Director, Data Architect

Director, Data Architect

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) – Durham, NC, USA. Posted:
Jan 3, 2026.

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) is seeking an experienced data architect to support the Workplace Platforms Managed Accounts product area. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of data architecture principles and data strategy development. In this role, you will be responsible for formulating and driving the data strategy to help drive modernization efforts from a data perspective. You will also be working across business units and enterprise technology teams partnering with business leaders, architecture, and engineering to influence our core and common strategy and deliver these data capabilities.

• Education – BS or MS required
• Demonstrated technology and personal leadership experience in architecting, designing, and building highly scalable transactional, analytical, and/or reporting applications.
• Ability to formulate data strategy, conceptual architecture and work with development teams to execute the strategy.
• Expertise in data management standard methodologies such as data integration, data security, data warehousing, data analytics, metadata management and data quality.
• Ability to evaluate, prototype and recommend emerging data technologies and platforms.
• Demonstrated experience developing enterprise applications and data solution in the cloud – Azure/AWS.
• Experience architecting large complex systems with large volume and high-performance requirements.
• Strong understanding of Data Modeling concepts including 3rd normal form and dimensional modeling.
• Expertise in relational database technologies such as Oracle and Snowflake; cloud native databases such as Yugabyte DB and Cockroach DB; and No
  
  SQL databases such as Aerospike.
• Expertise in programming languages such as SQL and Python, Java a plus
• ETL experience on-prem and the cloud, preferred Python, Informatica and Snaplogic.
• Experience with data processing concepts such as Change Data Capture, Eventing, and Streaming technologies.
• Analytical reporting experience, preferably Snowflake and Power
  
  BI.
• Understanding of cloud concepts, specifically resiliency, scalability, and performance from a data/database perspective.

Seniority level: Director

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Professional Training and Coaching

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.