App Architect

Fidelity Investments; Toronto; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector seeks an App Architect to lead the design of application components and data flows. This critical role requires exceptional experience in IT and architecture, with a significant focus on workflow automation and system integrations. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong stakeholder management, technical expertise, and a commitment to delivering innovative solutions. Experience with financial business processes is essential.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience within IT, preferably development background.
• 2+ years in designer or architect position.
• Experience in BPM design and STP use cases.

Responsibilities

• Author the design of application components (secure, reusable, scalable).
• Provide technology leadership and navigate complex technical issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure architecture meets business requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Technical Insight

Communication Skills

Education

Completed University Degree or Equivalent Experience

Tools

AWS

Appian

Pega

Angular

React

Job description

You will be working on a 100% remote schedule as part of Fidelity’s dynamic working arrangement.

Fidelity Clearing Canada (FCC) is the leading independent clearing broker and custodian in the Canadian market. We provide trade execution, clearing, custody and back-office support services to Canadian-based brokerage firms and the Canadian brokerage arms of U.S.-based firms.

For more information about Fidelity Clearing Canada, please visit

What You’ll Be Doing

The App Architect authors the high-level design of application components and data flows of business processes at Fidelity Clearing Canada. This includes customer and digital solutions such as uOpen and uDirect.

The role works as part of an agile delivery team. For solutions of medium to large complexity, the application architect will present at ARB. Solutions must demonstrate alignment to enterprise architecture and the support of business objectives.

• Author the design of application components that secure, reusable, scalable and follow target enterprise architecture principles.
• Provide technology leadership. Advise stakeholders on technical activities, challenges, rationalization of architecture decisions and communicate plans to application team members.
• Advise on issues and lead teams to navigate and resolve complex technical issues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the architecture meets business requirements and is well integrated with enterprise assets.
• Participate in agile meetings to discuss planning, blockers and report progress on major issues.

What We’re Looking For

• Completed University Degree or equivalent working experience
• 7+ years’ experience within IT, preferably a development background
• 2+ years within a designer or architect position
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to deliver solutions. The ability to rationalize decisions and reach consensus.
• Experience in straight through processing (STP) of business processes in a financial domain : Client Account Opening, KYC, Account Transfers, Account Maintenance, etc.
• Strong technical insight and experience to inform, guide, challenge and support technical decisions.
• Demonstrated experience with B2B and system integrations using APIs.
• Good knowledge of infrastructure and technical stacks : AWS, PaaS, IaaS, SaaS and low-code frameworks.
• 1+ year in a formal architecture group (ARB, Architecture Review Board) is preferred.

The Skills We’re Looking For

• Significant experience in BPM design and STP use cases involving : account onboarding, form generation, e-signature, business rules, document management.
• Expert knowledge of one or more BPM / iBPM / workflow platforms : Appian, Camunda, Pega, etc.
• Strong experience with full stack web applications : Angular, React, JEE, Spring, Relational Databases.
• Strong technical skills required to prototype and review developer code on an as needed basis.
• Experience working as a service provider and in a multi-tenant environment.
• Experience operating within an architecture framework : TOGAF
• Solid knowledge of IAM, SSO, RBAC and API concepts.
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team environment.

Current work authorization for Canada is required for all openings.