Senior Data Engineer - Build A Scalable Data Platform

Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London and Sydney. As of December 31, 2023, the firm managed approximately US$103 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.

Position Overview:

Building on a multi-decade history in quantitative equity, Acadian has expanded its reach into multi asset class, alternative equity, and systematic credit. The investment data engineering function will build a platform that will expand our data capabilities to operate at significant scale across a broad array of asset classes. We're looking for a senior contributor to help design, build and support a data platform that will drive our investment process.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment, employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You'll Do:

• Design and build a highly scalable data platform utilizing a variety of data store and high-performance compute technologies on AWS.

• Build robust and efficient pipelines to swiftly incorporate new content and derived measures into the data platform.

• Work with the enterprise data management and technology teams to migrate our data environment to the cloud, extend our data quality practices and establish support practices for the investment data platform.

• Participate in the design review of advancements in Acadian's investment decision systems to promote adoption and ensure smooth integration of the data platform.

• Develop familiarity and expertise in investment data content and its importance to Acadian's investment strategies.

• Maintain all aspects of the daily investment process systems including production jobs.

• Engineer solutions that are well-tested, high quality and extensible.

We're Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor's degree with an outstanding academic record in a technical field such as mathematics, science, or engineering; CFA charter is a plus

• Outstanding analytic skills and the ability to clearly articulate approach and results in verbal, graphical and written form

• Creativity, enthusiasm, collegiality, and the ability to excel in a self-starting environment

• Drive and humility to deliver on high-value projects and roll-up-your sleeves attitude

• Hands on development experience with Python (Pandas, NumPy) for modeling/analytical work and SQL for data access and architecture; AWS or other cloud infrastructure

• Understands the best fit for column, key-value, document, relational, time-series and file stores

• Working experience with AWS Cloud services (e.g. S3, EC2, ECS) with Terraform

• Familiarity with data platforms such as Spark, MongoDB, Parquet, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Redis

• Superior software, data modeling, profiling and programming skills to move quickly from concept to solution with solid understanding of software system development life cycles

Why Work Here:

Acadian is a quantitative investment firm where ideas are empowered by technology. Our team is made up of a diverse mix of professionals who thrive in a culture that fosters ingenuity through collaboration and transparency. We offer a casual office environment, top-notch benefits, and excellent professional and personal development opportunities.

To apply for this position or view Acadian's open roles, please visit the Careers section of our website at: http://www.acadian-asset.com/careers/Job-opportunities. We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at recruiting@acadian-asset.com.

Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, marital status, pregnancy or parenthood, veteran status, citizenship status, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.