VP of Architecture, Workforce Management

Fidelity Investments; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments in Durham, NC is seeking an experienced software architect to own the Workforce Management platform's architectural definition and target-state design. You will shape domains, data flows, and non-functional requirements to deliver a scalable, secure, and extensible solution.

You will partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Product, and Operations to translate strategic intent into concrete roadmaps, governance, and engineering execution models while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years in Sr. architecture or equivalent leadership.
• Deep expertise in Java and cloud-based microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes, API gateways, and CI/CD.
• Proven ability to define target-state roadmaps and modernization strategies.
• Comfort in regulated financial services environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state WFM architecture blueprint, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
• Define technical strategy for an enterprise-grade WFM platform.
• Translate business capabilities into roadmaps and delivery models.
• Ensure decisions support scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency.
• Serve as senior technical authority for WFM design and execution.
• Translate standards into concrete patterns and guardrails.
• Align with Enterprise Architecture to governance expectations.
• Guide teams through architecture decisions and guardrails.
• Identify risks, integration complexity, and platform debt early.
• Establish review mechanisms for quality without delivery friction.
• Create patterns for high availability, DR, and production readiness.
• Promote engineering discipline with SLOs and metrics.

Skills

Java

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Microservices

Event-driven design

CI/CD practices

Observability & reliability

Architecture leadership

Tools

API Gateways

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Description

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Role

Fidelity is building a modern, in‑house Workforce Management (WFM) platform. You will own the technical architecture design and definition. With your Workforce management domain expertise, you will help translate business ambition, enterprise architecture direction, product priorities and operational requirements into an executable platform strategy. You will be responsible for shaping the target-state architecture, defining key platform capabilities, establishing technical guardrails, and ensuring engineering teams are building toward a scalable, resilient, secure, and extensible workforce management platform. The role will partner closely with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Product, Operations and Business Unit stakeholders to convert enterprise standards and strategic intent into practical architecture decisions, implementation patterns and delivery roadmap. The ideal candidate has deep domain expertise in contact center Workforce Management or Workforce Optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and lead the creation of the Workforce Management target-state architecture blueprint, including platform domains, service boundaries, integration patterns, data flows, runtime capabilities, and non-functional requirements.
• Establish the technical strategy for building a modern, enterprise-grade Workforce Management platform.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to translate business capabilities into platform roadmaps, sequencing plans, and engineering execution models.
• Ensure early architecture decisions support long-term scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Sever as the senior technical authority for Workforce Management design and execution architecture.
• Translate enterprise architecture standards into concrete engineering patterns, reference designs, and implementation guardrails.
• Work closely with existing enterprise architecture organization to ensure alignment with firmwide standards, technology direction, security requirements, and governance expectations.
• Guide engineering teams through key architecture design decisions.
• Identify architectural risks, integration complexity, sequencing issues, and platform debt early in the development lifecycle.
• Establish architecture review mechanisms that improve quality and consistency without creating unnecessary delivery friction.
• Establish patterns for high availability, fault isolation, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and production support.
• Promote engineering discipline through SLOs, operational metrics, DORA metrics, architecture decision records, production readiness reviews, and measurable engineering outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Sr. Architecture role.
• High proficiency in Java.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized services, API gateways, event streaming, observability platforms, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Deep domain expertise in Workforce Management architecture: forecasting, scheduling and schedule optimization, adherence and real-time/intraday management for an enterprise-grade contact center platform.
• Proven experience defining target-state platform roadmaps, engineering guardrails, and modernization strategies for complex enterprise systems.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, microservices, APIs, event-driven design, observability, resiliency, and service ownership models
• Experience with AI-assisted development to accelerate development lifecycle.
• Strong judgement in balancing speed, quality, risk, enterprise governance, and long-term platform sustainability
• Ability to mentor senior technical leaders and create clarity across teams working on complex, interdependent platform capabilities.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain and drive consensus on technical strategy, risks, and trade-offs.
• Comfort operating in a regulated financial-services environment and its associated data, audit, and change-control expectations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior architecture role at a Workforce Management or Workforce Optimization SaaS provider
• Direct experience architecting systems that use constraint-based optimization or operations-research techniques (OR-Tools, CP-SAT, or comparable solvers) at production scale.
• Experience with AI-enabled Workforce Management or Workforce Optimization

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.

Certifications

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.