Principal Data Engineer

Fidelity; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity's Brokerage Authorization team is rebuilding core access control for Brokerage Recordkeeping Technology as part of Shared Services Engineering. You will help migrate from mainframe to cloud-native architectures, delivering scalable authorization platforms and data pipelines.

The role requires a strong background in full stack, distributed systems, and real-time data integration, with focus on RBAC, ReBAC, JWT, OAuth 2.0, and cloud-native DBs. Onsite work is currently part of the model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years designing and implementing full stack end-to-end customer-facing applications.
• 7+ years in complex architectural designs and technology initiatives.
• 5+ years in agile development (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience handling INC/Problem Management of Tier 0 platforms and 24x7 operations.
• Understanding of modern authorization architectures (RBAC, ReBAC, JWT, OAuth 2.0).
• Experience with cloud-native distributed databases and data pipelines, with performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end customer-facing applications in a secure, scalable manner.
• Lead complex architectural initiatives and drive cloud-native modernization.
• Ensure 24x7 operational excellence with incident management and root‑cause analysis.

Skills

RBAC

OAuth 2.0

Kafka

CDC

SQL

Jenkins

Cloud-native

Performance tuning

Incident management

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Jenkins Core

Kafka

Cloud databases

Job description

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.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

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