Director, Data Platform & Modernization

Socket.dev; North Carolina; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments seeks a Director of Data Platform to lead modernization across mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments. You will coach and develop engineers, define strategic roadmaps, and drive excellence in delivery and resiliency across a global enterprise.

The role requires deep mainframe expertise, extensive leadership, and a track record delivering large-scale transformations with API enablement, data-platform evolution, and cloud integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/Engineering/IS or related field.
• 12+ years in software engineering; strong mainframe experience.
• Deep COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM knowledge.
• Design and support for mission-critical data platforms and recordkeeping.
• SQL experience in DB2/Oracle environments.
• Modernization: API enablement, cloud integration, legacy transformation.
• Java, REST, distributed architectures knowledge preferred.
• ETL tech, Informatica, big data processing experience.
• Cloud experience, Azure preferred; cloud-native practices
• Kafka/Redis experience a plus; strong Agile/DevSecOps/SRE.
• Influences strategy; strong stakeholder & leadership skills.
• Financial services experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and organizational leadership for globally distributed teams.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, and Engineering to align roadmaps.
• Establish standards, governance, and scalable architecture.
• Lead modernization: cloud, API enablement, data platform evolution.
• Advocate Agile, DevSecOps, automation, observability, SRE practices.
• Remove impediments to improve delivery and platform performance.
• Drive operational excellence with risk management and resiliency.
• Ensure reliability, security, and compliance of platforms.
• Communicate strategy, progress, risks to senior leadership.
• Guide modernization investments balancing value and debt.

Skills

Mainframe development

COBOL

JCL

CICS

DB2

VSAM

SQL (DB2/Oracle)

API enablement

Cloud integration

Java & REST

ETL (Informatica)

Kafka/Redis

Agile DevSecOps SRE

Leadership & stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

Informatica

Azure

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Fidelity Investments seeks a Director of Data Platform to lead modernization across mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments. You will coach and develop engineers, define strategic roadmaps, and drive excellence in delivery and resiliency across a global enterprise.

The role requires deep mainframe expertise, extensive leadership, and a track record delivering large-scale transformations with API enablement, data-platform evolution, and cloud integration.