Manager, Investment Engineering (Analytics Platforms)
HybridAustin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Lead the design, build, and evolution of a highly scalable, secure, and resilient data platform architecture that unifies multi-source investment data for batch and real-time processing. Architect data infrastructure optimized to serve high-concurrency client-facing digital tools and low-latency internal analytics applications while implementing robust data patterns and optimized compute layers. Manage, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing investment engineers by participating in system design, writing core framework code, and conducting critical code reviews. Establish comprehensive data quality frameworks, lineage tracking, and security controls to guarantee trust and compliance across all data products. Collaborate with downstream application teams, product managers, and technology executives to define data contracts, SLAs, and infrastructure roadmaps that support company-wide data monetization and analysis.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or similar technical discipline
- Relevant experience considered in lieu of specific degree
- 10+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
- Proven track record of architecting enterprise data platforms
- Deep expertise in production Python
- Advanced SQL tuning
- Experience with orchestrators (e.g. Airflow)
- Experience with comprehensive testing
- Experience with data transformation frameworks (e.g. dbt)
- Strong experience designing robust APIs
- Strong experience designing streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka)
- Master-level understanding of data warehousing concepts
- Master-level understanding of semantic layer design
- Understanding of diverse modeling methodologies tailored for financial markets or portfolio analytics
- 3+ years of direct engineering management experience
- Demonstrated ability to recruit top talent
- Ability to interface with centralized Technology teams
- Ability to balance technical debt with feature delivery
- Familiarity with institutional investment datasets (e.g., security master, corporate actions, fundamental data, returns, or market data feeds from vendors like Bloomberg, FactSet, or MSCI)
- This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship
- Resumes and portfolios (when applicable) are required as part of your application
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