Job Description:
Director, Architecture - mainframe
The Role
The Director, Architecture - will work hand in hand with business leadership and our engineering partners to evolve our SPS mainframe (FBSI) capabilities. You will be hands on working to understand the mainframe MIPs/CPU usage, business capabilities, coming up with integrated architectures supporting our SPS distributed channels working with our WI and brokerage partners. You will work closely with business sponsors, project managers, engineers and architects designing, implementing, testing, and deploying end to end technology solutions and moving applications out of the mainframe.
As a leader within the architecture team, you will work with architecture and application teams to help champion innovation, drive standardization, and deliver modern technology patterns across the stack for our customers' use. You will contribute to the product roadmap evolution in conjunction with business unit product goals and provide leadership in computing services, adoption of platforms and consolidation across our team's initiatives.
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The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Education - BS or MS required.
- 10+ years of industry experience in architecting mainframe systems and applications.
- AWS and/or Azure certification a plus
- Demonstrable ability understanding mainframe applications including CICS batch and online, DB2, VSAM
- Demonstrable ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions.
- Work closely with Product/Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation, and configuration.
- Background with multiple enterprise technologies
- Demonstrate knowledge of APIs, microservices architecture, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies with clear expertise in one or more of these areas.
- Working knowledge in all aspects of technical architecture (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization)
- Authoritative understanding of the agile development process and DevOps practices.
- Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.
- Ability to work both independently and with various levels of the organization, including technical and non-technical team members.
- Ensure technology decisions align with enterprise standards and strategy.
- Ability to provide technical leadership and solutions to agile teams.
- Critical problem solving and advanced troubleshooting to drive resolution to technical issues.
- Leads conceptual and abstract problem domains.
- Strong presentation, documentation, communication and influencing skills for working with less-technical business partners as well as technologists in IT leadership and implementation teams.
- Experience in networking across business units and outside the companies to optimize new reusable processes, patterns, and practices with world class results.
- Passion for knowing the latest on technology trends to adjust direction and get results.
- Willingness to experiment, innovate and seek resources to learn, grow and find solutions
- Financial industry experience is a plus
The Team
Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) provides benefits to Fidelity customers, employers and their employees, in a growing set of areas - Defined Contribution, Benefits Outsourcing & Payroll, Investment Products & Consulting and Defined Benefits.
As part of the WI Technology Architecture team, you will be key player in helping move us forward into our digital future and digital transformation of our business. As an Architect within Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI), you are responsible for establishing the strategic direction, setting standards and choosing technologies across WI. You will work closely with business partners and technology teams to understand business objectives and help define appropriate architecture direction for them. By working closely with Solution Architects and Agile teams, you will assess and ensure how proposed solutions to specific initiatives align with broader WI goals and strategies.
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Category:
Information Technology
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.