Director, Data Architecture

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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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.