Data Platform Engineer - Private Markets

Harbourvest Partners (U.K.) Limited; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

HarbourVest Partners (U.K.) Limited in Boston is seeking a hands-on data engineer for the Investment Data and Analytics team. The role blends development and production responsibilities, including building, testing, and operating data pipelines and datasets used by investment and research teams.

You will work with SQL, Python, DBT, and Azure tools in a scrum environment, contributing to data quality, governance, and scalable FinTech data solutions.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of data engineering or data operations experience.
• Experience with private equity or investment data is a plus.
• Strong SQL (MSSQL or equivalent) and Python skills.
• Familiarity with data testing and validation in ETL pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Data engineering — build, test, and deploy pipelines and transformations across financial/economic datasets using modern data stacks.
• Infrastructure/platform engineering — run and monitor production data workflows, troubleshoot failures, and implement alerting, logging, and automated testing within CI/CD.
• Data Quality — develop validation and reconciliation checks, monitor pipeline health through KPIs, and own root‑cause analysis for data issues.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

ETL pipelines

DBT

Azure Data Factory

Snowflake

Power BI

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

SQL Server (MSSQL)

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Job description

HarbourVest Partners (U.K.) Limited in Boston is seeking a hands-on data engineer for the Investment Data and Analytics team. The role blends development and production responsibilities, including building, testing, and operating data pipelines and datasets used by investment and research teams.

You will work with SQL, Python, DBT, and Azure tools in a scrum environment, contributing to data quality, governance, and scalable FinTech data solutions.