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Job Description:The Role
The VP, Head of Storage Technology is responsible for the engineering, product management and operational availability of critical storage systems within the Fidelity environment. This environment enables all Fidelity applications and databases running in our on premises, private cloud environments and enables interoperability with our public cloud-based applications as well. We are seeking a technical leader to architect and oversee our enterprise-wide storage strategy. You will be the authority on hybrid cloud storage, balancing performance, cost, and compliance across on-premises environments and public cloud providers. You will champion the evolution of our block, file, and object storage capabilities, ensuring seamless data mobility and high availability.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Storage Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for integrating on-premises enterprise storage arrays with software defined and cloud-native storage services.
- Storage Engineering & Operations: Experience in overseeing technology for Block, File, Object and Backup/Recovery products, including software defined storage solutions, in an enterprise environment
- Data Lifecycle Management: Implement automated tiering policies to optimize costs without sacrificing performance.
- Scalability & Performance: Architect low-latency block storage for mission-critical databases and scalable file systems for distributed workloads.
- Operational Excellence: Crisis and problem management skills, Experience in supporting enterprise mission critical environments
- Economics: Provide a comprehensive model to improve, monitor and control storage-related efficiency and consumption
- Team Management: Oversight of a team of 50+ storage and software engineers around the globe
- Business Interface and Product leadership: Directly interacting with technology business partners and managing expectations, good interpersonal and team skills across all organization levels and multiple organizations
- Security & Compliance: Ensure data protection, encryption, and regulatory adherence across all hybrid environments.
- 10-15+ years’ experience in IT across a broad range of technologies, with 5-10 years specific experience in working in server and storage infrastructure technologies
- Expertise in Object (S3/Blob/CAS), Block (NVMe/SAN/iSCSI), and File (NFS/SMB/Parallel) storage protocols and backup/recovery products (CDP, snapshots, cloud-native, on-prem traditional).
- Proven experience in large-scale data migrations from legacy hardware to software defined storage in a private/public/hybrid cloud.
- Strong understanding of network storage performance (latency, throughput, bandwidth management)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) in a storage context.
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations in high-stakes infrastructure projects.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.
Skills Required
- 10-15+ years of experience in IT across a broad range of technologies
- 5-10 years of specific experience with server and storage infrastructure technologies
- Expertise in object storage protocols and technologies, including S3, Blob, and CAS
- Expertise in block storage protocols, including NVMe, SAN, and iSCSI
- Expertise in file storage protocols, including NFS, SMB, and parallel file systems
- Experience with backup and recovery products, including CDP, snapshots, cloud-native, and traditional on-premises solutions
- Proven experience with large-scale data migrations from legacy hardware to software-defined storage in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments
- Strong understanding of network storage performance, including latency, throughput, and bandwidth management
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible in a storage context
- Experience supporting enterprise mission-critical environments, including crisis and problem management
- Ability to manage stakeholder expectations during high-stakes infrastructure projects
- Experience overseeing a team of 50 or more storage and software engineers
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.
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