Director, Architecture - 2058906

Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Boston, MA
Posted on: July 29, 2022

Job Description:

Develops solutions for solving technology and business problems in the areas of Portfolio Management, Analysis, and Construction, and Order Management and Trading. Guides development teams in the areas of three-tier application development, using Java, Spring, myBatis, Oracle (RAC), JMS, Kafka, jQuery, JavaScript, Backbone, and Angular. Participates in research to recommend appropriate models, methods, tools, and technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Leads architecture and solution definition in the areas of application, data, and infrastructure. Leads systems design using architecture patterns -- event driven architectures, streaming, distributed caching, and scale out and resilient architectures. Draws on in-depth knowledge of the business unit or function to provide business unit-wide solutions. Researches and recommends new technologies in support of the strategic direction of the business unit.

Primary Responsibilities:

Drives decisions on technology strategy and solutions using architecture standards.

Translates business objectives into technology strategy, using enterprise technologies, architectural styles, and techniques.

Directs project teams on application design and technologies across the stack -- User Interfaces (UIs), services, and databases.

Defines patterns and best practices to address functional and non-functional requirements.

Drives architecture reviews with delivery teams, develops best practices, and ensures adherence to standards, roadmaps, and the Information Technology (IT) blueprint.

Promotes innovations within the organization by monitoring industry trends in application architectures and application development.

Conducts Poof of Concepts (PoCs) for assessments of potential implementation choices and their benefits.

Develops and directs software systems testing and validation procedures, programming, and documentation.

Provides architecture consultation on development and delivery of major technology initiatives for the business unit.

Provides architecture consultation on deployment of major technology deliverables.

Provides architecture documentation of major technology applications.

Sets vision, goals, and architecture direction of the team.

Plans and leads organization-wide architecture initiatives.

Provides leadership, technical supervision, and expertise to multiple teams in broad technical areas on complex organization-wide projects.

Oversees the technical implementation of cross-divisional or cross-company architectural components.

Education and Experience:

Bachelors degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and six (6) years of experience in the job offered or six (6) years of experience designing and implementing scalable and performant transactional applications and platforms in a financial services domain -- portfolio construction or trading.

Or, alternatively, Masters degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or four (4) years of experience designing and implementing scalable and performant transactional applications and platforms in a financial services domain -- portfolio construction or trading.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

Demonstrated Expertise (DE) building and performance tuning high throughput, performant, scalable, and resilient transactional applications, using event driven architectures, Java, functional programming, Spring, myBatis, Kafka, Tibco EMS, Oracle (RAC), Dynatrace, and distributed caches -- Redis or Gemfire GFE.

DE building middle-tier applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud technologies -- AWS S3, EC2, EBS, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, and SQS; and deploying middle-tier applications, using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, Stash, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, and uDeploy.

DE developing GUI applications, using MVC architectures, Angular, Backbone, Javascript, JQuery, CSS, and Backbone.

DE driving adoption of architecture best practices and patterns through engagement with development teams.

For full job details and to apply, please visit https://jobs.fidelity.com/ and search for job number: 2058906.

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