Solution Architect

**About the opportunity**:
**Department Description**

Fidelity is investing in its Enterprise Architecture team with the purpose to serve the needs of Fidelity by enabling the Business, Technology and Data strategies to flourish to realise the targeted business opportunities and value. Enterprise Architecture operates across the business and domain portfolios.

Overall, the function’s aim is to:

- Unite Business, Technology and Data strategies in business & technology roadmap
- Provide strategic thought-leadership for Fidelity
- Align innovation with strategy and business need
- Commission key strategy change and drive adoption.
- Ensure efficient use of change investment leading to maximum business value return
- Operate across technical, organisation and process challenges to drive design of enterprise solutions.
- Instigate and direct Delivery’s regulatory and compliance engagement, verifying success through governance checks
- Educate technology and business on solutions and technologies that are relevant for the strategies

**Purpose of the Role**

As a Solution Architect supporting the Workplace and Personal Financial Health businesses, you will play a key role working with business leaders, Product Owners and Technology teams within Fidelity International on a number of programs, to facilitate and lead the definition of viable Technology platforms and solutions. You will have a particular alignment to Fidelity International’s Workplace Investing business portfolio.

Working alongside the business proposition and the Technology product teams and utilising your experience of working with Financial Services technologies, modular service design and cloud architectures, you will need to design, define and deliver the end to end technology solution to service an increasingly global business proposition.

You will be required to effectively influence and assist key stakeholders, support multiple change initiatives and oversee and drive communication streams within and across change programmes. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with colleagues globally is also critical to success.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategize**
- Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.
- Understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state), and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive the organisation's targeted customer outcomes.
- Analyse the business-IT environment (run, grow and transform the business) to detect critical deficiencies, and recommend solutions for improvement (systems of record, differentiation and innovation).

**Lead & Communicate**
- Direct the governance activities associated with ensuring solutions architecture assurance and compliance.

**Innovate**
- Working with the business unit or domain architect, analyse the technology industry, competitors and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise.

**Architect**
- Manage and develop the architecture for a range of projects, working closely with domain architects that manage the architecture for a shared aspect of the architecture.
- Define necessary local principles, guidelines, standards and solution patterns to ensure solution decisions are aligned with the enterprise's future-state architecture vision.
- Facilitate the evaluation and selection of software product standards and services, as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
- Identify the organisational impact (for example, on skills, processes, structures or culture) and financial impact of the solutions architecture.

**Deliver**
- Document all solution architecture design and analysis work.
- Work closely with the PMO to ensure the execution of plans corresponds with what is being promised.
- Work with designers, engineers and developers in a global delivery model to ensure that low level designs are consistent with the specified architecture.

**Experience and Qualifications Required**
- Familiarity with software architecture (e.g. Zachman, TOGAF) and software development methodologies (e.g. Agile, DSDM, RUP, Waterfall)
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent analytical and technical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Knowledge of all components of an enterprise technical architecture
- Knowledge of financial models and budgeting
- Ability to work with low-level designers, engineers and developers in a global delivery model.

**About you**:
**About Fidelity International**:
We’ve been helping our clients plan and save for the futures they want for over 50 years. From more than 25 locations around the world, we provide investment services and retirement expertise to 2.5 million clients - everyone from central banks and fina