What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, API and Data Engineering position at Fidelity Investments Careers?
Job Description:
The Role
Fidelity Labs is looking for a Director of API and Data Engineering to join a newly founded startup. The startup’s focus is building innovative technology for financial advisors and their clients. This role will be hands-on player/coach responsible for the design, implementation, testing and delivery of world class real-time APIs and data pipelines. The Director of API and Data Engineer will work closely with technical leads, product managers and business analysts to move ideas from concepts to scale and bring these game-changing ideas to market.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Extensive software engineering and architectural experience
Experience leading and managing agile engineering teams
Expert knowledge of SQL, RESTful APIs, system design, data structures, and algorithms
Expert knowledge of at least one application language: Ruby, Python, Java, NodeJS etc.
Experience with microservice architectures and code-first data pipelines
Passion for testing as a core part of the development process
You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with high risks and high rewards
Bonus points for experience with:
Data pipeline and streaming technologies: AirFlow, Kafka or Kinesis
Data Warehousing technologies: Snowflake, Redshift
Data Querying technologies: Athena
Non-SQL data stores: Elasticsearch, neo4j
Cloud deployment: AWS, CI/CD
The Team
We are Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments’ in-house fintech incubator with a mission to build new businesses to drive growth for Fidelity. We seek to shape the future of our industry by building new products and services to improve the lives of the diverse set of customers, businesses and financial institutions we serve.
Fidelity Labs is a dynamic workplace that combines the best parts of startup life—building from scratch, adapting quickly, and moon-shot ambition—with the scale and stability of an industry leader. We provide a safe space for startup teams to explore new business ideas, quickly test them with customers, and scale the most promising concepts within an existing business unit, or as a new venture.
This opportunity is brought to you by Fidelity Labs. Learn more at labs.fidelity.com.
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Company Overview
At Fidelity Investments, our customers are at the heart of everything we do. As a privately held company with a rich 75-year history, our mission has remained the same since our founding: to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.
Join Us
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. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning and growth so you can build the career you’ve always imagined. We welcome associates from different backgrounds and with different perspectives to help us innovate and make a difference for our customers and our communities.
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 Leave of Absence/Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 2.
Fidelity will continue to keep the safety of associates and customers as our top priority and this will never change. As the pandemic evolves and Federal, State, and Local regulations emerge, it has become clear that knowing the vaccination status of all associates is critical to our safety efforts.
Therefore, Fidelity will require all candidates to disclose their COVID-19 vaccination status during the hiring process, and if vaccinated, provide proof of vaccine.
This is not a requirement to be vaccinated. It is a requirement to report vaccination status and, if vaccinated, provide proof.
