Director, Architecture

Fidelity; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect to drive the end-to-end solution architecture within the Wealth Advisory space. You will partner with sponsors, technology teams, and peer architects to enable and accelerate squad delivery with reliable, scalable solutions that deliver business value.

You will lead architecture design, engage multiple squads, and translate business needs into technology strategies, while maintaining relationships with senior

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in architecture and enterprise solutions across platforms.
• Ability to lead end-to-end design, articulate to sponsors and teams, and drive architecture ownership.
• Experience with APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and emerging technologies.
• Strong ability to influence stakeholders and drive product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end solution architecture design and ownership for Fidelity Institutional Technology.
• Collaborate with sponsors, technology teams, and other architects to deliver scalable solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, create design artifacts, and guide multiple squads.
• Refactor business processes and improve customer experience through architectural initiatives.

Job description

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

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 for the Fidelity Institutional Wealth Advisory space. They will partner with business/product sponsors, technology teams, 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, solutions that deliver key business value.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10 plus years of industry experience in architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions in multiple technology platforms, frameworks, and languages.

• Ability to provide technical leadership, prepare design artifacts, and implement solutions for technology teams. You will drive the end‑to‑end solutions architecture design and ownership and articulate the design to the product owners, technology 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 teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.

• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with senior leadership, 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 APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.

• Demonstrated software development experience with expertise in client‑side technologies (Angular/React, JavaScript/TypeScript) and strong experience using Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE, 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.

• Passion for technology, not limiting yourself to a set of languages or frameworks.

• Track record of critical thinking and translating business needs into technology solutions.

• Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence.

• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies and data platforms, with the ability to assess and integrate emerging capabilities.

• Experience managing third‑party vendor solutions, ensuring secure, compliant, and high‑performing integrations.

• 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.

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full‑time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

Category:

Information Technology

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement‑related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self‑regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.