Principal - Database Administrator

**Job Title - Principal - Database Administrator**

**The Purpose of This Role**:
**The Value You Deliver**:
As a Principal Database Administrator, you will bring your technology expertise, design and administration skills to create unique state-of-the-art database systems for Green Meadows.

**The Skills that are Key to this role**:
**Required**:
**Technical skills**:

- Experience in administering MongoDB
- Experience in managing any RDBM system. MariaDB/MySQL is preferable.
- Strong knowledge and experience in installing, configuring, and upgrading MongoDB databases, as well as general administration.
- Capable of providing technical guidance to the team
- Ability to research, review and recommend DB performance tuning opportunities
- Schema design, performance tuning, query optimization, backup solutions (Physical and Logical) Replica set (elections, read/write concerns, arbiters) etc.
- Managing MongoDB Oplog and journals.
- Design indexing strategies and Sharding
- Scripting/automation tooling (bash/python and Ansible) experience is a must.
- Experience in CI/CD, DevOps using tools like Udeploy, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Git.
- Cross-functional training in NoSQL, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps methodologies are encouraged.
- Experience in containerization technologies such as ECS and Docker

**Behavioral Attributes**:

- Ability to effectively multi-task and manage his/her time, and the ability to work independently as well as within a team environment
- Proven ability to improve support processes and customer experience
- Demonstrated technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Customer focus and dedication to customer satisfaction

**The Skills that are good to have for this role***:

- Work experience on trending cloud solutions (AWS/Azure /GCP) - Preferably AWS
- Brokerage systems knowledge
- Adept at version control tools GIT Stash, build tools like Maven.
- Knowledge in working of REST APIs, ability to read documentation and make calls to read or write data using API is a plus.

**How Your Work Impacts the Organization**:
At Fidelity, we are focused on making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want— from the 23 million people investing their life savings, to the 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits programs, to the10,000 advisors and institutions needing innovative technology solutions to invest their clients’ money. To do this well, as a privately held company, we place a high degree of value in nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to being an employer of choice.

FCAT - Fidelity Center of Applied Technology - is a centralized function whose mandate is to catalyze innovation across the firm. Our FCAT teams’ prototype and pilot new businesses and capabilities that continue to distinguish our brand as the best customer experience in the financial services industry. These teams focus on exploring big industry game-changing technologies such as crypto currencies, artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality & cloud computing. Additionally, FCAT’s world class research team identifies trends and works with partners across the innovation ecosystem to “bring the outside in.” We collaborate with MIT, Harvard, Stanford and other academic institutions, and partner with Accelerators, Start Ups and other industry leaders to drive new ideas and innovation practices across the firm.

**The Expertise We’re Looking For**:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or any other discipline
8+ years of IT experience

**Certifications**:
Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer.