Principal Solutions 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 Fidelity Institutional Technology. They will partner with the Business/Product Sponsors, Agile Squads, 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

• 6+ 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.

• Possess 2 years experience with architecture governance, creating an architectural roadmap, architecture blueprints, helping business to refine their product roadmap, etc.

• 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 knowledge of APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies.

• Demonstrated understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.

• Demonstrated software development experience 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.

• Proven 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

Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity's Institutional businesses. The Fidelity Institutional Technology 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.

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles. Some roles may have unique onsite requirements. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

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.