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HarbourVest PartnersPosted 1 month ago

Junior Quantitative Investment Engineer

$95,000–$105,000 year

HybridBoston, Massachusetts, United States

Full TimeEntry LevelLarge

Job Summary

Capture business requirements and translate them into technical solutions, integrations, system designs, tests, transformations, and reports. Build working relationships with investment teams, developers, vendors, and suppliers to advance end-to-end solutions within a cloud-based data analytics platform. Create project artifacts, identify and document new datasets, and develop functional prototypes using SQL and Python to remedy data exceptions. Collaborate on onboarding large datasets while validating quality and facilitating agile development practices. This role supports the Quantitative Investment Science team's mission to enhance investment decision-making in private markets through data-driven research.

Required Qualifications

  • High energy and collaborative work style
  • Flexibility and willingness to tackle a broad range of analysis, testing, and support assignments
  • Proficient in SQL and data analysis skills
  • Data modeling and design understanding, including conceptual and logical modeling
  • Experience in onboarding new, large datasets, with structured and unstructured data while validating quality
  • Proficient in Python
  • A track record of completed high-intensity, high-complexity projects
  • Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent
  • Understanding of DevOps, CI/CD practices, and tools
  • 1-3 Years of business analyst experience in the investment management or FinTech industry
  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A) degree or equivalent experience
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S) credential or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with investment data management especially IBOR or other book of records systems
  • Is curious and willing to keep asking 'why?', continually learning about key business processes to help identify potential improvements
  • Has strong analytical and problem solving skills, the skill to dissect and detail complicated situations and propose creative process & technical solutions
  • Possesses excellent facilitation, interpersonal skills, and can communicate optimally at all levels, in all forms, and to all functional groups
  • Can facilitate multiple intricate projects at a given time
  • Understands how to elicit and document requirements and issues into appropriate contexts
  • Has experience with agile software development methodologies and tools
  • Experience with business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or equivalent

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