Director of Data Solutions Architecture, Fidelity Investments
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AWS
Snowflake
Oracle
Next
Expert level
Boston
Financial services and investment resources
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Financial services and investment resources
1001+ employees
FintechB2BInvestingTradingSaaS
Job no longer available
Salary not provided
AWS
Snowflake
Oracle
Next
Expert level
Boston
1001+ employees
FintechB2BInvestingTradingSaaS
Company mission
To strengthen the financial well-being of our clients.
Role
Who you are
- We seek a hard-working leader, 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 platform capabilities and adoption
- 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
- Knowledge of the financial industry and data management concepts is a plus
- Passionate about technology and applying it to solve intricate challenges
- Demonstrated ability in defining new and/or evolving existing data strategies; aligning with enterprise direction, collaborating with, and influencing others in order to gain consensus on and adopt and implement accordingly
- Passion for working with leading cloud-based data technologies, ETL/ELT tools, providing 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
- Solid understanding of enterprise data architecture concepts, data modeling and design techniques
- Expert knowledge and experience in Oracle RDMS
- 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
- Proven technology and leadership experience in data management, ETL/ELT tools and analytics solutions
- Well-grounded knowledge of engineering and continuous delivery practices
- Proven leadership skills, demonstrated ability to mentor, influence and partnering 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 Oracle, Aerospike, 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
What the job involves
- As a Director of Data Architecture in MDM Architecture COE, you collaborate and build positive relationships with business leads and technology product teams across business units, driving our data architectures to implement groundbreaking database technologies as enablers for key investment data management business capabilities
- You blend deep expertise and experience in engineering, technical design, systems 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 if needed in collaboration with BU Product Architects, Business teams, and agile planning office
- 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, 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 platform capabilities and adoption
- Deep technical foundation: Drives the data architecture database technology vision to support the next generation of investment data platform
- 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
- 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
Our take
Fidelity Investments, formally known as the Fidelity Fund, has been a leading financial services provider since the 1940s and has seen massive expansion over the latter half of the 20th century. With more than $10 trillion in assets under Fidelity, it is one of the largest asset managers in the world.
Fidelity has been operating as a multinational since the 60s and has offices across 9 countries through the moniker Fidelity International, now Fidelity Worldwide Investment. The industries served by Fidelity are widespread and its clients number in the millions. In 2018, Fidelity opened a service focused on investments in the digital space, focusing on innovations within the bitcoin sector.
As a longstanding leader, Fidelity is well set to maintain its position as well as expand its market share as it develops new features to keep pace with the evolving fintech industry.
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Company
Company benefits
- Maternal & Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully-paid maternity leave and 12 weeks fully-paid parental leave
- Flexible Wellness Programs: Wellness centers, online consultations, subsidized healthy eating, on-site fitness & more
- Student Loan Assistance: Helping you get a step ahead by paying down your loans so you can save on interest, with up to $15K in contributions
- Concierge Services: Support for the little things that pop-up every day. Delegate tasks on your personal to-do list, plan vacations, find contractor referrals & more
- Dependent care flexible spending (FSA)
- Commuter benefit program
- Adoption assistance
- Backup dependent care
- Fidelity Charitable® employee match program
- Discount programs for employees
- Legal services plan
- 401(k): pre-tax and/or Roth
- Medical coverage
- Dental & Vision coverage
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Group auto & homeowner’s insurance
- Group personal excess liability insurance
- And Many More!
Company HQ
Downtown, Boston, MA
Leadership
Abigail Johnson
(Chairman & CEO, not founder)Has worked at Fidelity Investments since 1988, rising through the ranks from Asset Manager to Head of Retail to President, then CEO.
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