The Head of Architecture for Fidelity Digital Assets will define and lead the architectural vision across custody, trading, and wallet platforms. This hands-on leadership role involves guiding a high-performing team of architects while collaborating closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders. The position requires a strong sense of ownership for the resiliency and availability of a mission-critical digital assets platform. The Architecture Team is responsible for designing secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-based services that meet user requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 15 plus years of software development experience, including significant architecture and leadership responsibility
• Proven track record defining and delivering secure, resilient, scalable production software platforms at significant user and transaction scale
• Deep software architecture expertise across distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, APIs, data, security, reliability, and operational excellence
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, mentor, and retain top technical talent
• Deep technical familiarity and production experience with at least one public blockchain protocol
• Strong understanding of cryptocurrencies, public blockchain protocols, and the evolving digital assets ecosystem
• Experience designing highly available, fault-tolerant, multi-region systems with strong resiliency and operational continuity in mission-critical 24x7 environments
• Understanding of architectures supporting low-latency trading systems
• Strong ownership mindset and experience providing technical leadership during critical production events or high-severity incidents
• Ability to influence engineering leaders and teams through technical credibility, sound judgment, clear communication, and partnership
• Experience collaborating with senior leadership, product, engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills

• Define and lead the architectural vision across custody, trading, and wallet platforms.
• Lead a high-performing team of architects while collaborating with engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Set standards and guide key design decisions for the architecture organization.
• Dive into complex technical challenges and unblock critical paths as needed.
• Mentor and develop a team of highly skilled architects.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, technical rigor, and pragmatic innovation.
• Ensure the resiliency and availability of the digital assets platform.
• Provide technical leadership during critical production issues.

• Fidelity offers competitive compensation, annual bonuses, retirement contributions, comprehensive healthcare coverage, parental leave, tuition assistance, wellness programs, and extensive professional development opportunities.