Principal, Data Engineer

Fidelity Investments; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Investments in Durham, North Carolina is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead database engineering solutions for mission-critical platforms. The successful candidate will have 12+ years of experience with Oracle and PostgreSQL, along with strong cloud database expertise.

This role involves application database administration, SQL performance tuning, and establishing database standards. The candidate is expected to drive improvements and work effectively in team environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience with Oracle database technologies.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud database platforms.
• Strong skills in query performance tuning and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead database engineering solutions for mission-critical platforms.
• Perform application database administration services.
• Establish database standards for operations and improvements.

Skills

Oracle database technologies

PostgreSQL

Cloud technologies

SQL performance tuning

Linux shell scripting

Team collaboration

Tools

Oracle Enterprise Manager

AWS

Azure

Job description

Principal Data Engineer

Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Institutional Brokerage Database Services Center of Excellence (COE) is seeking a highly capable and motivated Director of Database Engineering and Administration to lead the design and delivery of database engineering solutions for mission‑critical platforms.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with leading database technologies, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, SingleStore, NoSQL, and Snowflake. It is ideal for building and applying end‑to‑end database service expertise, with a strong emphasis on application database administration and solution design.

The Expertise And Skills You Bring

• 12+ years of deep experience in Oracle database technologies, including Exadata, PostgreSQL, and distributed SQL databases; strong technical leadership on strategic initiatives. Experience with Db2 is an added advantage.
• 5+ years of cloud experience.
• 12+ years of experience in Oracle database administration, performance engineering, and replication engineering across Linux and engineered systems.
• 3+ years of database performance experience on additional platforms, including PostgreSQL, Snowflake, CockroachDB, SingleStore, and Microsoft SQL Server.
• 5+ years of experience with distributed replication technologies (e.g., Oracle Golden Gate, HVR and EDB Replication); preferred.
• Experience with cloud database platforms; AWS, Azure, or Oracle OCI certification is a plus.
• Deep domain expertise in Oracle internals, optimizer behavior, statistics management, partitioning, physical implementation, and workload management for highly scalable, resilient database platforms.
• Advanced skills in query performance tuning and optimization, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Linux shell scripting, and building database monitoring jobs using PL/SQL.
• Strong Linux shell scripting skills, with a solid understanding of Linux performance.
• Strong understanding of Oracle RAC performance challenges.
• Proven ability to work effectively in team environments while maintaining a positive, collaborative attitude.
• Ability to define and drive database performance standards, best practices, and improvement initiatives; AWS cloud experience is desired.

The Value You Deliver

• Perform application database administration services including SQL code review, performance analysis, query tuning, database application design, physical data modeling, development support and engineering.
• Lead proof‑of‑concept efforts to evaluate and enable new technology solutions.
• Interface with enterprise teams for Systems Administration, Cyber Security and Capacity Planning groups as and when situation demands.
• Strong time management skills with willingness and ability to handle multiple projects/initiatives at the same time.
• Self‑motivated with strong team, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Establish database standards for operations, upgrades, migrations and onboarding new applications and/or clients.
• Write clear, concise, well‑organized technical documentation to maintain standards and procedures.

The Team

The Institutional Brokerage Database Services Center of Excellence (COE) delivers business-facing database solutions that cover the full application and business lifecycle of data platforms, including database design, solution engineering, database engineering, application‑data‑database integration, replication, performance consulting, deployment and support, using world‑class methodologies and technologies. The team provides end‑to‑end database services across a broad set of platforms, including Db2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, CockroachDB, SingleStore, DynamoDB, Aerospike and Snowflake.

Certifications

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