Portfolio Architect - ISS

Fidelity International; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment solutions firm in London seeks a Portfolio Architect to provide technical expertise and guide strategic architectural initiatives. Responsibilities include identifying current technology usage, developing application architecture, and participating in significant transformation projects. The ideal candidate has a background in asset management and strong communication skills. This role offers flexible working options.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Inclusive culture

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in asset management.
• Experience with managing technology-driven business process change.
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Identify current technology usage and business value.
• Develop application architecture and consensus on roadmap.
• Design and deliver transformation of ISS technology.

Skills

Technical expertise

Strong communication skills

Leadership skills

Problem-solving skills

Knowledge of financial markets

Job description

Overview

As a Portfolio Architect for ISS, you will provide technical expertise to both the Business and Technology stakeholders in order to direct the investment and transformation from an architecture perspective to help deliver the strategic ISS initiatives in line with the Business, Technology and Data strategies. This includes working with senior business stakeholders to understand and develop their longer term vision, aligning roadmaps to this, developing technology roadmaps that align to both the business vision as well as technology objectives, providing guidance on M&A activity., Architect

Responsibilities

• Identify the current state of how technology is used in the organisation, what technologies are being used and how they are deployed along with the business value the technology is providing.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organisation\'s targeted customer outcomes.
• Work as part of the team in proposing and gaining agreement for target application architecture for ISS that includes the articulation of a clear transformation roadmap.
• Manage key business stakeholders to achieve consensus agreement to vision and roadmap.
• Ensure that technology solutions to business problems are both pragmatic and supportive of the Global strategic architecture direction.
• Develop architectures that are aligned to business goals, drivers, and strategies; drawing on knowledge of current and possible future business trends, policies and practices and business competition landscape.
• Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
• Maintain a forward-looking perspective on emerging technology developments and their relevance to Business and Technology Strategies.
• Monitor technology developments to ensure that the organisation is effectively positioned to respond to and leverage opportunities that enhance competitive position through the effective application of technology to the business.
• Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state.
• Be an advisor to the business and technology leads on ISS architecture and strategy.
• Proactively communicate decisions, roadmap, insight to the technology and business colleagues.
• Proactively input into and provide architectural leadership in governance forums.
• Participate in the development of new concepts to support business strategy and provide recommendations to leverage technology for competitive advantage, internal efficiency and improved service.
• Participate in managing vendor relationships on new and existing products, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations.
• Architecture\'s success will depend on close collaboration with many other teams in Fidelity, including Engineering, Data, Delivery, Change, Security and Business teams
• Design and deliver the transformation of the ISS technology estate, together with the Technology and Business teams.
• Translate high level business architecture into technology architectures that align to global strategies, simplify the existing architecture, deliver cost saving opportunities and, where appropriate, reusable services.

Qualifications / Experience

• Designed & delivered large transformation programme from legacy to new technology
• Extensive experience in the asset management across Investment Management, operations and distribution business
• Experience working with senior business stakeholders
• Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions
• Strong communication skills with different types and levels of stakeholders both internal and external.
• Effective leadership skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing, bridge-building and political astuteness
• Hands-on experience managing end-to-end systems development from customer specifications through to deployment
• Experience of managing technology driven business process change
• The ability to convey complex, abstract technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• A good understanding of financial markets, products and organisations
• Excellent and resourceful problem-solving skills, adaptable with a willingness to learn
• Proactive and self-organising with a "can-do" approach

Company & Benefits

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.

Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $567 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures. Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We are proud of our inclusive culture and encourage applications from the widest mix of talent, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social background and more. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond. We are committed to being a truly flexible employer, encouraging and trusting our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our business, our colleagues and our clients. We offer the maximum possible flexibility over where and when you work for all, considering your role and any local regulations. We call this new approach \"dynamic working\". Find out more about what we do, our history, our new approach of \"dynamic working\" and how you could be a part of our future at careers.fidelityinternational.com/about-us.

About your team Fidelity is investing in its Enterprise Architecture team with the purpose to serve the needs of Fidelity by enabling the Business, Technology and Data strategies to flourish to realise the targeted business opportunities and value. Investment Services and Solutions is one of the main business pillars and investment areas within Fidelity. It is going through a phase of rapid and substantial transformation of its business model as well as the Technology estate. The ISS Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for the Business, Information and Technology architecture across the Investment Services and solutions business.