Director, Data Engineering

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

Director, Data Engineering

The Role

The FILI Technology team is seeking a dynamic leader responsible for leading a team in designing, developing, and maintaining data infrastructure, particularly focusing on Snowflake. This role involves technical leadership, data modeling, data pipeline design, and collaboration with other teams to ensure data quality and business value. 

We’re looking for a team-focused leader with phenomenal interpersonal skills that will work collaboratively across business and technology teams. The Delivery Team Lead will ensure alignment on 'what' and 'when' work is to be performed through continuous planning and management of a roadmap that serves our group and Domain.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide day to day leadership for a delivery team comprised of engineering and product resources, and indirect leadership of supporting teams, i.e. architecture, quality and program management.

• Engage team members, in an agile structure, to deliver solutions that drive efficiency and effectiveness against defined product objectives and the team mission while continuously improving, innovating, experimenting, learning and celebrating success.

• Committed to developing others and yourself to ensure the latest thinking and knowledge is integrated into the culture of the team including talent lifecycle including performance management.

• Trusted advisor for functional capabilities of the platform or system. Align resources to the highest priorities in partnership with the Platform Leader and ensure effective production support coverage for the platform(s)

• Accountable for alignment to functional strategy, including technology standards, policies and improving reuse, within the enterprise ecosystem and across the function.

• Responsible for proactive research, analysis and recommendation of new and existing feature opportunities that align to the Platform Group strategies.

• Participate and actively contribute to assessing platform choices for the future. Ensure overall operational health of the platform/system.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• 10 plus years of relevant employment experience leading teams and developing products and solutions with technology.

• Knowledge of Insurance industry would be preferred and an added plus

• Mentoring and guiding data engineers and analysts within the team.

• Defining and implementing best practices for operational and analytical datastore

• Leading the design and development of warehouse solutions like Snowflake

• Driving continuous improvement of the data platform and architecture.

• Designing and implementing data pipelines and ETL processes using Snowflake, Snaplogic and other similar technologies.

• Ensuring data quality, privacy, security, and compliance.

• Collaborating with data scientists, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.

• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.).

• Strong understanding of cloud databases like AWS RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB

• Experience with SQL, Python, and other relevant programming languages preferred

• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Excellent planning, project management, consulting, leadership, and talent management skills.

• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills, including an ability to effectively connect with both business and technical teams.

• Jira and Jira Align experience preferred.

• Leadership – demonstrated expertise of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues without formal authority with a track record of building engaged and empowered teams.

• Management – able to delegate, mentor and deliver feedback to Business Analysts and/or Associate Product Owners that may report directly to you. Prioritize management responsibilities and support that cultivates associate growth and career development.

The Team

This Delivery team is part of Fidelity Insurance Group; focused on empowering customers and associates to thrive in a digital-first world through the creation of scalable business capabilities and platforms that support and power much of our Brokerage, Wealth and Workplace businesses.

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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.