Job title: Director – Architecture
The Director – Architecture associate will be responsible for designing and architecting applications within the AM portfolio.
Purpose of This Role
- Design highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud-based solutions for applications
- Drive innovation through prototyping and solution recommendations for cloud-native and AI-powered applications
- Collaborate with key partners to adopt emerging technologies, including AI/ML, Generative AI, and intelligent automation
The associate is expected to have hands-on experience architecting solutions involving web services, event-driven patterns, and distributed computing on public cloud platforms. This role also requires strong technical expertise in AWS Cloud, AI/ML, Generative AI, containers, and UI frameworks. Exposure to building AI-driven solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agent-based architectures is highly desirable.
The Value You Deliver
- Demonstrated leadership in architecting, designing, and building highly scalable and intelligent applications
- Enterprise-scale expertise in distributed computing and modern AI-driven architecture patterns
- Extensive experience architecting modern systems using open-source frameworks and emerging AI technologies
- Strong experience building cloud-native (e.g., AWS) applications and integrating AI/ML and Gen AI capabilities
- Proven ability to evaluate, prototype, and recommend open-source, vendor technologies, and AI platforms
- Drive technology leadership by participating in cross-company initiatives, including AI transformation efforts
- Strong communication and influencing skills to collaborate effectively with peers and stakeholders
- Solid experience with Agile methodologies (Kanban and Scrum)
The Skills That Are Key to This Role
- Strong hands-on experience in application architecture
- Hands-on experience designing and developing applications in cloud ecosystems
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Required Technical Skill Set
- Application architecture using Java and/or Python
- Working knowledge of AWS Cloud and Kubernetes
- Working experience in designing apps with High Performance distributed architecture
- Experience architecting AI/ML use cases, including understanding of ML lifecycle and model deployment
- Working knowledge of Generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, and LLM-based application integration
- Understanding of AI agent frameworks and orchestration patterns for building autonomous or semi-autonomous systems
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications while adhering to responsible AI and governance practices
- AWS or Kubernetes certifications are a plus
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Asset Management Technology (AM Tech) delivers innovative, scalable, industry-leading investment tools that enable Fidelity’s Investment & Asset Management business to maintain a competitive global advantage.
AM Tech plays a critical role in shaping strategic direction and shares accountability for achieving business goals. It is a global organization with teams in the United States, London, India, and Ireland, supporting multiple business functions such as Portfolio Management, Research, and Trading.
Expertise We’re Looking For
- BE / MCA
- 14+ years of industry experience
Location: Bangalore (Manyata / EGL)
Shift Timings: 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Engineering or MCA degree
- 14+ years of industry experience
- Hands-on application architecture experience
- Experience designing and developing applications in cloud ecosystems
- Application architecture experience using Java and/or Python
- Working knowledge of AWS Cloud and Kubernetes
- Experience designing high-performance distributed architectures
- Experience architecting AI/ML use cases, including ML lifecycle and model deployment
- Working knowledge of Generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, and LLM application integration
- Understanding of AI agent frameworks and orchestration patterns
- Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise applications with responsible AI and governance practices
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
- AWS or Kubernetes certification
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
Fidelity Investments Insights
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
