Manager, Portfolio Tools Engineering
Manager, Portfolio Tools Engineering
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Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Bostonheadquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore London and Sydney. As of March 31 2025 the firm managed approximately US$121 billion on behalf of major pension funds endowments foundations governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.
Position Overview:
This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firms flagship internal software products delivering a marketleading portfolio management and decomposition platform that provides a competitive edge in systematic investing.
Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are onsite in the Boston office 3 days a week.
What Youll Do:
- Lead and manage a team of highly skilled portfolio tools engineers/fullstack engineers developing and enhancing a suite of portfolio management tools focused on decomposition attribution risk analysis and transparency across portfolios.
- Architect and build the nextgeneration version of the portfolio decomposition and analytics platform ensuring it is extremely fast flexible and scalable to meet the evolving needs of portfolio managers.
- Develop and maintain a rich configurationbased language that enables portfolio managers to slice and dice portfolios at multiple levels (portfoliolevel assetclass level etc.).
- Enhance capabilities for portfoliolevel decomposition of weights returns and risks allowing detailed breakdowns by classifications geographies strategies factors and asset classes.
- Design and implement enterprisegrade investment applications that are robust battletested and optimized for performance and usability.
- Work sidebyside with portfolio managers across equities credit and multistrategy in Boston Singapore London and Sydney ensuring the tools align with their investment workflows.
- Ensure seamless integration of realtime investment insights into portfolio managers decisionmaking processes enabling them to answer questions on the spot without dependencies on other teams.
- Set direction for engineering ensuring best practices in software architecture scalability and maintainability while remaining handson in development.
- Drive innovation in investment data workflows optimizing how portfolio data is processed stored and queried to provide instantaneous insights.
- Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers risk teams and data engineers to ensure the investment stack is wellintegrated and efficient.
- Leverage technologies such as Python React JavaScript Streamlit Dash and other data application frameworks to create intuitive highperformance tools.
- Foster a highperformance engineering culture ensuring bestinclass code quality execution speed and maintainability.
Were Looking for Teammates With:
- Extensive experience (10 years) of leading and managing fullstack engineering teams in a quantitative finance hedge fund or asset management environment.
- CFA designation is a plus.
- Deep domain knowledge of the pretrade investment process including portfolio construction risk management and factorbased investing.
- Handson expertise in developing financial applications using Python React JavaScript and related technologies.
- Experience working with portfolio decomposition attribution risk modeling and classification frameworks.
- Strong understanding of investment data structures and the full investment technology stack including data modeling storage and retrieval at scale.
- Prior experience building highperformance lowlatency investment tools that enable realtime analysis and decisionmaking.
- Familiarity with data visualization and interactive frameworks such as Streamlit Dash and webbased analytics applications.
- Strong leadership and technical visionsetting skills with the ability to drive execution while maintaining a handson role in development.
- A track record of delivering scalable flexible software platforms that enhance portfolio transparency and decisionmaking.
- Additional qualities which would be preferred include:
- Understanding of quantitative investment strategies such as those used by Acadian or other quantitative equity managers
- Ability to work as an effective team player as well as a selfstarter who is willing to roll up their sleeves to help accomplish team goals
- Ability to work well in a fastpaced quickly changing environment with time deadlines
Why Work Here:
Acadian is a quantitative investment firm where ideas are empowered by technology. Our team is made up of a diverse mix of professionals who thrive in a culture that fosters ingenuity through collaboration and transparency. We offer a casual office environment topnotch benefits and excellent professional and personal development opportunities.
To apply for this position or view Acadians open roles please visit the Careers section of our website at: We will contact only selected candidates. If you are a candidate with a disability or are assisting a candidate with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs please email us at
Acadian Asset Management LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. No employee or applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of gender race creed color sex age national origin marital status pregnancy or parenthood veteran status citizenship status disability gender identity or sexual orientation.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
