Hybrid Data Engineer for Private Markets — Remote Days

HarbourVest Partners; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

HarbourVest Partners is seeking an Associate for Investment Data And Analytics in Boston. The role combines hands-on data engineering with building expertise in private markets data, working under senior engineers to develop pipelines and datasets for investment and research teams.

You will contribute to data transformations, maintain production workflows, and support data quality and validation efforts while collaborating across engineering and investment groups.

Qualifications

• Data engineering and analysis experience with data-centric testing and deployment of FinTech applications.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python with experience building ETL pipelines for large datasets.
• Experience with DBT and Azure Data Factory and Pipelines; exposure to Snowflake, MS Synapse, or Power BI is a plus.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail; interest in financial markets; comfort in agile SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Data engineering — build, test, and deploy pipelines across financial datasets using modern data stacks.
• Infrastructure/Platform engineering — run and monitor production data workflows; implement CI/CD testing and alerting.
• Data Quality — validation checks, monitor KPIs, root-cause analysis for data issues.
• Collaboration — work with data engineering, DevOps, applications, and investment teams to deliver documented solutions.
• Problem solving — perform deep data analysis to support investment model research and automate manual processes.

Skills

SQL

Python

DBT

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

Snowflake

MS Synapse

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Master of Science in Computer Science

Tools

DBT

Azure Data Factory

Snowflake

MS Synapse

Power BI

Job description

HarbourVest Partners is seeking an Associate for Investment Data And Analytics in Boston. The role combines hands-on data engineering with building expertise in private markets data, working under senior engineers to develop pipelines and datasets for investment and research teams.

You will contribute to data transformations, maintain production workflows, and support data quality and validation efforts while collaborating across engineering and investment groups.