Senior Data Architect

You will be working on a flexible hybrid schedule as part of Fidelity’s dynamic working arrangement.

At Fidelity, we’ve been helping Canadian investors build better financial futures for over 35 years. We offer individuals and institutions a range of trusted investment portfolios and services - and we’re constantly seeking to find new and better ways to help our clients. As a privately owned company, we boldly embrace innovation in all areas as we continue to grow our business into the future.

Working with us means you’ll be part of a diverse and dedicated group of people who make a real difference for our clients and communities every day. You’ll have a wide range of opportunities to grow and develop your career in an inclusive environment where you’ll feel valued and supported to be your best - both personally and professionally.

How You’ll Make an Impact

The Architecture team is responsible for delivering technology solutions that support our divisional strategy. In addition, the team leads the development of Fidelity Investments Canada’s technology vision and strategy. This involves conducting research into a variety of technologies and business focus areas that includes data warehouse, data integration, master data, big data, cloud services, data governance and quality, security and operational efficiency.

The Data Architect role assists with establishing and evolving the data standards, models and technical solutions. This will include active participation in key business and IS initiatives to ensure that solutions are architected and aligned with the Canada data strategy and technology directions. Data architects are senior visionaries who translate business requirements into technology requirements and define data standards and technology solutions.

What You Will Do

• Overall alignment with enterprise data strategy, a key responsibility involves technology solutions in addition to close collaboration with our international partners.
• Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, databases, and data warehouses.
• Defining the data architecture framework, standards and principles, including modeling, metadata, security, reference data such as product codes and client categories, and master data such as clients, vendors, product and employees.
• Defining reference architecture, which is a pattern that others can follow to create and improve data systems
• Defining data flows, i.e., which parts of the organization generate data, which require data to function, how data flows are managed, and how data changes in transition.
• Collaborating and coordinating with multiple departments, stakeholders, partners, and external vendors
• Develop data solutions to store and retrieve company information
• Design conceptual and logical data models and flowcharts
• Brings good knowledge of data governance best practices and tools experience
• Provide business analyst support to business and technology initiatives aimed at improving data quality, timeliness of delivery,

What We’re Looking For

• University Degree/College Diploma, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 12 years’ experience as an IT professional, 5 of which as a Data Architect
• Proven experience in database logical and physical design, BI and data visualization tools (i.e., Tableau, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce Einstein), Advance Analytics, AI/ML, data source analysis, and overall data management
• Big Data Architecture - Cloudera or Hortonworks
• Master Data Management experience with Informatica or other industry vendors like IBM
• Experience with Cloud is required (AWS or Azure)
• Data warehousing - Snowflake preferred
• Data Integration, Informatica iPaaS preferred
• Database design and experience, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, AWS Aurora, MYSQL, Postgre
  
  SQL and IBM DB2
• Experienced with industry leading open-source tools such as Apache Sqoop, KNIME, Rapid Miner, Elasticsearch, Pig, Hive, Kafka etc. (couple of them).

The Expertise You Bring

• Good project management skills and structured process mapping skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills, communication and presentation skills
• Able to build…