Job Description
Principal Data Engineer – Tech Lead
The Role
The Advanced Strategies & Research Technology Team in Fidelity’s Asset Management organization is an embedded team passionate about unlocking the potential of new technologies, techniques and datasets, to assist our Investment Professionals in generating alpha for our investment products and customers.
The role is ideal for someone with an enterprise development background, with a strong technology, coding and data skills, looking to operate in a less constrained environment, as part of an accelerated development team.
The role is ideal for a skilled technical leader with strong design, teamwork and influencing skills.
Ideally the candidate is a full stack, but this role will be primarily focused on processing and generating Analytics from structured and unstructured datasets with the ability of parallel processing potentially in the cloud.
The ideal candidate will quickly adapt to new technologies and a go-getter, with quantitative concepts and data.
The Team
The team is comprised of a diverse set of technology professionals including application developers, database engineers, data scientists and tool prototypes with quantitative backgrounds who work collectively with our business partners to take ideas from a whiteboard, through prototypes that garner feedback to be rapidly deployed to our users, all the way through to integration with enterprise applications both on prem and on the cloud.
THE EXPERTISE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
10+ years of enterprise development and a desire to work on a fast-paced development team
Experience of balancing multiple tracks concurrently
Experience in planning, designing, leading, and executing technical solutions and improvements
Experience with object orientated programming, with projects completed using many of the following technologies including Java or C#, Python, Angular 2.0+, AWS, and RDBMS
Knowledge of Cloud computing concepts (AWS) and using CI/CD tools
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with on call responsibilities
The Skills You Bring
You have a track record of engineering experience by processing large datasets and building scalable applications and Rapid Prototyping
You have a background with enterprise development and a consistent record rapidly bring projects from inception to delivery in ambitious timeframes. Using Java or C#, Python, Angular 2.0+, MVC frameworks
You have solid experience in Object Oriented Programming in Java or C# or Python
You have solid experience in developing custom Data Pipelines to extract data, map data, transform data, and to load data in various data stores like RDBMS, Oracle, S3, PL/SQL, and / or shared drives.
You have solid experience in Python and libraries such as Pandas / Numpy, etc. or Spark
You are familiar with extracting data from REST APIs and parallel processing large datasets using C# or Java
Your demonstrable experience developing scripting in Linux and Windows
Experience with migrating applications to AWS (Cloud) will be an added advantage.
Certifications
- Company Overview
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