Head of Architecture, Digital Assets (Crypto)

About the role

The Role As Head of Architecture for Fidelity Digital Assets®, you will define and lead the architectural vision across custody, trading, and wallet platforms. Reporting to the Fidelity Digital Assets® CTO, this role combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership and cross-functional collaboration. You will lead a high-performing team of architects and partner closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align architectural direction with product strategy and deliver a resilient, secure, and scalable digital assets platform.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver secure, resilient, scalable production software platforms at significant user and transaction scale
• Lead a high-performing team of architects
• Partner closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Operate as a true player-coach, diving into complex technical challenges, unblocking critical paths, and helping resolve the toughest architectural and system design issues when needed
• Bring a strong sense of ownership for resiliency, availability, and customer impact, stepping in during critical production issues when your technical leadership can help restore service or reduce risk
• Mentor and develop a team of highly skilled architects
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, technical rigor, and pragmatic innovation that attracts, retains, and grows top technical talent

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 15+ 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, with a demonstrated ability to stay current through protocol research, developer communities, social channels, and broader industry discourse
• 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

Qualifications

• Technical certifications and professional affiliations are preferred but not required

Skills

• Technical credibility
• Sound judgment
• Clear communication
• Partnership

Benefits

Base salary range for this position is $140,000-285,000 USD per year. Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant experience, and other factors. Base salary is only part of the total compensation package. Depending on the position and eligibility requirements, the offer package may also include bonus or other variable compensation.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $140,000-285,000 USD per year.

Schedule

Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.