Director, Data Analysis
Company: Fidelity Investments
Location: Durham
Posted on: February 19, 2026
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Job Description:
Leads the development and implementation of data modeling
strategies to ensure accountability for initiatives and timelines,
while maintaining alignment with enterprise standards on
technology, tools, and procedures. Analyzes and interprets data to
support the team in making informed and impactful decisions, using
Financial Data Taxonomy. Enhances and expedites data analysis using
the Informatica Data Catalog tool. Draws on in-depth knowledge of
the business or function to provide business unit-wide solutions by
developing complex, multi-faceted software applications. Research
and recommend new technologies in support of the strategic
direction of the business unit and participate in the research and
recommendation of appropriate models, methods, tools, and
technologies to achieve business-unit-wide solutions. Primary
Responsibilities: • Collaborates with business and technology
partners to understand requirements, identify data gaps, and
recommend strategic solutions across the domain. • Evaluates
objectives, use cases, data requirements, and specifications
created by other analysts. • Analyzes and resolves significant data
issues during projects or in production environments. • Advocates
for best practices in data analysis, including handling Personally
Identifiable Information (PII), information barriers, and licensed
data. • Defines precise conceptual and logical data models for
organizational needs across multiple subject areas. • Designs
physical structures for operational systems, data warehouses, and
data lakes. • Conducts targeted data analysis to identify risks. •
Documents and presents database solutions to stakeholders. • Stays
updated on technology trends, especially event-driven processing
and Data API developments. • Leads sessions to define requirements,
business terms, and logical data models. • Maps technical terms
into business terms using the data catalog tool. • Guides the use
of tools, techniques, and processes for complex data gathering,
analysis, and reporting within a large organization. • Identifies
opportunities to use enterprise data models in new projects, to
minimize work and avoid data duplication. • Mentors and supports
analysts, fostering their growth and development. Education and
Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer
Applications, Engineering, Information Technology, Information
Systems, or a closely related field (or foreign education
equivalent) and six (6) years of experience as a Director, Data
Analysis (or closely related occupation) performing data analysis
and data modeling in the financial services environment, using
Tableau, Power BI, and PowerDesigner. Or, alternatively, Master’s
degree in Computer Science, Computer Applications, Engineering,
Information Technology, Information Systems, or a closely related
field (or foreign education equivalent) and four (4) years of
experience as a Director, Data Analysis (or closely related
occupation) performing data analysis and data modeling in a
financial services environment, using Tableau, Power BI, and
PowerDesigner. Skills and Knowledge: Candidate must also possess: •
Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing data analytics for
business users based on requirements using SQL analytical functions
and Informatica EDC (Enterprise Data Catalog); creating and
implementing data quality checks to ensure the accuracy of data for
business use using Informatica EDQ; and providing data support to
data engineering teams during production implementation. • DE
creating Entity-Relational (ER) Data Models and Data Warehouse (DW)
Data Models-conceptual models (to be presented to information
architects), logical models (for business stakeholders), and
physical data models (to be implemented in databases); proposing,
designing, and implementing ER entity relationship or DW models
based on business requirements; creating conceptual, logical, and
physical data models using SAP PowerDesigner; and generating DDLs
(Data Definition Language) for physical implementation of tables
using SAP PowerDesigner. • DE acting as the liaison between
business and technology partners to translate business requirements
into technical design solutions; creating business requirement
documents in Microsoft Word to document requests from business
partners and define the technical components of work to be done by
data engineering teams; and collaborating with technology partners
to analyze data and create a Source-To-Target (STM) mapping
document using TOAD in MS Excel. • DE planning, designing, and
implementing DATA API signatures for RESTful APIs using OpenAPI
Specification (OAS); using the SwaggerHub platform for creating,
editing, and organizing API definitions; and collaborating with the
team members and using Swagger Hub API exploratory features for API
socialization.
Keywords: Fidelity Investments, Greensboro , Director, Data Analysis, IT / Software / Systems , Durham, North Carolina
