MFS

MFS

DBT Investment Lead Data Engineer

Boston · Full-time

No sponsorship$110k-$159kDetected 16 hours ago
SQLSnowflakeAWSGCPAzureDevOpsdbtData AnalysisData EngineeringCommunicationCollaboration

About the role

  • This initiative enables enhanced investment decision making, risk management and client reporting for our multi-asset platform by delivering consistent, timely, accurate and user-friendly data to investors, risk teams and clients.
  • Are you a hands-on and detailed-oriented individual working on the cutting edge of financial instruments, investment data, and analytics?
  • Are you interested in investment data strategies across a wide variety of traditional and alternative asset classes?

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain data models in dbt (Data Build Tool) within Snowflake, implementing business logic and ensuring alignment with existing architecture and data standards.
  • Manage and contribute to dbt projects, ensuring code quality, proper documentation, and alignment with modular, scalable design patterns.
  • Design, build, and administer scalable data pipelines and a robust data warehouse to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases.
  • Lead and participate in all development activities, develop and implement solutions to meet business requirements that align with program strategic objectives
  • Drive continuous improvement of data quality, resiliency, control, efficiency, and monitoring
  • Partner with platform lead to design, develop, implement and deploy new software components to investment data platform
  • Partner with data architect to evaluate and finalize the unified data model
  • Partner with integration architect to upgrade and integrate data ingestion and data delivery tools with the unified data platform
  • Upgrade and integrate transformation tool, data validation tool and orchestration tools with the unified data platform to implement data engineering, analytical engineering and data maintenance capabilities.
  • Provide support during unexpected outages

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
  • 5-6+ years of experience in design, development and building data oriented complex applications.
  • Minimum of 2-4 years of hands-on progressive experience from SQL to Advanced SQL.
  • Development Experience in Cloud based PAAS platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google GCP or Amazon AWS
  • Deep understanding of Agile SDLC, DevOps and Cloud technologies required, in addition to exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments.
  • Experience with building solutions in the financial services domain with an understanding of financial instruments, transactions, and positions, is desired.

Nice to have

  • Experience working within the asset management industry and investment data domain, with exposure to multi-asset investment platforms and related data ecosystems.
  • Understanding of asset management concepts and knowledge of various financial instruments and products, including traditional and alternative asset classes.
  • Industry certifications in Snowflake, dbt, cloud data engineering platforms, data warehousing technologies, or financial markets/investment operations are highly valued.
  • Demonstrated interest in emerging AI technologies and an understanding of how AI-driven tools can improve day-to-day engineering processes, data quality, operational efficiency, and analytics workflows.
  • Familiarity with leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, or data engineering best practices to enhance productivity and continuous improvement initiatives is a plus.
  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
  • This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
  • Knowledge of and experience with Snowflake and other cloud native databases is highly preferred.

Compensation

  • MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)
  • $110,000.00 - $158,500.00This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.
  • At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation.
  • For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position.
  • This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education.
  • In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance.

Benefits

  • Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves
  • Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account
  • Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)
  • Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work.
  • We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them
  • If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email talent_acquisition@mfs.com for assistance.

Company info

  • We are looking for someone who thrives in an agile, collaborative, team-based environment, working closely with technology peers across MFS, investment professionals and key vendor partners.

Equal opportunity

  • Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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