Data Engineer

We are seeking a Nashville based Data Engineer to join our Equity Investment Management Technology Research team.

The Equity Investment Management Technology ("EIMT") team creates software to support the research, portfolio management, and trading activities for our institutional and private client equity products. This role is within the EIMT - Research team which supports an established business team of buy side equity quantitative and research analysts. Members of this team are focused on solutions surrounding market data and investment models used for managing equity products.

The EIMT Research Data Engineer is a key role for our firm providing focused on enhancing the equity data architecture to provide rapid data onboarding, quality control, accessibility, and business insights.

The Data Engineer will focus on building out infrastructure and frameworks using cloud-based distributed compute and storage technologies, continuous integration and deployment tools, data pipeline orchestration, non-SQL and traditional data warehousing (RDMS) technology.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Automation of data ingestion supporting various sources and formats both external and internal.
• Implementing a quality control framework for ensuring data consistency.
• Cataloging new data sets to facilitate data discovery, lineage, and self-service.
• Building business intelligence dashboards to provide data insights.
• Assist with ad-hoc data and research requests from the investment team.
• Provide support for overnight jobs.

What makes this role unique or interesting?

This role provides the opportunity to experience the full lifecycle of building investment decisions from onboarding data to evaluating factor performance while applying modern processing concepts using cloud based solutions.

This role provides opportunity in the following areas:

• Learning the equity investment business and engaging directly with investment professionals
• Automating complex data loads and pipelines
• Onboard alternative datasets including learning how to web scrape
• Best practices managing large data sets
• Building technical skills including SQL, Python, and PowerBI
• Working with cloud-based technologies including data lakes, data pipelines, and data warehouses

Qualifications, Experience, Education:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering, Finance, Mathematics/Statistics or a related major
• 5+ years programming in SQL with experience in relational schema designs and optimizing query performance
• 2+ years using Python or another object oriented language (C#, Java)
• Experience building both data ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Azure Synapse, Amazon Redshift or Google BigQuery.
• Building visualizations using PowerBI, Tableau, or Qlik, is a strong plus

Skills:

• Solid analytical and technical skills
• Candidate must be willing to take ownership of projects and show strong client commitment
• Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with business users
• Self starter as well as a good team player
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support

Special Knowledge (Nice to have but not necessary):

• Experience with database migration projects
• Experience using Airflow
• Experience working in the financial industry or knowledge of basic financial statement concepts

Location: Nashville, TN

As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients' most valued asset-management partner.

With over 4,400 employees across 51 locations in 25 countries, our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we're looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you're ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us
Nashville, Tennessee