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Director, Architecture

Fidelity

Director of Architecture Location: Galway The Role We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Architect to join Asset Management Technology’s Architecture group supporting Model Management within the Strategic Advisors business. The candidate should possess a deep technical background in developing and deploying web services, web applications, messaging and streaming producer/consumer services, and designing and implementing highly scalable, low-latency complex systems.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams to develop and maintain a scalable, secure, and high-performing architecture for Asset Management systems aligned with business strategy.
  • Drive innovation and adoption of emerging technologies to improve system architecture and capabilities.
  • Conduct hands-on POCs and provide proven migration paths for product teams to advance our roadmap Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers, promoting good practices and maintaining code quality standards.
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
  • Work closely with IT product owners and business users to understand their needs and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Proactively communicate architectural vision, decisions, and impacts to product stakeholders.
  • Maintain comprehensive, up-to-date architecture documentation and share knowledge across IT and business teams.

Requirements

  • You Bring Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Depth of knowledge in architecture and an ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions.
  • Experience in a wide array of architecture patterns including architecting highly performant systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, data architecture and security architectures.
  • Deep experience in architecting, designing & building highly scalable, low-latency applications Organizational savvy and maturity, ability to work effectively across different organizational units and business groups.
  • Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing strategies, aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing technology partners to adopt and implement accordingly.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners.
  • Passion and curiosity to work with others to foster ideas and produce creative solutions to intricate problems while making smart choices balancing design and delivery.
  • Passion for staying current on technology trends to shift direction and get results.
  • Demonstrated desire and skill to turn concept and theory into pragmatic implementations by performing end-to-end hands-on proofs of concept, providing concrete solutions and clear migration plans to enable adoption.
  • Experience of developing applications with Java & SpringBoot Experience with working with API’s (Both API Development & API Consumption) Experience in designing, developing, and deploying applications on AWS.
  • Experience with a broad range of AWS services, including compute, containers, databases, analytics, and security.
  • Hands-on experience with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices The Team You will be a member of the Asset Management Architecture team that provides the architecture direction, decisions and solutions for Asset Management.
  • Throughout the implementation of the proposed solutions, you will work closely with the product and engineering teams for the Technology Foundations and other technology teams.
  • You will collaborate with others in Asset Management innovative solutions and strategies.

Category

Information Technology