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About Fidelity Financial Services
Fidelity Investments is one of the largest financial services companies in the world, offering brokerage services, mutual funds, retirement planning, wealth management, and life insurance to individuals and institutions. Industry: Financial Services & Investment Management
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The Principal Architect designs and builds highly scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions within the capital markets domain, specifically focusing on fixed income modernization, prime brokerage enhancements, and shared operations data stores. The role involves defining multi-year technology roadmaps, architecting enterprise data solutions using modern integration frameworks, and providing technical leadership to agile teams. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing storage strategies for partitioning and caching, managing metadata, and building ETL/ELT pipelines. The candidate will work with a variety of technologies including Snowflake, Apache Spark, Scala, Python, Java, and AWS services such as Lambda, Glue, Redshift, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis Firehose, and Kafka Streams. Key technical tasks involve modeling relational and NoSQL data structures while implementing distributed systems for both streaming and batch processing to solve complex financial data challenges.
What does a Architect earn?
Median $231525 from 30 postings across 17 companies.
Architect and build scalable, resilient, and secure data solutions using modern cloud technologies and data architecture techniques.
Define and execute multi-year data technology roadmaps and strategies for enterprise initiatives.
Design enterprise data solutions utilizing distributed systems, NoSQL databases, Snowflake, and data lakes.
Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like AWS Glue, Lambda, and Apache Spark.
Develop storage strategies including partitioning, archiving, and caching to optimize performance across various cloud services.
Implement modern data integration frameworks for both streaming and batch processing.
Provide technical leadership and hands-on solutions to agile teams to ensure alignment with architecture standards.
Support the testing, validation, and documentation of data systems to ensure quality and compliance.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field and five years of experience as a Principal Architect.
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related field and three years of experience as a Principal Architect.
Experience performing application architecture, design, and development in a financial services and data-oriented product environment.
Proficiency in Cloud technologies and Agile methodologies (Scrum).
Expertise architecting scalable backend infrastructure using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, EMR, Glue, S3, Redshift, RDS, and DynamoDB.
Experience executing metadata management, data modeling, complex SQL queries, and building ETL/ELT pipelines.
Expertise in modern data integration frameworks for streaming and batch processing using Apache Spark, Scala, Python, or Java.
Experience designing high-availability architectures with disaster recovery using Kinesis Firehose or Kafka Streams.
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