal communication including the ability to influence.
• Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred.
  

The Team

Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity's Institutional businesses. The FIT Architecture group is a comprehensive central architecture practice, leading IT strategy and architecture transformation, IT oversight and governance, promoting collaboration and open communication to facilitate better decision making at all levels. Technology changes lives. Our strategies and solutions make that happen.

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