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Engineering Manager, Analytics Platform

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 6+ years of experience managing people
  • Knowledge of the Python landscape and Pythonic/idiomatic solution design
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, programming, and development methodologies

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor and motivate a team of backend engineers, overseeing data engineering and data-intensive calculation services.
  • Act as a liaison between engineering and business stakeholders to translate high-level goals into actionable technical requirements.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle, ensuring planning, execution, and high-quality delivery of complex, integrated engineering projects; identify risks and dependencies and design mitigation plans.
  • Develop and maintain long-term technical roadmaps aligned with product goals.

About the company

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Dimensional Fund Advisors

Financial Services

Dimensional is a leading global investment firm that has been translating academic research into practical investment solutions since 1981. Guided by a strong belief in markets, we help investors pursue higher expected returns through a systematic investment process that integrates research insights with advanced portfolio design, management, and trading while balancing tradeoffs that can impact returns. Dimensional is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has 15 global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. As of September 30, 2023, Dimensional manages $618 billion for investors worldwide. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. *“Dimensional” refers to the Dimensional separate but affiliated entities generally, rather than to one particular entity. These entities are Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd., DFA Australia Limited, Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC, Dimensional Fund Advisors Pte. Ltd., Dimensional Ireland Limited, Dimensional Japan Ltd., and Dimensional Hong Kong Limited. Dimensional Hong Kong Limited is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission to conduct Type 1 (dealing in securities) regulated activities only and does not provide asset management services. Terms and Conditions and Important Disclosure: www.dimensional.com/social-media-terms-and-conditions

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryFinancial Services
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Job Description:

About Dimensional: 

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.   

 

The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer platforms powering the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives.  

 

Dimensional's Data Distribution team is a strategic partnership between the Technology and Investment Engineering (IE) departments. Our mission is to provide performance services to drive interactive data analysis tools. 

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to manage a pivotal group of engineers within the firm. You will lead a group of data and backend engineers building a modern analytics platform for our clients. This platform will provide critical analytical and account launching/management tools to help our clients manage their businesses. 

 

 

You may be a fit for this role if you: 

  • Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful.   

  • Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.   

  • Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies and solutions. 

  • Solve problems systematically and transparently.   

  • Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design, and solve collaboratively.   

  • Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets.   

 

 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and motivate a team of backend engineers, setting performance goals, fostering a collaborative environment while overseeing functions focused on data engineering and data-intensive calculation services. 

  • Business Partnership:Act as a key liaison between engineering and business stakeholders to translate high-level goals into actionable technical requirements. 

  • End-to-End Execution:Own the full software development lifecycle, ensuring consistent planning, execution, and high-quality delivery of complex, integrated engineering projects. Own project deliverables. Identify risks/challenges/dependencies which may cause delays and work collaboratively to design mitigation plans and implement. 

  • Roadmap Management:Develop and maintain long-term technical roadmaps aligned with product goals. 

  • Operational Excellence:Identify resource gaps, process bottlenecks, and technical debt to proactively optimize team velocity and quality of output. 

  • Strategic Tradeoffs:Negotiate priorities and navigate competing demands by providing data-driven insights on technical feasibility and business impact. 

  • Communication: Serve as a key communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring clarity on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines to ensure alignment across the organization. 

  • Resource Management: Allocate work effectively to balance time-to-market with system coverage and stability. 

  • Technical Excellence: Collaborate and contribute to architecture design, incorporating best practices to ensure data-driven, scalable and maintainable code. 

  • Documentation: Document and present technical artifacts to cross-functional teams of stakeholders to maintain transparency and knowledge transfer. 

Qualifications 

  • 10+ years of applicable experience in software engineering 

  • 6+ years of experience managing people 

  • Knowledge of the python landscape 

  • Well-versed in pythonic/idiomatic solution design 

  • Strong understanding of software architecture, programming, and development methodologies 

  • Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a fast-paced environment 

  • Experience in high performance and high availability applications including expertise in performance optimization and tuning 

  • Experience with automated acceptance testing 

  • Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design highly secure applications 

  • Experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations 

  • Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service 

  • Experienced in presenting to senior leadership on a recurring basis 

  • Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus

  • #LI-Remote

 

    

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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