Engineering Manager, Analytics Platform

Dimensional Fund Advisors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Educational initiatives

Celebrations of company culture

Job summary

Dimensional Fund Advisors is seeking an experienced engineering leader to manage a team of data and backend engineers. This role involves leading the development of a modern analytics platform to enhance client management capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, particularly in Python, along with proven leadership skills. Responsibilities include team management, roadmap development, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. A commitment to cybersecurity and agile methodologies is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applicable experience in software engineering.
• 6+ years of experience managing people.
• Strong understanding of software architecture and programming methodologies.
• Experience with automated acceptance testing.
• Knowledge of best practices in IT operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers.
• Act as a liaison between engineering and business stakeholders.
• Own the full software development lifecycle.
• Develop and maintain long-term technical roadmaps.
• Identify resource gaps and optimize team performance.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Python

Cyber security

Agile/Scrum methodologies

Job description

About Dimensional

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients. The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer platforms powering the innovative, research‑driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives. Dimensional’s Data Distribution team is a strategic partnership between the Technology and Investment Engineering (IE) departments. Our mission is to provide performance services to drive interactive data analysis tools.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to manage a pivotal group of engineers within the firm. You will lead a group of data and backend engineers building a modern analytics platform for our clients. This platform will provide critical analytical and account launching/management tools to help our clients manage their businesses.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• Are open‑minded, curious, and resourceful.
• Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.
• Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies and solutions.
• Solve problems systematically and transparently.
• Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design, and solve collaboratively.
• Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and motivate a team of backend engineers, setting performance goals, fostering a collaborative environment while overseeing functions focused on data engineering and data‑intensive calculation services.
• Business Partnership: Act as a key liaison between engineering and business stakeholders to translate high‑level goals into actionable technical requirements.
• End‑to‑End Execution: Own the full software development lifecycle, ensuring consistent planning, execution, and high‑quality delivery of complex, integrated engineering projects. Own project deliverables. Identify risks/challenges/dependencies which may cause delays and work collaboratively to design mitigation plans and implement.
• Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain long‑term technical roadmaps aligned with product goals.
• Operational Excellence: Identify resource gaps, process bottlenecks, and technical debt to proactively optimize team velocity and quality of output.
• Strategic Trade‑offs: Negotiate priorities and navigate competing demands by providing data‑driven insights on technical feasibility and business impact.
• Communication: Serve as a key communicator across technical and non‑technical audiences, ensuring clarity on priorities, trade‑offs, and timelines to ensure alignment across the organization.
• Resource Management: Allocate work effectively to balance time‑to‑market with system coverage and stability.
• Technical Excellence: Collaborate and contribute to architecture design, incorporating best practices to ensure data‑driven, scalable and maintainable code.
• Documentation: Document and present technical artifacts to cross‑functional teams of stakeholders to maintain transparency and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applicable experience in software engineering.
• 6+ years of experience managing people.
• Knowledge of the python landscape.
• Well‑versed in pythonic/idiomatic solution design.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, programming, and development methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a fast‑paced environment.
• Experience in high performance and high availability applications including expertise in performance optimization and tuning.
• Experience with automated acceptance testing.
• Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design highly secure applications.
• Experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world‑class software implementations.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always‑up, always‑available service.
• Experienced in presenting to senior leadership on a recurring basis.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus.

Location / Work Mode

#LI-Remote

Benefits

Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.