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Principal, Data Engineer

Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments Salary
Durham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 7/23/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/6/2026
Job Description

Principal Data Engineer

Note: Fidelity is not providing immigration sponsorship for this position

The Role

The Institutional Brokerage Database Services Center of Excellence (COE) 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 position requires a creative mindset and a strong sense of ownership for assigned problems and requests, while providing significant exposure to cutting-edge technologies across the broader database landscape.

The Expertise And Skills You Bring

  • 12 years of deep experience in Oracle database technologies, with a proven end-to-end understanding of the database stack, including Exadata, PostgreSQL, and distributed SQL databases, along with strong technical leadership on strategic initiatives. Experience with Db2 is an added advantage.
  • 5 years of cloud experience

The Skills You Bring

  • 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, across Linux and engineered systems.
  • 5 years of experience with distributed replication technologies (for example, 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, preferred.
  • 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 applications 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 Administrators, Cyber Security and Capacity Planning groups as and when situation demands
  • Should have 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.

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

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

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