Principal Data Engineer
At a glance
Senior Data Engineering role at Fidelity. Westlake · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $142,375–$192,500 across the United States.
Fidelity has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Design and build customer-facing applications, contributing to major architectural work and technology initiatives
- Develop cloud database objects and pipelines, tuning queries and indexes to meet performance needs
- Move data between source systems, cloud databases and downstream users through CDC and Kafka-based flows
- Support critical production platforms by monitoring incidents, finding root causes and maintaining service reliability
What you bring
- At least ten years designing and implementing full-stack applications for customers
- A computer science degree or equivalent practical experience
- At least seven years working on complex architecture and technology initiatives
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud data platforms, SQL, data modeling, CDC and streaming integration
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced engineer who can build data systems and take responsibility for production support. Fidelity will not sponsor immigration for this position. Onsite expectations vary by role and location and may change during a phased rollout.
From the employer
Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Job Description:
Fidelity’s Brokerage Authorization team builds and operates the core platform that enables secure, scalable access control for Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology. As part of Shared Services Engineering, the team is transforming authorization from mainframe to cloud‑native architectures, delivering platforms and frameworks that support public cloud adoption at scale.
The Expertise You Have and The Skills You Bring:
· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
· 10 plus years of experience in designing and implementing full stack end-to-end customer-facing applications, financial industry experience a plus.
· 7 plus years of experience working in complex architectural designs and technology initiatives.
· 5 plus years of experience working in agile development environment (Scrum/Kanban).
· Experience Handling INC management / Problem Management of Tier 0 platforms and driving 24x7 operational excellence
· Understanding of modern authorization architectures, including RBAC, ReBAC, JWT-based authorization, and OAuth 2.0.
· Strong experience with cloud-native and distributed database platforms, including designing, developing, and managing database objects such as tables, views, indexes, stored procedures, and data pipelines, while optimizing performance through query tuning, indexing strategies, and performance analysis.
· Proficient in database development and data engineering best practices, including data modeling, SQL programming, stored procedure development, and implementation of scalable, high-performance data solutions across cloud environments.
· Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC) technologies and patterns, enabling real-time data movement and synchronization between source systems, cloud databases, and downstream consumers.
· Hands-on experience integrating cloud databases with event-streaming and messaging platforms such as Kafka, ensuring reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant data flows across distributed systems.
· Knowledge of modern data migration and modernization strategies, including transitioning workloads from traditional relational databases to cloud-based data platforms while maintaining data integrity, performance, and operational resilience.
· Experience building and supporting real-time and near real-time data ingestion pipelines, leveraging CDC, streaming, and automated data integration frameworks within cloud-native architectures.
· Solid Understanding of DevOps CI/CD tools like Jenkins/ Jenkins Core.
· Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
· In-depth understanding and experience with performance metrics, logging, monitoring, alerting, testing, and tuning for highly scalable cloud applications.
· Proven experience in maintaining scalability and resiliency in a complex environment.
· Demonstrated expertise in Production support, including incident management, root cause analysis, real-time monitoring, and high availability and reliability of critical systems in a fast-paced environment.
· Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.
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Information TechnologyPlease 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.