Vice President, Architecture

Vice President, Architecture

Fidelity Investments is seeking a Vice President of Architecture to lead the strategic direction of security architecture for institutional wealth management services. The role involves driving architecture across the organization, aligning with enterprise modernisation initiatives, cloud strategy, and technology blueprints.

• Formulate and drive tactical and strategic security architecture for the most critical and sophisticated systems across all facets of Fidelity Institutional.
• Define patterns and standard methodologies for cloud and security design and development.
• Review and assure governance of security application standards for Institutional Wealth Management Services.
• Provide expertise to project teams on design and integration across the technology stack (security, cloud, Dev Ops, etc.).
• Make authoritative decisions on technical issues, project policies, standards, and strategies.
• Establish and track metrics and KPIs that demonstrate measurable outcomes for security initiatives (e.g., vulnerability reduction, compliance adherence).
• Anticipate major industry trends and implement future needs within Fidelity’s environment.
• Provide leadership to Proof of Concepts (POCs) for assessment of technical and business benefits.
• Build strong relationships with enterprise architecture, risk management, and compliance teams to align security strategy with business goals.
• Engage across enterprise and business units on critical security topics and present recommendations to the Enterprise Technical Architecture Group (TAG).

• Minimum 15 years of industry experience in security architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions.
• Expertise in application security implementations and standard methodologies; certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CSIM, and CCSP required.
• Extensive knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography/key management, access controls, and security protocols (e.g., MFA, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, API security, PDP, PEPs).
• Proficiency in Dev Sec Ops , AWS security, and secure code development.
• Experience steering strategy for and implementing cloud enterprise solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
• Extensive experience in tool selection and vendor management.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with Agile delivery.
• Financial industry experience required.
• Thought leadership in technology selection and strategy formation with a focus on security.
• Excellent presentation, documentation, communication, and influencing skills for technology direction in a business context.

Institutional Wealth Management Services (IWMS) Security Architecture team improves security for customers by providing defined security patterns, strategies, and governance to maintain an edge over competitors and integrating security into business processes.

• Executive

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (weekdays) in a Fidelity office. Remote or fully onsite roles are not applicable.