Director, MDM Integrations; Chicago

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Business Unit:
Fitch Group

Category:
Information Technology

Location:

Chicago, IL, US

Date Posted:
Apr 28, 2026

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Director, MDM Integrations based out of our Chicago office.

As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group’s culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics.

With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Fitch's Technology & Data Team is a dynamic department where innovation meets impact. Our team includes the Chief Data Office, Chief Software Office, Chief Technology Office, Emerging Technology, Shared Technology Services, Technology, Risk and the Executive Program Management Office (EPMO). Driven by our investment in cutting‑edge technologies like AI and cloud solutions, we’re home to a diverse range of roles and backgrounds united by a shared passion for leveraging modern technology to drive projects that matter to our organization and clients.

We are also proud to be recognized by Built In as a “Best Place to Work in Technology” 3 years in a row. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, we offer an exciting and supportive environment where you can grow, innovate, and make a difference.

Want to learn more about a career in technology and data at Fitch?

The Master Data Management team is at the forefront of modernizing how Fitch manages its strategic data by establishing enterprise master data for legal entities, securities, and reference data. As part of this team, the candidate will play a key role in shaping a unified, scalable data foundation that supports critical business operations and decision-making.

• Partner closely with the CDO team to deliver a modern, scalable solution of managing and delivering master and reference data, to consumers - unlocking Fitch’s data for innovation, AI and smarter decision‑making.
• As lead of MDM integrations, build hands‑on designs & deliver solutions ensuring well‑coordinated technical delivery aligned to product‑defined priorities and business outcomes
• Integrate agentic and generative AI into Master Data Management to enhance data stewardship, automate matching and enrichment, enable conversational data discovery and issue resolution, and boost user adoption - advancing Fitch’s AI‑ready MDM capabilities.
• Optimize MDM integrations performance and high‑throughput data access by leveraging appropriate data management methodologies.
• Drive complex data transformations and proactively triage issues to eliminate defects and prevent production incidents.
• Mentor and motivate the squad members to grow their career and assist in technical hiring

• 5-7+ years leading data engineering teams, preferably in financial services and cloud experience (AWS, Azure) and leveraging Agile methodologies, including hands‑on expertise with:
• Deep AWS expertise (EKS, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora, Valkey/Redis, Step Functions, MSK/Kafka, Event Bridge)
• Ability to provide technical guidance and leadership to the team
• Applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, Amazon Q)
• Strong Python for data engineering (Pandas, Spark/PySpark) and API Development (FastAPI or similar)
• Design and build high‑performance REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs with optimized query patterns, pagination, caching, and schema design to ensure low‑latency, performant reads at scale
• Build ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming;
  Kafka/MSK with schemas (Avro/JSON) and delivery semantics
• Open table formats (Iceberg or Delta Lake), partitioning, compaction, ACID, schema evolution
• Database expertise with Postgres for schema design…