Williamblair

Williamblair

Data & AI Engineer – Equities Technology

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$161kDetected 48 days ago
PythonC#.NETSQLSnowflakeDatabricksAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDDevOpsRESTSparkData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsRAGComplianceAgileResearchCommunicationCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Join William Blair, the Premier Global Partnership.
  • This role spans the full software development lifecycle and is responsible for moving data and AI solutions from concept through production, while ensuring reliability, security, and compliance with firm standards.
  • The ideal candidate brings strong data engineering fundamentals combined with hands‑on experience integrating AI and LLM‑based capabilities into production systems in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Synapse
  • Implement robust ETL/ELT workflows for structured and unstructured financial data across on‑prem and cloud platforms
  • Design and optimize data models and analytical schemas (star/snowflake, partitioning, distribution strategies)
  • Build reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks to support analytics and AI workloads
  • Implement LLM‑based and agentic patterns, including Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), using proprietary firm data
  • Partner with Data Science and business stakeholders to translate AI concepts into production‑ready solutions
  • Optimize prompts, embeddings, orchestration logic, and inference workflows for accuracy, performance, cost, and reliability
  • Support migration of legacy data and application solutions (SQL, SSIS, Synapse, custom ETLs) to modern Azure‑native architectures
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and YAML, following infrastructure‑as‑code and automation best practices
  • Leverage Azure services (Functions, Key Vault, Logic Apps, Automation Runbooks) to build secure, reliable, and maintainable solutions

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field
  • 4-6+ years of hands‑on experience with Databricks, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Python, ADLS, and Azure Functions

Nice to have

  • Hands‑on experience with Azure AI Services, including OpenAI, embeddings
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric (future roadmap alignment)
  • Proficiency in ASP.NET,.NET Core, or C#
  • Background in financial services, capital markets, or other regulated environments

Compensation

  • $130,000 - $160,800 USD
  • About Our Firm
  • William Blair strives to attract qualified candidates who specialize in investment banking, investment management, private wealth management, and other strategic resource groups.
  • We are committed to empowering our colleagues to deliver client success and engage in our communities.
  • Our firm has delivered trusted advice for nine decades, continuing to deepen our expertise and relationships across asset classes and markets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
  • We provide advisory services, strategies, and solutions to meet clients' evolving needs amid dynamic market conditions and varying industries.

Benefits

  • Build and deploy AI‑enabled services, agents, and workflows supporting equity research, trading, sales, and client service use cases
  • Develop operational dashboards to monitor pipeline health, SLAs, system performance, and cloud spend

Company info

  • William Blair does not use instant messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, or iMessage as part of the recruiting or interviewing process.

Equal opportunity

  • William Blair is an equal opportunity employer.
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