Technology
Director, Data Architecture
- Westlake, TX
- Boston, MA
- Merrimack, NH
- Smithfield, RI
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Job Description:
As a Director of Data Architecture in Digital Foundation Architecture, you 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 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 the cloud platforms, especially AWS is desired. Experience in delivering architecture artifacts and planning activities, communication materials and status updates.
- 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, proves out and incorporates new technologies and capabilities, staying ahead of business and product team needs. Learn Fidelity’s Cloud, Security and Data Privacy policies and guidelines and governance process and ensure alignment of these initiatives.
- 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. Defines patterns and standards for data platforms, design, engineering, and development.
- 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 relation 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 Snowflake, PostgreSQL, 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.
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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. 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.
Company overview
At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.
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What tech makes you tick?
Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way
401(k) with company match
Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave
Student loan assistance
Fidelity is invested in you
Committed to Professional Development
At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.
Licenses & Certifications
- Pursue excellence in new coding languages or tech applications across a broad range of technical paths.
- Tuition reimbursement for online or in-person course work in pursuit of new certifications.
Continuing Education & Training
- Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
- Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
- Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
- A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.
Mentoring
- Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
- Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
- An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
- Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.
Web-Based Learning
- Online, video-based training that covers a broad range of technology, leadership, and management topics.
- Access to thousands of the latest and most relevant business books – all summarized in just a few pages.
- Train from your desk or the comfort of your home.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
"Fidelity believes in, and is committed to, fair and equitable treatment for every associate and customer, and to creating a safe and respectful environment, in which everyone is treated with kindness, compassion and respect." Abby Johnson | Chairman and CEO Fidelity Investments
At Fidelity, we are committed to building an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging that will attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce.
Fidelity’s ten affinity groups are self-organized groups of employees with common interests in areas such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, or who share similar interests based on similar sets of experiences.
These Employee Resource Groups and Special Interest Groups are models of inclusion for Fidelity. They’re also a powerful form of engagement and development and can provide a pathway to visible leadership roles. Our affinity groups make a large contribution on the business, helping to ensure our products and services are delivered in a welcoming and equitable environment.
- Over 22K employees participate in an affinity group.
- Over 1,400 affinity group members volunteered for Fidelity Cares in 2020.
- 74% increase in affinity group memberships over the last three years.
Giving Back to Our Communities
Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.
Fidelity Cares
- Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
- Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
- Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
- More than 12,000 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
- Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.
Fidelity Charitable®
- Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
- Helped deliver $7.3 billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2019.
- Supported more than 300,000 unique charities around the world.
- Since its inception, more than $42 billion has been given to public charities.
