About the Opportunity

Title AMP - Associate Director, Investment Compliance Technology

Department Asset Management Platform

Location UK

Reports To AMP - Head of Trading, Compliance and Engineering and Production Services

Level 7

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. We do this by combining investment expertise, disciplined governance and resilient platforms that help our teams make great decisions for our clients. Join the Asset Management Platform (AMP) to lead the build-out of our multi-asset and systematic investment capability—designing and building applications from scratch and working hand in glove with investment teams to accelerate delivery of front-office functionality.

About your team

As a business, we are constantly evolving how we work to stay ahead of what our clients need and to deliver on our Forward 8 ambitions. FIL Platforms represents the next step in that journey - bringing together Asset Management Delivery, Enterprise Technology Services, and delivery and change teams from across the business into a single integrated structure, designed for clarity, speed, and impact.

That structure is organised around Platforms, each a focused unit of capability with a single accountable owner and within each Platform, a set of Value Streams and capabilities that translate strategic priorities into funded, sequenced delivery.

Your value stream/capability set sits at the heart of that model. It exists to connect our talent and expertise directly to the priorities that matter most, delivering greater impact for our clients with less duplication and fewer competing backlogs.

This role sits within the Asset Management Platform, within the Trading and Compliance Capability.

About your role

As the lead for Investment Compliance Technology, you will be responsible for the evolution, scalability, and operational resilience of the Investment Compliance capabilities in Charles River. You will own the strategy and roadmap, ensuring strengthened platform stability, resilience and unlocking growth potential.

Working in close partnership with compliance teams, the trading technology lead, and other technology leads across the Asset Management Platform, you will translate compliance objectives, operational priorities, and regulatory requirements into scalable, production-grade solutions. Through strong functional leadership and deep domain collaboration, you will drive capabilities that enhance front-office effectiveness, accelerate time-to-value, and align with AMP and broader firmwide technology architecture and standards.

You will align the target-state architecture and processes against the enterprise direction, driving execution against a clear and actionable roadmap with precision, pace, and accountability. This includes guiding critical design decisions, removing delivery impediments, and ensuring solutions are resilient, secure, well-governed, and maintainable at scale. As a builder-leader, you will align the team with enterprise standards, operating models, and ways of working, while remaining hands-on to accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives and critical capabilities.

You will lead the team and the compliance function through the migration from on-prem to SaaS Charles River. Bringing industry expertise and best practice to ensure that the design and processes are standardised, streamlined and aligned with trading requirements to best meet the needs of all users of Charles River.

Success in this role requires strong collaboration across Value Stream Owners, Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Leads, and Delivery teams within Asset Management. You will ensure priorities are aligned, dependencies are managed effectively, and delivery remains focused on measurable business outcomes. You will design solutions with extensibility and adaptability in mind, enabling evolving investment strategies, asset classes, and regulatory requirements to be supported with minimal friction and rapid adoption.

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Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the strategic roadmap for Investment Compliance Technology, ensuring alignment to investment, operational, and regulatory priorities
• Drive the design, delivery, and continuous evolution of scalable, resilient, and production-grade technology solutions that support Asset Management workflows.
• Embed enterprise practices and standards that enable high-quality execution and faster time-to-value.
• Build and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Investment Compliance to drive strategic decision making and future ready capabilities.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, and other Delivery Leads to translate business objectives into high-impact technology outcomes
• Track value and performance, establishing KPIs and ensuring data investments deliver tangible business benefits.

About you

The strongest candidates will have experience of leading an Investment Compliance Technology team on Charles River. Delivered large, complex programmes at scale and will be comfortable with the full breadth of this role - the commercial, the operational, the technical, and the people dimensions, complemented by deep experience in investment management and front-office technology environments. Experience of migrating Charles River to SaaS or operating Compliance on a CRD SaaS environment is an advantage.

• A proven track record of end-to-end delivery leadership in a large, complex organisation - ideally at Associate Director level
• Strong familiarity with agile operating models; alongside the ability to set a clear vision, define roadmaps and prioritise work across competing demands and uncertainty.
• The commercial acumen to own a business outcome and make the investment case for priorities, supported by experience managing vendor contributions and driving cost-effective delivery.
• Senior stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to push back on demand that does not serve the business or align with Industry best practice, with the ability to partner closely with Investment Compliance stakeholders and more broadly across Trading and Portfolio Construction stakeholders and translate investment problems into clear technical designs and prioritised backlogs.
• Strong connections within the industry, staying abreast of the latest developments in Charles River, the Investment Compliance business and peer companies.
• Experience building high-performing, engaged teams, including the ability to motivate, coach and develop teams and foster effective cross-functional partnerships.
• Strong experience leading software delivery in an investment management or capital markets environment, including a strong understanding of portfolio management and investment workflows

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’s 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.

Our Values

Integrity – Doing the right thing, every time and putting the client first.

Trust – Empowering each other to take the initiative and make good decisions.

Our Behaviours

Brave - Challenging the status quo, being accountable and speaking up.

Bold - Acting with conviction, encouraging diverse thinking and keeping things simple.

Curious - Learning to do new things in better ways and encouraging fresh thinking.

Compassionate - Having empathy, caring for colleagues, clients & community.