Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Position Description:
Architects, designs, and builds highly scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions using modern data architecture techniques and cloud data technologies. Implements relational and NoSQL databases, data warehouses, data lakes, streaming technologies, master data management, distributed databases, Snowflake, and reporting and analytics solutions. Authors and drives technology data strategy initiatives for key portfolios, including fixed income modernization and enhancements on prime brokerage in the capital markets domain, while expanding to shared operations data stores and Snowflake-based data warehouses.
Primary Responsibilities:
Defines and executes technology multi-year data technology road map and multi-year data strategy for enterprise initiatives.
Architects and designs enterprise data solutions leveraging modern data integration frameworks, distributed systems, and emerging data architecture patterns.
Ensures technology decisions align with architecture standards and governance strategies.
Builds and maintains effective relationships within the architecture product area, squad, and chapter leads.
Supports testing, validation, and documentation of data systems to ensure quality and compliance.
Provides technical leadership and hands-on solutions to agile teams, ensuring alignment with architecture standards and strategies.
Collaborates with engineering leaders, product leaders, and application development teams to cultivate innovation, drive standardization, and deliver next-generation data ecosystems.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Architect (or closely related occupation) performing application architecture, design, and development in a financial services and data-oriented product environment, using Cloud technologies and Agile methodologies (Scrum).
Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Architect (or closely related occupation) performing application architecture, design, and development in a financial services and data-oriented product environment, using Cloud technologies and Agile methodologies (Scrum).
Skills and Knowledge:
Candidate must also possess:
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) architecting and designing scalable backend infrastructure for a finance application suite by modeling data flow and user interactions, using Lambda and using AWS Step Functions or Amazon Managed Airflow, and using Elastic MapReduce or AWS Glue; and developing storage strategies including partitioning, availability, archival, and caching to optimize performance and reliability, using AWS S3, AWS Glue, Redshift, Relational Database Service (RDS), and DynamoDB.
DE executing metadata management and data modeling while creating complex SQL queries and building data warehouses, data lakes, and Extract, Transform, Load/ Extract, Load, Transform (ETL/ELT) pipelines, using Lambda, Elastic MapReduce, and AWS Glue, and using AWS Step Functions or Amazon Managed Airflow.
DE architecting and implementing modern data integration frameworks for streaming and batch processing by designing highly scalable distributed systems and modeling relational and NoSQL data structures, using Apache Spark, AWS Elastic MapReduce, and DynamoDB, and using Airflow or Step Function, and using Scala, Python, or Java.
DE evaluating, integrating, and prototyping AWS services for petabyte-scale data processing using Apache Spark, and Elastic Map Reduce, and using AWS Redshift or Snowflake; and designing high-availability architectures with disaster recovery and real-time capabilities using AWS Lambda, and using DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis Firehose, or Kafka Streams.
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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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or closely related field and five years' experience as a Principal Architect in financial services and data-oriented products (or foreign equivalent).
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or closely related field and three years' experience as a Principal Architect in financial services and data-oriented products (or foreign equivalent).
- Experience working with Cloud technologies (AWS) and Agile methodologies (Scrum) in a financial services environment.
- Expertise architecting scalable backend infrastructure using AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions or Amazon Managed Airflow, and EMR or AWS Glue.
- Experience designing storage strategies and implementing S3, AWS Glue, Redshift, RDS, and DynamoDB for partitioning, availability, archival, and caching.
- Proven metadata management and data modeling skills, complex SQL, and building data warehouses, data lakes, and ETL/ELT pipelines using Lambda, EMR, and AWS Glue.
- Experience architecting data integration frameworks for streaming and batch processing using Apache Spark, EMR, DynamoDB, Airflow or Step Functions, and programming in Scala, Python, or Java.
- Experience evaluating and prototyping AWS services for petabyte-scale data processing (Spark, EMR) and using Redshift or Snowflake; designing high-availability, disaster recovery, and real-time capabilities using Lambda, DynamoDB Streams, Kinesis Firehose, or Kafka Streams.
- Strong technical leadership, collaboration with engineering and product teams, and ability to drive architecture standards and governance.
- Authorized to work without immigration sponsorship (Fidelity will not provide sponsorship).
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.
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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.
