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Director, Data Engineering

Fidelity

Fidelity

Software Engineering, Data Science
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Posted on Feb 25, 2026
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Job Description:

Position Description:

Leads the engineering team working within autonomous squads across product areas. Drives the adoption of new technologies and approaches to software development, including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML), Cloud computing, and DevOps, to improve efficiency, speed, and quality of software delivery. Designs and delivers data lake, data warehouses, and reporting platforms. Performs automation via Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), using Jenkins, Bash, Terraform, and Git. Contributes to the development of best practices, standards, and guidelines for software development, including code reviews, testing, and deployment processes, to ensure consistency and quality across the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Influences strategic decisions and build solutions.
  • Ensures talent composition aligns with strategic business priorities including workforce planning, to provide increased value and results for clients and business.
  • Coaches and mentors team members to help grow and develop skills.
  • Enables an Agile and streamlined organization by demonstrating Agile behaviors -- continuous improvement, collaboration, and adaptability.
  • Explores new technologies and approaches to software development.
  • Builds and maintains relationships with partners, product managers, business leaders, and other engineering teams, to ensure alignment and collaboration across the organization.
  • Advocates for software engineering best practices and trends, including attending conferences, participating in industry groups, and sharing knowledge and expertise with the broader engineering community.
  • Applies test-focused approach to developing software and contributes to automated testing frameworks.
  • Performs functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
  • Builds, crafts, and reviews code.
  • Reviews design options and decisions, and presents to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Uses code generators and tools to increase developer productivity and efficiency in software development.
  • Drives innovation and promotes Agile leadership behaviors.
  • Mentors leaders and associates and helps them develop technical and/or management skills.
  • Collaborates with other leaders in an Agile structure to establish engineering standards.
  • Develops the team’s skills and expertise, and improves the value delivered to clients.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Data Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing and designing data pipeline solutions in a financial services environment.

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of experience as a Director, Data Engineering (or closely related occupation) developing and designing data pipeline solutions in a financial services environment.

Skills and Knowledge:

Candidate must also possess:

  • Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) building data engineering applications in a financial service environment; designing the implementing scalable, event-driven Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) pipelines and software applications, using Apache Airflow, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda, AWS Kinesis, Python, Java, TypeScript, and REST API development principles; processing batch and real-time data to and from RDS-PostgreSQL, S3, and Snowflake; and building Integrated Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines with Jenkins, Bash and Git, enabling automated testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • DE in Real-Time Data Replication and Change Data Capture (CDC) -- architecting and implementing low-latency CDC pipelines to capture transactional changes from on-premises and Cloud-hosted databases including Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server and replicating them to downstream databases and AWS environments; performing replication orchestration using Oracle Goldengate Microservices and Goldengate for Big Data; and performing scalable deployment (using AWS EC2 and EFS) and integrating with Amazon S3 and Snowflake for secure storage and analytical processing -- enabling near-instant synchronization of financial business and customer data for analytical and compliance needs.
  • DE deploying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to provision secure, auditable, environments across Cloud services, using Terraform; and enforcing fine-grained Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, encryption standards, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) security to meet financial regulatory compliance.
  • DE implementing data models for relational databases using Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler and SAP PowerDesigner data modeler; designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models, using Object Oriented and Entity relationship models; and performing database troubleshooting and tuning for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server, using SQL plans and complex PL/SQL queries.

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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. Some roles may have unique onsite requirements. Please consult with your recruiter for the specific expectations for this position.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s 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.

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

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At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2026. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations@fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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