Director, Data Architecture

Job Description :

Job Title : Director, Data Architecture

The Role

As the Data Architect for Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable, cloud-based data architectures supporting Fidelitys Brokerage Recordkeeping Applications. Youll collaborate with development teams, solution architects, and enterprise leaders to standardize solutions, drive modernization, and align technology with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and promote data architecture strategies, patterns, standards, and guidelines.
• Provide technical leadership across complex projects and initiatives.
• Guide the adoption of cloud-native data solutions and data integration patterns.
• Champion data-driven decision-making and reusable patterns, standards and guidelines.
• Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) to evaluate emerging technologies.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory standards.
• Support mainframe migration and modernization efforts.

Qualifications

Skills & Competencies

About the Team

Fidelity Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology (BRT) supports retail, workplace, and institutional customers by providing brokerage, clearing and custody services. BRT customers include investment professionals (e.g. financial advisors, registered investment advisors, institutional investors), businesses, and institutions (e.g. broker-dealers, banks, trusts, and family offices). Fidelity Investments holds $15.1 Trillion in assets under administration (2024) and its platforms process 3.5 Million total daily trades.

The BRT Architecture group provides deep technical expertise to the broader BRT Engineering community, delivering solution architecture and data architecture mentorship as well as cross-organization technical architecture guidance (enterprise architecture). Data architecture team is accountable for data architecture of the Brokerage Recordkeeping Systems, with an objective to modernize the data platforms, improve and prepare our systems for business growth, increase efficiency with agility and, ultimately, the unlocking of new value for investment professionals, businesses, institutions, and employees. We strive towards creating systems for gathering the right data and incorporating it fully for operations and analytics to drive the business forward, with best of the breed data solutions to collect, store, and analyze the data, to generate insights.

Certifications : Category :

Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelitys business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and / or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.