Lead Solution Architect

Fidelity TalentSource; Merrimack (NH); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity TalentSource seeks a Lead Solution Architect to drive technical architecture for Institutional Wealth Management Services. This role demands strong leadership abilities, extensive experience in enterprise solutions, and expertise in cloud technologies. The successful candidate will partner with cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technology solutions and ensure a robust architecture direction.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience in architecture, analytics, and development of enterprise solutions.
• Strong experience with Java, Java EE/Jakarta EE, Angular/React, and web application technologies.
• Cloud certification preferred, with experience in AWS or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Drive the overall technical architecture and end-to-end solution architecture.
• Engage with squads to deliver architecture artifacts and resolve issues.
• Analyze business direction and collaborate with product owners on solutions.

Skills

Technical Leadership

Agile Development

Cloud Technologies

APIs

Data Architecture

Critical Thinking

Job description

Fidelity TalentSource is your destination for discovering your next temporary role at Fidelity Investments. We are currently sourcing for a Lead Solution Architect in Smithfield, RI or Merrimack, NH!

Lead Solution Architect

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 the Institutional Wealth Management Services (IWMS) space. They will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors, Agile Squads, and Peer Architects while driving the IWMS 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+ 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 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 APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.
Demonstrated expert understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
Demonstrated software development experience with expertise in client-side technologies (Angular/React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS) 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.
Experience in cloud technologies and practices, building and deploying applications using either AWS or Azure or both. Cloud certification preferred.
The Team
The Institutional Wealth Management Services Architecture team provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity's Institutional businesses. This team 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.

Please see the below pay rate range for the work location of Rhode Island only: $75.00-133.50 per hour.

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors.