Lead Data Architect - ISS

About the OpportunityJob Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 30 November 2024

Title                 Lead Data Architect - ISS

Department      Enterprise Technology Services

Location          London

Reports To       Head of ISS Enterprise Architecture

Level               

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 Enterprise Architecture Team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

(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.

Investment Services and Solutions is one of the main business pillars and investment areas within Fidelity. It is going through a phase of rapid and substantial transformation of its business model as well as the Technology estate.

The ISS Enterprise Architecture team is responsible for the Business, Information and Technology architecture across the Investment Services and solutions business. As the Lead Portfolio Architect, you will be responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership in developing, implementing and managing our ISS wide technology architecture, ensuring alignment with business and technology objectives, scalability, security and efficiency.

About your role
Investment Services and Solutions (ISS) is one of the main business pillars and investment areas within Fidelity. It is going through a phase of the rapid and substantial transformation of its business model as well as the Technology estate.

A key component of the transformation is our data architecture. We have a number of new technologies that we are implementing, including Finbourne LUSID and Snowflake, and we need to ensure that all components of our architecture work in unison.

As the Lead Data Architect within the ISS Enterprise Architecture team, you will provide leadership to both business and technology stakeholders and a strategy for our data architecture.

About you

You will:

•     Have worked within the asset management industry, and be able to show leadership experience and data architecture skills in previous roles.

•     Have a blend of data modelling, data architecture, data governance and technical data skills balance, including an understanding of different vendor offerings (e.g databases, integration, metadata tools), their constraints, advantages, and appropriate usages, and how to best integrate them for optimal business benefit.

•     Be able to lead both a technical and functional audience in aligning to a vision, and support other teams in achieving its goals across different parts of the organisation.

•     Be able to understand, guide and solve complex functional, technical and architectural issues around data.

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.