Senior Data Engineer

Boston, NH - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 175000 - 200000

Posted on: 19 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Acadian Asset Management is a global systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston with locations in Singapore London and Sydney we manage over $120 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwideincluding pension funds endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology rich datasets and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested diverse perspectives are welcomed and innovation thrives. Were united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work thats both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment strong benefits and a casual but focused office cultureall designed to support the meaningful collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

Building on a multi-decade history in quantitative equity Acadian has expanded its reach into multi-asset alternative equity and systematic credit. Acadians investment data engineering function is developing a platform to enhance its data capabilities enabling operations at significant scale across a broad array of asset classes. We are seeking a senior contributor to help design build and support a data platform that will drive our investment process. Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office three days a week.

What Youll Do:

Design and build a highly scalable data platform using various data storage and high-performance computing technologies on AWS.
Develop patterns frameworks and tooling to seamlessly integrate new data content and derived metrics while ensuring data quality.
Collaborate with data and technology teams to extend data quality capabilities and establish support practices for the investment data platform.
Participate in design reviews of advancements in Acadians investment decision systems to promote adoption and ensure seamless integration with the data platform.
Develop familiarity and expertise in investment data content and its role in Acadians investment strategies.
Maintain all aspects of daily investment process systems including production jobs.
Engineer solutions that are well-tested high-quality and extensible.

Were Looking for Teammates With:

Bachelors degree with an outstanding academic record in a technical field such as mathematics science or engineering; a CFA charter is a plus.
Superior software development data modeling and programming skills to move quickly from concept to solution with a solid understanding of the software development life cycle.
Significant hands-on development experience with Python for modeling/analytical work and SQL for data access and architecture using libraries such as Pandas Polars Ibis).
An understanding of the best fit for column key-value document relational time-series and file stores.
Experience working with AWS cloud services (e.g. S3 EC2 ECS) and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with data platforms and tools such as DuckDB ClickHouse MongoDB Iceberg PostgreSQL DynamoDB and Redis as well as orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster Airflow).
Creativity enthusiasm collegiality and the ability to excel in a self-starting environment.
A drive to deliver high-value projects with a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude.
Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to clearly articulate approaches and results in verbal graphical and written form.

The base salary range for this role is $175000 $200000per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidates skills qualifications and relevant addition to base pay this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensationand includes participation in Acadians comprehensive benefits program which includes health retirement and wellness offerings.

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:

Senior IC

Position Overview:

What Youll Do:

Design and build a highly scalable data platform using various data storage and high-performance computing technologies on AWS.
Develop patterns frameworks and tooling to seamlessly integrate new data content and derived metrics while ensuring data quality.
Collaborate with data and technology teams to extend data quality capabilities and establish support practices for the investment data platform.
Participate in design reviews of advancements in Acadians investment decision systems to promote adoption and ensure seamless integration with the data platform.
Develop familiarity and expertise in investment data content and its role in Acadians investment strategies.
Maintain all aspects of daily investment process systems including production jobs.
Engineer solutions that are well-tested high-quality and extensible.

Were Looking for Teammates With:

Bachelors degree with an outstanding academic record in a technical field such as mathematics science or engineering; a CFA charter is a plus.
Superior software development data modeling and programming skills to move quickly from concept to solution with a solid understanding of the software development life cycle.
Significant hands-on development experience with Python for modeling/analytical work and SQL for data access and architecture using libraries such as Pandas Polars Ibis).
An understanding of the best fit for column key-value document relational time-series and file stores.
Experience working with AWS cloud services (e.g. S3 EC2 ECS) and Kubernetes.
Familiarity with data platforms and tools such as DuckDB ClickHouse MongoDB Iceberg PostgreSQL DynamoDB and Redis as well as orchestration tools (e.g. Dagster Airflow).
Creativity enthusiasm collegiality and the ability to excel in a self-starting environment.
A drive to deliver high-value projects with a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude.
Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to clearly articulate approaches and results in verbal graphical and written form.

Required Experience:

Senior IC