Director, Data Architecture

Fidelity Investments - Westlake, OH

Full-time - Senior

Westlake, OH

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Director of Data Architecture at Fidelity Investments is responsible for leading the data architecture initiatives within the Digital Foundation Architecture team. This role involves collaborating with business leads and technology product teams to drive data architectures and technology patterns for investment-oriented data management capabilities. The director will leverage their expertise in engineering, technical design, and database management while mentoring engineering associates and influencing strategic decisions across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business leads and technology product teams to drive data architectures and technology patterns.
• Establish standards for data architecture and influence strategic decisions based on expertise.
• Perform research on industry trends and lead tool evaluation efforts, including proof of concepts.
• Define new and evolve existing data strategies, aligning with enterprise direction.
• Mentor and influence engineering and product teams to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Drive the data architecture technology vision to support the next generation of investment data platform.
• Evaluate, prototype, and recommend emerging cloud data technologies and platforms.

Requirements

• Depth of knowledge in architecture and ability to translate business objectives into technology solutions.
• Experience in architecting highly performant database systems, event-driven architectures, and APIs.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, especially AWS.
• Proficiency in enterprise data architecture concepts, data modeling, lineage, and data governance.
• Expert knowledge in relational database platforms (Oracle, Postgres, Snowflake), Graph databases (Neo4J), and NoSQL platforms.
• Significant experience in sophisticated data environments including enterprise warehouses and data lakes.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in delivering architecture artifacts and planning activities.
• Knowledge of the financial industry and data management concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL platforms.

Benefits

• Flexible benefits that support career stages.
• Recognition as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024.