About the Opportunity

Job Description

Title                 Enterprise Architect (AMP)                                

Department      Enterprise Architecture

Location          London / Dublin

Reports To       Head of AMP Architecture

Level                7

About Fidelity International

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we.  We are proud of our inclusive culture and encourage applications from the widest mix of talent, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social background and more.

As a flexible employer, we trust our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our clients and our business. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond.

About your team

The AMP Enterprise Architecture team is aligned to Enterprise Architecture within FIL Platforms. FIL Platforms brings together accountability for how Fidelity delivers key business capabilities end to end.It owns both day to day performance and ongoing improvement, so work is done once, scaled across the firm, and focused on client and investment outcomes.

Enterprise Architecture serves the needs of Fidelity and its clients, by aligning Business, Process, and Technology strategies to achieve business value. To meet the demands of our current and future business models, Architecture set standards, principles and guidance that prioritises resilient, adaptable, consistent, and cost-effective architecture through process and technology delivery.

About your role
Purpose of the Role

As an Enterprise Architect for AMP you will provide technical expertise to both the Business and Technology stakeholders in order to direct the investment and transformation from an architecture perspective to help deliver the strategic AMP initiatives in line with the Business, Technology and Data strategies. This includes working with senior business stakeholders to understand and develop their longer term vision, aligning roadmaps to this, developing technology roadmaps that align to both the business vision as well as technology objectives, providing guidance on M&A activity.

Key Responsibilities

Architect

·         Identify the current state of how technology is used in the organisation, what technologies are being used and how they are deployed along with the business value the technology is providing.

·         Work with stakeholders to 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.

·         Work as part of the team in proposing and gaining agreement for target application architecture for AMP that includes the articulation of a clear transformation roadmap.

·         Manage key business stakeholders to achieve consensus agreement to vision and roadmap.

·         Ensure that technology solutions to business problems are both pragmatic and supportive of the Global strategic architecture direction.

·         Develop architectures that are aligned to business goals, drivers, and strategies; drawing on knowledge of current and possible future business trends, policies and practices and business competition landscape. 

·         Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies.

Strategize

·         Maintain a forward-looking perspective on emerging technology developments and their relevance to Business and Technology Strategies.

·         Monitor technology developments to ensure that the organisation is effectively positioned to respond to and leverage opportunities that enhance competitive position through the effective application of technology to the business.

·         Develop a roadmap for the evolution of the enterprise application portfolio from future to current state

Lead & Communicate

·         Be an advisor to the business and technology leads on AMP architecture and strategy.

·         Proactively communicate decisions, roadmap, insight to the technology and business colleagues.

·         Proactively input into and provide architectural leadership in governance forums.

Innovate

·         Participate in the development of new concepts to support business strategy and provide recommendations to leverage technology for competitive advantage, internal efficiency and improved service.

·         Participate in managing vendor relationships on new and existing products, evaluating usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations.

Collaborate

·         Architecture’s success will depend on close collaboration with many other teams in Fidelity, including Engineering, Data, Delivery, Change, Security and Business teams

Deliver

·         Design and deliver the transformation of the AMP technology estate, together with the Technology and Business teams. 

·         Translate high level business architecture into technology architectures that align to global strategies, simplify the existing architecture, deliver cost saving opportunities and, where appropriate, reusable services.

About you

Experience and Qualifications Required

·         Designed & delivered large transformation programme from legacy to new technology

·         Extensive experience in the asset management across Investment Management, operations and distribution business

·         Experience working with senior business stakeholers

·         Skilled in the architecture, design and implementation of complex technology solutions

·         Strong communication skills with different types and levels of stakeholders both internal and external.

·         Effective leadership skills including negotiation, conflict resolution, influencing, bridge-building and political astuteness

·         Hands-on experience managing end-to-end systems development from customer specifications through to deployment

·         Experience of managing technology driven business process change

·         The ability to convey complex, abstract technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

·         A good understanding of financial markets, products and organisations

·         Excellent and resourceful problem-solving skills, adaptable with a willingness to learn

·         Proactive and self-organising with a “can-do” approach

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.