Department Enterprise Architecture
Location UK, India, Location Agnostic
Reports To Head of Enterprise Architecture
Level 8
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
The Enterprise Architecture- Enterprise Platform and Record Keeping Platform (RKP) team will be aligned to Enterprise Architecture within FIL Platforms.
FIL Platforms brings together accountability for how Fidelity delivers key business capabilities end to end. It owns both day to day performance and ongoing improvement, so work is done once, scaled across the firm, and focused on client and investment outcomes.
Enterprise Architecture serves the needs of Fidelity and its clients, by aligning Business, Process, and Technology strategies to achieve business value. To meet the demands of our current and future business models, Architecture set standards, principles and guidance that prioritises resilient, adaptable, consistent, and cost-effective architecture through process and technology delivery.
Enterprise Architecture Enterprise Platform and Record Keeping Platform (RKP) team will primarily advise on strategy and execution, guiding technology and investment decisions within the Asset Management platform to ensure consistency, reuse and long‑term enterprise coherence aligned to blueprints.
About your role
Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Architecture, you will lead and advise on strategy and execution across the platform estate, shaping technology and investment decisions to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles and long-term business outcomes. Your mandate is to guide platforms in making coherent, forward-looking choices, ensuring solutions are consistent, leverage reuse, and align to defined enterprise blueprints.
You will provide architectural direction that balances immediate delivery needs with sustainable, scalable outcomes across the organisation. You will work closely with Platform, Engineering, and Architecture leaders to influence prioritisation, solution design, and investment tradeoffs, ensuring decisions reinforce standardisation, avoid duplication, and maximise value from existing capabilities. This role brings together two of the largest functions in the FIL Platforms organisation which enable the rest of the platform's delivery, a strong leader is required to navigate and decide on the
A key focus of the role is to drive enterprise coherence- ensuring that platform strategies, architectures, and roadmaps align to a common set of principles, patterns, and target states, enabling interoperability, simplification, and longterm efficiency. You will also provide leadership on key initiatives and investments, identifying areas of divergence or risk, and guiding corrective action to maintain alignment with architectural guardrails and enterprise direction.
About you
Enterprise Architecture Advisory -Proven ability to advise senior stakeholders on platform strategy and execution, shaping technology and investment decisions in line with enterprise architecture principles and long‑term business outcomes.
Strategic Thinking & Blueprint Alignment - Strong understanding of enterprise blueprints, target states, and architectural patterns, with the ability to translate these into clear guidance for platforms and programmes.
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Driving Consistency & Reuse - Experience embedding architectural consistency and promoting reuse of capabilities, patterns, and services to avoid duplication and maximise enterprise value.
Investment & Trade-off Management - Skilled in guiding technology investment decisions, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term sustainability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
Cross-Platform Influence - Ability to influence platform, engineering, and product leaders to align strategies, roadmaps, and solution designs with enterprise direction.
Pragmatic & Outcome-Focused - Able to apply architecture principles in a practical way, ensuring guidance is actionable, adopted, and supports real delivery outcomes without unnecessary complexity.
Enterprise Coherence & Simplification - Strong focus on driving alignment across platforms, enabling interoperability, reducing fragmentation, and supporting simplification across the estate.
Governance & Risk Awareness - Understanding of governance frameworks, architectural controls, and risk management, ensuring deviations are identified early and addressed effectively.
Data-Driven Decision Making - Ability to use insights and evidence to challenge, support, and guide decisions, ensuring transparency and accountability in strategy and execution.
Leadership & Credibility - Demonstrated ability to engage and challenge senior stakeholders, building trust and credibility while driving alignment to enterprise strategy.
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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.
As an international financial services organisation, we are in-scope of international regulations in the way that we carry out our work. This position is involved in work that is regulated by the FCA and/or the PRA and their Individual Conduct Rules (COCON) apply to it, along with any other regulation. We provide training on COCON and how it affects our employees. More information about COCON can be found in the Employment Handbook.
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