Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
THE ROLE
Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing (WI) is actively seeking an experienced Director of Database Administration to lead a team of dedicated and experienced DBAs. The associate will help us drive strategic database initiatives in support of our business strategy both in the US and globally. This is a highly visible, dynamic role supporting critical platforms with a global, follow-the-sun operating model.
THE PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
The Director sets database strategy, drives operational excellence, and ensures resilient, secure, and scalable databases for Workplace Investing. The Director is accountable for team performance, production stability, lifecycle risk reduction, and delivery against long-term architecture and business goals.
THE EXPERTISE YOU BRING
Deep expertise in enterprise database operations across Oracle, Postgres, Yugabyte, Aerospike, SQL Server and SQL MI
Expertise and hands-on knowledge in Performance tuning, scripting and automation a strong plus
Strong leadership in TLM, including patching and end-of-life software management
Shown success running programs spanning multiple applications and customer groups
Ability to direct a team with 24x7 production support and active incident management
Knowledge and expertise in on-prem, cloud and hybrid DBA operations
THE SKILLS YOU BRING
Strong executive communication skills; regularly present strategy, risks, and progress to senior management
Demonstrated experience hiring, mentoring, and coaching junior DBAs
Ability to operationalize solutions and ideas into standard operating procedures (SOP)
THE TEAM
The WI DBA team is a diverse group of experienced DBA who support the databases of Workplace Investing. The group supports a large number of complex and critical databases serving a diverse set of 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.
Skills Required
- Deep expertise in enterprise database operations across Oracle, PostgreSQL, YugabyteDB, Aerospike, SQL Server, and SQL Server Managed Instance
- Strong leadership in technology lifecycle management, including patching and end-of-life software management
- Successful experience running programs spanning multiple applications and customer groups
- Ability to direct a team providing 24x7 production support and active incident management
- Knowledge of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid database administration operations
- Strong executive communication skills, including presenting strategy, risks, and progress to senior management
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and coaching junior database administrators
- Ability to operationalize solutions into standard operating procedures
- Experience with performance tuning, scripting, and automation
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
Fidelity Investments Insights
What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
