Director Cloud Data Architecture

Fidelity Investments • Smithfield, RI

80d

About The Position

As a Director of Cloud Data 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.

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, APIs, and security architectures.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture patterns, especially AWS.
• Deep technical foundation in data architecture technology vision.
• Proficiency in enterprise data architecture concepts, data modeling, lineage, and governance.
• Expert knowledge in relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, Snowflake), Graph databases (Neo4J), and NoSQL platforms.
• Significant experience in sophisticated data environments including enterprise warehouses and data lakes.
• Experience collaborating with data engineering and database administrators.
• Solid experience in driving Automation, Data Quality Security and Governance practices.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the financial industry and data management concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL platforms.
• Current on event processing, Data API, and emerging data technologies.
• Demonstrated organizational savvy and maturity.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and build positive relationships with business leads and technology product teams.
• Drive data architectures and technology patterns for data management business capabilities.
• Blend expertise in engineering, technical design, systems, and database management.
• Perform research on industry trends and lead tool evaluation efforts.
• Establish standards for data architecture and influence strategic decisions.
• Define new and/or evolve existing data strategies.
• Collaborate with architect communities across Fidelity Data Architecture.
• Mentor and influence engineering and product teams.

Benefits

• Hybrid work model requiring onsite work every other week.
• Opportunities for mentoring and professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities