Principal Data Engineer
Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Durham
Posted on: February 19, 2026
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Job Description:
Develops Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
pipelines, including software configuration management, test
automation, version control, and static code analysis. Programs
using modern object-oriented programing languages Python and Spark.
Works on Data Warehousing, Data mart concepts, and implementations
in relational databases Oracle, SQL Server, Netezza, and Snowflake.
Works with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) technologies
(Informatica). Works closely with the product owner, scrum master,
architects, and other developers to design, build, test, and
deliver software applications and features that impact the
operational efficiency of compliance and risk groups. Primary
Responsibilities: • Architects, crafts, and develops highly
scalable distributed data processing systems. • Collaborates with
business and technology groups on formal and informal
presentations. • Designs batch and streaming programs and adheres
to standards and best practices for these databases. • Researches,
designs, and develops computer and network software or specialized
utility programs. • Provides Analytics and Reports services to the
organization. • Enables Business Intelligence capabilities and
creates data driven business solutions. • Analyzes user needs and
develops software solutions. • Updates software or enhances
existing software capabilities. • Collaborates to obtain
information on project limitations and capabilities, performance
requirements and interfaces. • Develops and oversees software
system testing and validation procedures, programming, and
documentation. Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree (or
foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering,
Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics,
or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a
Principal Data Engineer (or closely related occupation) performing
data analysis, solution design, and development of data ingestion
frameworks and pipelines in a financial services environment. Or,
alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in
Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information
Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three
(3) years of experience as a Principal Data Engineer (or closely
related occupation) performing data analysis, solution design, and
development of data ingestion frameworks and pipelines in a
financial services environment. Skills and Knowledge: Candidate
must also possess: • Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) designing and
implementing highly scalable and high-performance data ingestion
frameworks and pipelines to enable data integration,
transformation, and analytics in a financial services domain, using
Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Lambda, EMR, S3, and EC2),
Linux, and Shell scripting, Informatica, and Control-M. • DE
performing data modeling and database design using Star, Snowflake,
Data Vault techniques, and dimensional structures (types 1, 2, and
3) in a Data Warehouse environment with distributed frameworks
(Snowflake and PySpark) and databases (Oracle and Snowflake). • DE
translating business requirements into technical validations and
examining data to determine accuracy and quality, using SQL/PLSQL;
and automating the CI/CD for deployments using Stash, GitHub,
Jenkins, and uDeploy. • DE designing and developing automation
frameworks for ETL testing, Feed File to database comparison, and
database to database comparison, using ICEDQ tool and Gherkin
language; and testing Tableau dashboards using data permutation
combinations.
Keywords: Fidelity Investments, Greensboro , Principal Data Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Durham, North Carolina
