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Director, Architecture

Fidelity Investments
Smithfield, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Aug 2025

About the role

Job Description:

Director, Data Architect

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) is seeking an experienced data architect to support the Workplace Platforms product area.  The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of data architecture principles and data strategy development.  In this role, you will be responsible for formulating and driving the data strategy to help drive modernization efforts from a data perspective.  You will also be working across business units and enterprise technology teams partnering with business leaders, architecture, and engineering to influence our core and common strategy and deliver these data capabilities.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • Education – BS or MS required

  • Demonstrated technology and personal leadership experience in architecting, designing, and building highly scalable transactional, analytical, and/or reporting applications

  • Ability to formulate data strategy, conceptual architecture and work with development teams to execute the strategy

  • Expertise in data management standard methodologies such as data integration, data security, data warehousing, data analytics, metadata management and data quality

  • Ability to evaluate, prototype and recommend emerging data technologies and platforms

  • Demonstrated experience developing enterprise applications and data solution in the cloud – Azure/AWS

  • Experience architecting large complex systems with large volume and high-performance requirements

  • Strong understanding of Data Modeling concepts including 3rd normal form and dimensional modeling

  • Expertise in relational database technologies such as Oracle and Snowflake; cloud native databases such as Yugabyte DB and Cockroach DB; and NoSQL databases such as Aerospike 

  • Expertise in programming languages such as SQL and Python, Java a plus

  • ETL experience on-prem and the cloud, preferred Python, Informatica and Snaplogic

  • Experience with data processing concepts such as Change Data Capture, Eventing, and Streaming technologies

  • Analytical reporting experience, preferably Snowflake and PowerBI

  • Understanding of cloud concepts, specifically resiliency, scalability, and performance from a data/database perspective

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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 every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

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