Head of Practice & Domain Enterprise Architecture

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent Application Deadline: 30 May 2025 Title: Head of Practice & Domain Enterprise Architecture Department: Enterprise Technology Services Location: Cannon Street 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 Technology team and feel like you’re part of something bigger. About your team The pace of change across our industry, as well as in Technology, is ever increasing. Fidelity continues to invest in modernising its Technology estate whilst evolving our operations and ways working. The Enterprise Architecture team plays an important role in serving the needs of Fidelity by enabling the Business, Technology and Data strategies to flourish and realise targeted business opportunities and value. Enterprise Architecture operates across portfolio delivery and enterprise domains, ensuring there is the right balance between what is sensible for the enterprise and programme specific needs. About your role Investment Solutions and Services (ISS) and Global Platform Solutions (GPS) are the two main business pillars within Fidelity, supported by the third pillar, Corporate Enablers (CE), in which Enterprise Architecture resides. In this role, you will lead the Practice & Domain function within Enterprise Architecture, governing and embedding the standards and frameworks by which Enterprise Architecture operates, in line with Fidelity Technology and Data strategies and establishing the enabling domain components required to standardise and simplify the organisation (for example Cloud, Infrastructure, and Integration). You will bring industry experience to automate our policies, embedding controls into our ways of working and standardise the artefacts required through the change lifecycle. You will also have the ability to influence stakeholders, bring modern thinking into the team and deliver tangible change. FIL is on a journey to become a highly adaptable organisation and is undergoing a substantial multi-year transformation of its operating model and Technology estate. A key objective within this transformation is to standardise frameworks to achieve a modern Architecture that offers a high level of scalability, adaptability, and resilience, which is the focus of this role. About you You are an experienced Architect who has led globally distributed Architecture or Technology teams, with experience in influencing senior stakeholders. You have experience of Enterprise Architecture, creating standards and frameworks by which an organisation operates. You are up to date on modern Architecture principles and technologies to provide the guidance and thought leadership this organisation requires to simplify, automate and embed architectural practises. 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 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.