Director, Data Architecture – Data Migration

Westlake, TX
Full-time
Posted Nov 12, 2026

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Skills

AWS
Microsoft Azure
PostgreSQL
Snowflake

Job description

Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Job Description:

The Rol e

Fidelity Workplace Investing (WI) is seeking an experienced Data Architect to support the Stock Plan Services platform modernization. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in data architecture, database development, and large-scale data migration. This role will drive the migration of Mainframe-based data ecosystems to cloud and distributed data platforms, defining data architecture strategy and migration patterns while ensuring scalability, performance, resiliency, and data integrity across Workplace Investing platforms.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

•10 plus years of experience architecting and delivering highly scalable transactional, operational, and analytical data platforms.

•Proven ability to define data strategy, conceptual architecture, and modernization roadmaps, and partner with engineering teams to execute them.

•Expertise in data architecture, integration, governance, security, warehousing, analytics, metadata management, and data quality.

•Deep understanding of data modeling, including 3NF, dimensional, and canonical data models.

•Ability to evaluate, prototype, and adopt emerging data technologies and platforms.

•Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale data solutions on Azure and/or AWS.

•Must have experience working with Mainframe technologies including COBOL, DB2, IMS, VSAM, JCL, and CICS.

•Proven track record leading large-scale migration programs from Mainframe data platforms to Oracle, Snowflake, and cloud-native databases.

•Experience designing phased migration and coexistence architectures while ensuring data consistency and business continuity.

•Experience with Change Data Capture (CDC), replication, event-driven architectures, and streaming technologies.

•Experience addressing migration challenges including latency, data synchronization, reconciliation, data quality, schema transformation, and performance optimization.

•Hands-on experience with migration and integration technologies such as Kafka, Informatica, SnapLogic, GoldenGate, or similar platforms.

•Strong hands-on database development experience with one or more of Oracle, Snowflake, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.

•Strong leadership and influencing skills with experience collaborating across business, architecture, and technology organizations.

•BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

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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