About The Opportunity
Job Type: PermanentApplication Deadline: 19 June 2026
Title
Enterprise Architecture – Head of Enterprise Platform & RKP
Department
Enterprise Architecture
Location
UK, India, Location Agnostic
Reports To
Head of Enterprise Architecture
Level
8
About Your Team
The Enterprise Architecture – Enterprise Platform and Record Keeping Platform (RKP) team is aligned to Enterprise Architecture within FIL Platforms. FIL Platforms brings together accountability for how Fidelity delivers key business capabilities end to end. It owns day‑to‑day performance and ongoing improvement, ensuring 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. It sets standards, principles and guidance prioritising resilient, adaptable, consistent and cost‑effective architecture through process and technology delivery.
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. Working closely with Platform, Engineering and Architecture leaders, you will influence prioritisation, solution design and investment trade‑offs, ensuring decisions reinforce standardisation, avoid duplication and maximise value from existing capabilities.
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 long‑term efficiency. You will also provide leadership on key initiatives and investments, identifying areas of divergence or risk and guiding corrective action.
Qualifications
- 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.
- Strong understanding of enterprise blueprints, target states and architectural patterns, with the ability to translate these into clear guidance for platforms and programmes.
- Experience embedding architectural consistency and promoting reuse of capabilities, patterns and services to avoid duplication and maximise enterprise value.
- Skilled in guiding technology investment decisions, balancing short‑term delivery needs with long‑term sustainability, scalability and cost efficiency.
- Ability to influence platform, engineering and product leaders to align strategies, roadmaps and solution designs with enterprise direction.
- Pragmatic, outcome‑focused application of architecture principles, ensuring guidance is actionable, adopted and supports real delivery outcomes without unnecessary complexity.
- Strong focus on driving alignment across platforms, enabling interoperability, reducing fragmentation and supporting simplification across the estate.
- Understanding of governance frameworks, architectural controls and risk management, ensuring deviations are identified early and addressed effectively.
- Data‑driven decision making, using insights and evidence to challenge, support and guide decisions, ensuring transparency and accountability in strategy and execution.
- Demonstrated leadership and credibility, engaging and challenging senior stakeholders, building trust while driving alignment to enterprise strategy.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, value your wellbeing and support your development, and provide flexible working arrangements to support a balanced lifestyle.
Compliance
As an international financial services organisation, we operate under international regulations, including FCA and/or PRA. This position is subject to Individual Conduct Rules (COCON) and related regulatory frameworks. Training is provided on COCON and its impact on employees. More information is available in the Employment Handbook.
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