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Associate, Investment Engineering (Data Solutions)

Dimensional Fund Advisors
Posted a month ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Austin, TX 78714, US

Salary

$85,000 - $102,000 per year

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Dimensional's Investment Engineering department is seeking an Associate to support the Fixed Income Data team, focusing on the analysis and management of investment data.
  • The role requires 3-5+ years of experience with large investment datasets and proficiency in SQL, Python, or similar data management tools.
  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, with a preference for those holding a Master’s degree or professional certifications like CFA.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, although the exact amount is not specified in the job description.
  • The successful candidate will collaborate with various internal teams, ensuring the delivery of accurate and timely investment data solutions.

Job Description:

Dimensional's Investment Engineering department is responsible for ownership of investment data, which means managing data from acquisition through distribution, driving analysis to create information from data, and creating the information and analysis consumed by internal and external reports. Investment Engineering is a hub group touching numerous areas of the implementation of the investment process and interacting with most other departments within Dimensional.

The Data Solutions team's primary responsibilities involve overseeing the incoming base-level data and the centralized management and distribution of investment data to Dimensional’s internal Portfolio Management, Trading, and Reporting systems. 

 

The Data Solutions team seeks an Associate capable of supporting key initiatives underpinning our daily implementation process. This role will work within the Fixed Income Data team to analyze the quality of Fixed Income investment data within Dimensional, including security reference, prices, ratings, and all other data crucial to the investment process. They will be a subject matter expert in the team’s existing data products and work to design new products.Success in this role will mean delivering clean, accurate data to internal as well as external clients in a timely manner, being creative at finding different ways to analyze and present relevant investment dataand enhancing operational efficiencies at Dimensional to deliver value-added investment solutions to our clients. 

 

Responsibilities: 

  • Support Dimensional'sFixed Income investment processesby ensuring tools and systems are built withappropriate business logic. 

  • Compile, cleanse, and manage large data sets from multiple sources to support investment systems. 

  • Research and evaluate vendor data to assess quality and recommendoptimal consumption patterns. 

  • Conduct data analysisusing SQL Server, Snowflake, and other structured/unstructured database technologies. 

  • Partner with Portfolio Management toaddress portfolio construction questions and perform related analysis.  

  • Collaborate with internal clients to gather and define requirements for core business systems, and then design, build, and test data pipelines in partnership with data engineer resources. 

  • Assist in shaping data architecture for internal distribution of investment data, including defining and building data structures forend-user consumption. 

  • Drive efficiency through automation, process design, and implementation. 

  • Mentor and provide guidance to junior analysts, fostering skill development and knowledge-sharing across the team  

 

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelor's degree inFinance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Master’s degree and/or professional certifications (e.g.CFA)preferred. 

  • 3-5+ years of experience working with large investment datasets, performing quantitative analysis, and leveraging SQL, Python, or similar data management tools. 

  • Strongly preferred: experience working with Fixed Income data sets and vendor platforms (Bloomberg, Factset, Refinitiv, Morningstar, etc.). 

  • Demonstrated interest and passionfor financial markets. 

  • Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams, writing business requirements, and communicating effectively with software engineers. 

  • Self-starter with proven ability to manage multiple projects and meetdeadlines. 

  • Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills. 

  • Attention to detail withthe ability to connectfindings to broader objectives and goals.  

  • Excellent communicationskillswith the ability to convey complex ideas andbridge investment professionals and engineering teams. 

    

Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.  The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates. 




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