Job Description:
The role
As a Director of Data Architecture in Digital Foundation Architecture, you will collaborate and build positive relationships with business leads and technology product teams across business units, driving our data architectures and technology patterns for key, investment-oriented, data management business capabilities. You will blend deep expertise and experience in engineering, technical design, systems, solutions focused on the server side, and database management with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineering associates.
You will bring industry standard methodologies, perform research on industry trends, and lead tool evaluation efforts including POC. In an agile structure, you will partner with other Fidelity business, architecture, and product leaders to establish the standards for your area and influence the strategic decisions, solution development, and work priorities based on your expertise and experience.
We seek a hard-working leader that can influence engineers and product leaders, a collaborator with Data Architecture expertise who is willing to learn fast, adapt well to changing requirements, and work with multi-functional teams to deliver governed common data management capabilities.
Successful candidates would possess the following:
- Depth of knowledge in architecture and an ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions. Experience in a wide array of architecture patterns including architecting highly performant database systems, event-driven architectures, APIs, data architecture, and security architectures. Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and cloud platforms, especially AWS, is desired.
- Deep technical foundation: Drives the data architecture technology vision to support the next generation of investment data platform. Knowledge of the financial industry and data management concepts is a plus.
- Passionate about technology and applying it to solve intricate challenges. Proactively investigate, prove out, and incorporate new technologies and capabilities, staying ahead of business and product team needs.
- Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing data strategies; aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing others to gain consensus on and adopt and implement accordingly.
- Collaborate with architect communities across Fidelity Data Architecture and in cross-business unit working teams at the enterprise level. Ability to proactively seek out, collaborate, and establish relationships with critical partners to ensure integration, coordination & execution of work.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
- Passion for working with leading cloud-based data technologies, ETL/ELT tools, and analytic solutions to provide innovative and well-architected solutions.
- Business and technical curiosity, working with others to cultivate ideas and produce creative solutions to difficult problems while making sensible choices balancing design and delivery.
- Proficiency at understanding enterprise data architecture concepts, data modeling, lineage, data governance, and design techniques.
- Expert knowledge and experience in one or more relational database platforms (Oracle, Postgres, Snowflake), Graph databases (Neo4J), and NoSQL database platforms.
- Significant experience working in sophisticated data environments in an engineering, design, and architecture capacity; including enterprise warehouses, marts, operational stores, and data lakes.
- Experience in collaborating with data engineering & database administrators.
- Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, influence, and partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable robust data solutions.
- Leads, mentors, and provides design and architecture for delivery and DBA teams.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL platforms is a plus.
- Solid experience in driving Automation, Data Quality Security, and Governance practices.
- Current on event processing, Data API, and recent emerging data technologies.
- A strong influencer who can integrate effectively into the culture, combining facilitation skills with a results orientation to deliver excellence and execution.
- Demonstrated organizational savvy and maturity for working effectively across different organizational units and business groups.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experienced ability to evaluate, prototype, and recommend emerging Cloud data technologies and platforms from open source or vendors.
Certifications:
Company Overview
Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients' money.
Join Us
At Fidelity, you will find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts people's lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a
Glassdoor Employees Choice Award
, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don't need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you've always imagined.
Fidelity's hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office.
At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation, detailed in this document, and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations, and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.
We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at
fidelitycareers.com
.
Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop, and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.
Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to
accommodations@fmr.com
.
About the Company:
Fidelity TalentSource LLC
Fidelity TalentSource, formerly Veritude, is the in-house temporary staffing provider for Fidelity Investments, one of the largest and most diversified global financial services firms in the industry. We recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds, including technology and customer service, to fill assignments across Fidelity’s U.S.-based regional and investor center locations. If you would like to experience Fidelity’s diverse and inclusive workplace while expanding your skillset and developing your professional network, consider a role with Fidelity TalentSource.
Company Size:
2,500 to 4,999 employees
Industry:
Staffing/Employment Agencies
Founded:
1986
Website:
https://www.fidelitytalentsource.com/
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