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Vice President, Architecture

Fidelity

Fidelity

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Durham, NC, USA · Merrimack, NH, USA · Jersey City, NJ, USA
USD 124k-262k / year
Posted on May 31, 2025

Job Description:

As Vice President, Domain Architect within Fidelity Institutional’s Capital Markets & Investment Products Technology (CMIPT) organization, you will define and support the architectural strategy for some of the most complex and high-impact areas of the business. You’ll design scalable, secure, and forward-looking technology solutions that align with long-term goals, spanning business applications, cloud infrastructure, and emerging AI capabilities to drive innovation and growth.

Fidelity Institutional delivers investment, trading, and technology solutions to institutional clients, including registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and institutional investors. Our offerings include proprietary investment products—such as alternative investments and active ETFs—distributed through platforms like FundsNetwork and Wealth Advisor Solutions. We also provide institutional-grade equity and fixed income trading platforms, prime brokerage, and securities lending services, all supported by robust data and analytics.

In this role, you’ll bring deep technical and business domain expertise, translating strategy into actionable IT capabilities. You’ll lead architectural governance, promote enterprise standards, and assess emerging technologies to shape future-ready solutions. Strong communication skills and the ability to influence across teams are essential, as is a pragmatic approach to balancing innovation with execution.

While not required, experience in specialized financial domains can enhance your impact. Backgrounds in prime brokerage, securities lending, fixed income trading, or alternative investment distribution offer valuable insights into designing agile, data-driven, and compliant systems. However, a commitment to continuous learning is equally valued.

Your success will be defined by your ability to lead with clarity, foster cross-functional alignment, and deliver practical, scalable solutions. As a visible leader and advocate for architectural excellence, you’ll help elevate solution architecture practices within CMIPT and across Fidelity.

The Expertise You Have

  • Education – BS or MS required
  • Experience leading technical architects, technology governance, and complex solution design
  • 12+ years of experience in building distributed systems and applications and cloud database technologies
  • Experience with prime brokerage services, including onboarding, margin financing, risk management, and reporting
  • Ability to design and implement solutions that enhance operational efficiency and client experience in prime brokerage
  • Knowledge of securities lending operations, including collateral management, loan negotiation, and regulatory compliance
  • Skilled in architecting integrated systems that optimize securities lending workflows
  • Familiarity with fixed income products, trading strategies, and market dynamics
  • Experience developing trading platforms with real-time analytics capabilities
  • Understanding of alternative investment product distribution (e.g., hedge funds, private credit/equity, real estate)
  • Skill in analyzing business direction and challenges, understanding long-term vision and risk, and guiding strategic technical solutions
  • Experience collaborating with product managers, architects, and technical leads to evaluate, recommend, and configure technologies aligned with long-term strategy
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships across teams and constructively challenge decisions to support strategic goals
  • Financial industry experience preferred, particularly within brokerage

The Skills You Bring

  • Apply a pragmatic design approach with a practical, solution-oriented mindset
  • Maintain a strong focus on delivery and execution excellence
  • Leverage process and governance to drive rapid, secure, and sound solutioning
  • Act as a strong partner and collaborator, enabling solution thinking across teams
  • Represent Solution Architecture for the Capital Markets & Investment Products Technology (CMIPT) teams
  • Champion the work of solution architects within CMIPT and across the broader Fidelity organization
  • Demonstrate passion for technology and a proactive approach to tackling new challenges
  • Formulate strategic direction and communicate it effectively to drive organization-wide alignment and adoption
  • Exhibit strong influence and persuasion skills, while remaining open to feedback and course correction
  • Possess a solid understanding of cloud services and their application in end-to-end integration patterns
  • Bring knowledge of the clearing and custody business (preferred)
  • Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent written and verbal communication
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal, negotiation, and influencing skills across all organizational levels
  • Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable technology solutions
  • Analyze business direction and challenges to develop strategic, risk-aware technical guidance
  • Collaborate closely with product and application teams on technology evaluation, selection, and configuration

The Value You Deliver

  • Drive end-to-end solution delivery by aligning architecture with business priorities and ensuring scalable, secure, and high-performing implementations
  • Support and coach a team of solution architects to ensure architectural consistency and excellence across Capital Markets & Investment Products Technology (CMIPT) domain
  • Lead the design and execution of complex initiatives, translating strategic goals into actionable technical roadmaps and deliverables
  • Accelerate time-to-value by leveraging governance, reusable patterns, and agile practices to enable rapid and sound solutioning
  • Partner across teams to ensure architectural alignment, remove delivery roadblocks, and support cross-functional execution at scale
  • Continuously improve delivery outcomes by mentoring teams, promoting architectural best practices, and ensuring solutions are built for long-term success
The base salary range for this position is $124,000-$262,000 per year.

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

Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

We offer a wide range of benefits to meet your evolving needs and help you live your best life at work and at home. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support, market-leading retirement, generous paid time off and parental leave, charitable giving employee match program, and educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career. Note, the application window closes when the position is filled or unposted.

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.

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.

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Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments

At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.

Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.

These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.

  • Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
  • Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
  • 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.

Giving Back to Our Communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
  • Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.

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