Solution Architect - Gps (Senior)

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

About your team

Fidelity continues to invest 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

Overall, the functions aim is to:

• Unite Business, Technology and Data strategies into a technology roadmap
• Lead the transformation of Fidelity's technology estate
• Align innovation with strategy and business need
• Provide strategic thought-leadership for Fidelity
• 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 boundaries to drive design of enterprise solutions.
• Instigate and direct Delivery’s regulatory and compliance engagement, verifying success through governance checks
• Educate technology and business colleagues on solutions and technologies that are relevant for the strategies

About your role

As an experienced Solution Architect supporting the Workplace and Personal Financial Health businesses, you will play a key role working with senior 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 Personal Investing & Advisory 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, including sizing and supporting the prioritisation of change initiatives within the portfolio. A willingness to take on new challenges, collaborate and share knowledge freely with colleagues globally is also critical to success.

This role will face off to senior stakeholder in the organisation so the successful candidate will therefore be personable, articulate and have strong facilitation skills to help take initiatives forward.

About you

You will demonstrate integrity and build trust through being bold, brave, curious and compassionate. You will have demonstrable experience of the core skills and competencies expected of a Solution Architect

· 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, from C-suite leadership to business analysts and technical architects in a global delivery model

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

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

· Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, collaboration and facilitation

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

· Excellent planning and organizational skills. Proactive and self-organising with a “can-do” approach

A good understanding of considerations and concerns across all domains of an enterprise architecture
A good understanding of financial markets, products and organisationsis a benefit.