VP Architecture Security
Fidelity Investments is a privately held, Boston-headquartered financial services company providing investing, trading, retirement, wealth management, brokerage, workplace benefits, custody and clearing, and digital-asset services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Fidelity Investments
Fidelity serves individual investors, employers, wealth-management firms, institutions, innovators, and charitable donors through diversified financial-services businesses. Current offerings include brokerage and trading, mutual funds and exchange-traded products, retirement and workplace savings, financial planning and advice, wealth management, institutional custody and clearing, and crypto/digital-asset products.
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About the Role
You will define and drive enterprise identity security architecture, standards, patterns, and guidelines. You will create security blueprints, assess identity threats and risks, guide integrations across cloud and application environments, influence roadmaps, and lead security architecture initiatives and engineering teams.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of experience architecting distributed systems and applications.
- Expertise in cloud, web, APIs, and modern architecture.
- Enterprise identity strategy and architecture experience.
- Security architecture and governance-control experience.
- Software engineering and continuous delivery foundation.
- Leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- CISSP, CISA, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Define secure identity architecture, designs, patterns, standards, and guidelines.
- Develop identity strategy and architecture across workforce, customer, partner, machine, and AI-agent identities.
- Define identity data, identifier, identity-sharing, and authoritative-source strategies.
- Establish security architecture patterns and governance controls for AI agents, machine identities, service accounts, workloads, and APIs.
- Perform identity threat modeling and risk assessments.
- Map identity security-control requirements to regulatory, audit, and policy expectations.
- Review exceptions, compensating controls, and remediation plans.
- Provide roadmap input for IAM, PAM, IGA, CIAM, authorization, secrets management, certificate management, and cloud entitlement management.
- Create reusable architecture patterns, guardrails, and decision records.
- Lead security architecture efforts and guide engineering teams.
Benefits
- Fully paid parental leave.
- On-site health and wellness centers.