What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Data Architect position at Fidelity Investments?
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Job Description
The Role
We are seeking a technology enthusiast who is looking for an ambitious and exciting opportunity as a Data Architect to help drive and influence the future of FIT’s capabilities. You work with solution architects, squad leaders and tribe leaders as well as application development teams to build our next generation, cloud enabled data ecosystem by enabling engineering teams to build highly scalable and resilient data products.
The Expertise And Skills You Bring
Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity's Institutional businesses. The FIT Architecture group is a comprehensive central architecture practice, leading IT strategy and architecture transformation, IT oversight and governance, promoting collaboration and open communication to facilitate better decision making at all levels. Technology changes lives. Our strategies and solutions make that happen.
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’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ 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. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
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.
Job Description
The Role
We are seeking a technology enthusiast who is looking for an ambitious and exciting opportunity as a Data Architect to help drive and influence the future of FIT’s capabilities. You work with solution architects, squad leaders and tribe leaders as well as application development teams to build our next generation, cloud enabled data ecosystem by enabling engineering teams to build highly scalable and resilient data products.
The Expertise And Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technology related field (e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
- Demonstrated technology and personal leadership experience in architecting, crafting and successfully building highly scalable data solutions.
- Proven experience in Relational, NoSql, Distributed databases, Data warehouse, Data Lake and Streaming technologies, Master Data Management, reporting and analytics
- Experience in Modern Data Architecture techniques and Cloud Data Technologies
- Expertise in evaluating, prototyping, and recommending emerging data technologies and platforms from open source or vendors.
- Enterprise scale expertise in data management standard methodologies such as data integration, data security, data warehousing, data analytics, metadata management and data quality.
- Extensive knowledge and experience in architecting modern data integration frameworks, highly scalable distributed systems using open source and emerging data architecture designs and patterns.
- Expert ability to analyze cost and performance in data solutions and recommend improvement for optimization.
- 10 years of data solution architecture, design and development delivery experience.
- Relevant certification in public cloud services (e.g., AWS Certified Solution) is highly desirable.
- Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban).
- Leadership skills to architect and design cloud first data solutions.
- Ability to collaborate and partner with business domain leads, data scientists, product owners, Enterprise architects and other functional leads to deliver world class data solutions.
- Ability to collaborate and partner with business domain leads, data scientists, product owners, enterprise architects and other functional leads to deliver world class data solutions.
- Strong execution skills in a fast-paced environment using agile methodologies.
- Experience in serverless data pipelines using Lambda, scheduled batch data pipelines using AWS Batch, Massive Parallel processing with AWS EMR, Stream processing using Kafka or Kinesis, ELT and micro-batches.
- Strong experience in software engineering (e.g., Java or Python ). Experience with batch processing framework is highly desirable.
- Expertise in architecture and development of enterprise scale data solutions.
- Mastery of relational database and NoSQL data stores
- Hands on experience with Snowflake.
- ETL experience on-prem and the cloud, preferred Python, Snaplogic (Nice to have)
- Nice to have general understanding of various integration patterns.
- Strong understanding of Data Modeling concepts including 3rd normal form and dimensional modeling
- Hands on experience with public cloud.
- Expertise in designing end to end data engineering solutions using a variety of data processing patterns.
- Experience in authoring and reviewing data architecture artifacts, deliverables, and processes to meet Fidelity's quality standards
- Experience with both technical and business sides of data architecture
Fidelity Institutional Technology Architecture provides strategic technology direction and architecture vision for Fidelity's Institutional businesses. The FIT Architecture group is a comprehensive central architecture practice, leading IT strategy and architecture transformation, IT oversight and governance, promoting collaboration and open communication to facilitate better decision making at all levels. Technology changes lives. Our strategies and solutions make that happen.
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’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ 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. Having the majority of our associates work onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most roles listed as Hybrid will require associates to work onsite all business days of every other week in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to roles listed as Remote or Onsite.
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.
