Lead Software Engineer (Multiple Positions)

Location: Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, maintain, and lead efforts on quantitative solutions and tools that drive the investment discussion-making process for company's client base.

• Lead a highly motivated team, conveying your ideas succinctly and helping others realize and execute your vision.

• Recommend and implement cloud-based solutions using these services.

• Responsible for software development and testing.

• Design solutions for new methodologies.

• Code review.

• Understand and implement complex quantitative models.

• Ad-hoc data analysis.

• QAing model inputs and outputs, sometimes spanning billions of data records.

• Remote work requests will be considered consistent with company's remote work policy.

Requirements:

• This position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related Engineering field, or foreign equivalent and 5 years of relevant software engineering experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Scientist or a related position.

• Alternatively, we will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related Engineering field, or foreign equivalent and 3 years of relevant software engineering experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Data Scientist or a related position.

• This position also requires: experience with complex methodologies and integration into our suite of Python-based models;

• Experience with Python, pandas, and SQL programing, as well as master scripting-based Languages;

• Experience with finance and quantitative modeling; programming experience in any general-purpose language, either academic or professional, emphasizing code quality, clarity, style, and decomposition; experience with Apache Spark, Amazon Web Services ecosystem, including Lambda, EMR, EC2, Redshift, RDS, Athena, API Gateway, Cloudwatch, Step Function;

• Experience with DevOps tools, including Git, Jenkins, or Docker;

• Experience with Back-end XML, relational, and file-based databases, including SQL, Postgres, or HDFS;

• Experience with data visualization tools; and experience with UNIX/Linux including basic commands and shell scripting.

Must possess unrestricted right to work in the U.S. in this position.

Morningstar Research Services LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

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Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.