Principal Architect at Fidelity Investments

Job Description:

The Role 

As a Principal, Platform Architecture for Digital Assets, you will be responsible for designing and building software for projects spanning multiple engineering groups at Fidelity Digital Assets. This is a hands-on role where you will write code and set technical direction. You will be responsible for turning requirements into service designs and will collaborate with architects across other product areas and business units to drive overall architecture of the Fidelity Digital Assets platform.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring 

• Drive technology strategy and architecture across a range of new and existing capabilities in a business unit.  
• Provide leadership to product teams through architecture designs, adoption of emerging standards, and collaboration with key partners.  
• Operate at a product area level providing technical leadership and architecture, which support programs and projects for business partners.  
• Requires collaboration and interaction opportunities with architects across the firm in forums as well as external to Fidelity (e.g. industry consortia and solution/vendor interactions).
• Batchelor's degree in computer science
• 8+ years of software engineering experience 
• Production experience with Java and Springboot.
• Experience designing and building large scale production distributed systems with focus on customer experience, scale, resilience and performance
• Proficient in principles of API design and its application using REST.
• Experience with reactive and functional programming concepts
• Familiarity with AWS services architecture and solution patterns is preferred
• Exposure to infrastructure as code, test automation, CI/CD, and containerization 
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at a given time 
• Ability to collaborate stake holders to understand business requirement
• Experience in managing technology vendor relationships

The Team 

Fidelity Digital Assets, a Fidelity Investments Company, is developing a full-service enterprise-grade platform for storing, trading, and servicing digital assets, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. 

Fidelity Digital Assets embraces an entrepreneurial culture and startup mindset while serving as one of the most innovative business units within Fidelity Investments. Our global, diverse team of hundreds of forward-thinking professionals lead with agility and creativity to build solutions that bridge the gap between traditional institutional investors and their exposure to digital assets. The firm’s tenure and experience across multiple business lines present our employees with unprecedented access to knowledge, technology, and resources that help our team reshape the future of finance.  

Within Fidelity Digital Assets, the Architecture Team is responsible for the technical vision across the organization. The team works with both technology and business teams to design secure, scalable, resilient cloud based services while ensuring that all user requirements are met. 

Certifications:

Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

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 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 all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.

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, detailed in this document, 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.

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.