Director, Architecture

Job Description:

THE ROLE  

Fidelity Fund & Investment Operations (FFIO) provides accounting and investment management support services for Fidelity mutual funds and other retail and institutional investment products. FFIO is actively seeking an experienced architect to help us deliver our next generation cloud-based platforms.  

Are you someone with a strong technology leadership background with understanding of Crypto ecosystem? In this Solution Architect role, you will work on sophisticated and critical technology programs paramount to FFIO’s business operations related to various crypto based product launches and contributing to building strategic roadmap for the organization. This role will also enable you to engage in new and emerging technologies and play an active role in FFIO’s ongoing journey to crypto based products.  

In close partnership with business and IT partners, you will provide technical leadership and vision of the blockchain based ecosystem, authoring multi-year architecture roadmaps, and actively promoting opportunities to optimize, consolidate, reuse, and simplify. You will author impactful architecture related to crypto and blockchain based solutions that achieve business goals, align with FFIO technology strategy, and promote standard methodologies in design and architecture.  

THE EXPERTISE YOU HAVE AND THE SKILLS YOU BRING  

-  13-15+ years of experience in software design, architecture, and development  

-  Proven architecture and personal leadership experience  

-  Hands-on experience with blockchain based development  

-  Full understanding of Crypto and Blockchain ecosystem like staking, transaction expenses, token-pair trading, types of tokens, various types of blockchains, wallets etc.  

-  Smart Contract development experience with Solidity, Vyper or Rust and IDE like Remix  

-  Understanding of testing frameworks like Ganache, Chai etc.  

-  Hands-on expertise with architecture design tools  

-  Proven knowledge with Java and the Open-Source stack  

-  Foundational knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices  

-  Proven skills and demonstrated focus in logical and component architecture design and deployment  

-  Demonstrated experience in cloud technologies and crafting solutions that use AWS services such as EKS, RDS, S3, Batch, NLB, ALB, CloudWatch, ElastiCache and Lambda  

-  Validated knowledge of Relational databases (Oracle, Sybase, MySQL), good experience in event based and message driven orchestration architectures and API development  

-  Significant background in solving complex technology challenges  

-  Financial services background, e.g.– trade settlement, fund accounting, security pricing etc. would be a plus  

-  A degree in Computer Science or related field, Master’s degree preferred  

-  Our technology stack is diverse but largely based on open source and groundbreaking components (Java, Spring, ActiveMQ, Kubernetes, Docker). However, we are not bound by a particular technology and believe in applying the right technology depending on the challenge. As such, we are always exploring new technologies and new ways to continually provide customer value.  

-  Outstanding background in modern distributed technology and overall systems architecture  

-  Thought leadership in recommending strategic options and strategy formation  

-  Ability to direct and lead the work of a geographically diverse technical staff  

-  Ability to communicate and influence effectively with all levels within the organization  

-  Ability to nurture