Job Title: Principal Data Engineer
The Purpose of Your Role
SPS (Stock Plan Services) within the Workplace Investing Technology organization is seeking a highly motivated Principal Data Engineer to architect, build, and scale modern cloud-based data platforms that power analytics, reporting, operational excellence, and customer experiences. You will lead the design and delivery of enterprise data solutions, establish engineering standards, and drive the modernization of data and ETL platforms using cloud-native technologies.
As a hands-on technical leader, you will partner across business and technology teams to create secure, scalable, and high-performance data ecosystems that enable trusted, actionable insights.
The Value You Deliver
- Architect and build scalable, secure, and multi-tenant data platforms that support analytics, machine learning, and real-time business needs.
- Design and deliver resilient batch and streaming data pipelines with strong reliability, observability, and performance.
- Translate business strategy into modern data architectures, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps.
- Establish reusable data models, ETL frameworks, and engineering patterns that accelerate delivery and improve quality.
- Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, automation, root cause analysis, and continuous platform optimization.
- Improve data availability, quality, lineage, and governance to enable confident decision-making across business teams.
- Reduce operational effort and infrastructure costs through automation, standardization, and cloud optimization.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through architecture reviews, design forums, and engineering best practices.
The Skills That Are Key to This Role
- 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, ETL, and Data Platform Engineering with expertise in scalable data architectures, data modeling, and multi-tenant platforms.
- Strong programming skills in Python and advanced SQL, with experience across Oracle, Azure SQL MI, MySQL, and Snowflake, including performance tuning and PL/SQL development.
- Strong expertise in Oracle PL/SQL development, query optimization, performance tuning, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and database performance troubleshooting for high-volume enterprise applications.
- Deep expertise in ETL/ELT development using Informatica, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Databricks/Spark, and Python.
- Experience designing and supporting batch, real-time, and streaming data pipelines using technologies such as Azure Event Hub, Kafka, and Kinesis.
- Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and modern data platform technologies.
- Expertise in DataOps/DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, and data quality and observability frameworks.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to lead enterprise-scale data initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence architecture and technology decisions across business domains.
The Expertise We’re Looking For
- 10+ years professional experience with multiple successful enterprise data platform deliveries.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
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How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Workplace Investing (WI) helps millions of people save and invest through workplace savings plans. WI builds lifetime relationships with customers and provides employers with cost-effective, integrated employee benefit solutions. The company serves customers online, over the phone. WI business constitutes of four different product lines Defined Contribution(DC), Defined Benefits(DB), Health & Welfare(HW) and Stock plan services(SPS).
Location : Bangalore - EGL
Shift timings: 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Certifications:Category:Information Technology
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, ETL, and data platform engineering
- Experience delivering enterprise data platforms and scalable, multi-tenant data architectures
- Strong programming skills in Python and advanced SQL
- Experience with Oracle, Azure SQL MI, MySQL, and Snowflake
- Expertise in Oracle PL/SQL development, query optimization, performance tuning, indexing, execution plan analysis, and database troubleshooting
- Experience with Informatica, Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Databricks/Spark, and Python for ETL/ELT development
- Experience designing and supporting batch, real-time, and streaming pipelines
- Experience with Azure Event Hub, Kafka, and Kinesis
- Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and modern data platform technologies
- Expertise in DataOps/DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, data quality, and observability frameworks
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to lead enterprise-scale data initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence architecture decisions
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
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.
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