Lead Analytics Engineer

Lord Abbett; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking firm as a Lead Analytics Engineer, where you will shape the future of analytics platforms in the asset management industry. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead a talented team, design innovative solutions, and collaborate with experts in finance and technology. With a strong emphasis on teamwork and intellectual curiosity, you will contribute to the development of cutting-edge analytics tools that drive decision-making and enhance client experiences. If you're passionate about technology and finance, and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation

Retirement plans

Health and well-being plans

Discretionary bonuses

Qualifications

• 12+ years in application design, coding, testing, and debugging.
• 5+ years leading senior developers in the financial domain.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop equity and credit analytics platforms.
• Lead a team of developers to ensure productivity and alignment.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Project Ownership

Self-Starter

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science

Related Work Experience

Tools

Python

Java

SQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Spark

Git/GitHub

Jira

Job description

The Role

About Lord Abbett:

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

Lord Abbett is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Analytics Engineer to join our development team and contribute to the ongoing development of our analytics platforms. You will be expected to possess hands-on deep technical expertise in our tech stack, be familiar with various asset classes traded in fixed income and equity markets and stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends. We value team members who are driven to achieve results, maintain high quality standards, and exhibit a flexible entrepreneurial spirit in the face of scope changes. This position is a team lead role, requiring you to guide a team of senior developers, actively participate in strategic discussions, design solutions, and architect and drive projects to successful implementation. You will be joining a fast-moving team that requires the ability to work autonomously while also collaborating closely with others.

We’ll trust you to:

• Design, architect, and develop next-generation equity and credit analytics platforms.
• Collaborate closely with business partners and analysts to understand various asset classes and their relevant analytics, determine data requirements, and design the necessary data pipeline and database architecture.
• Design, implement and maintain data pipelines that can efficiently and reliably ingest and store data from a variety of internal and external sources.
• Develop robust quality control processing, monitoring, and workflow dashboards.
• Proficient in handling backend database work, well-versed in Python or Java, with the expertise to process and load data seamlessly into databases.
• Integrate risk and quantitative models.
• Simplify and automate existing manual data processes.
• Provide support for overnight batch jobs.
• Lead a team of developers, ensuring productivity and alignment with firm and team goals, fostering a highly engaged environment, and supporting ongoing career growth.
• Participate in strategic discussions.
• Work closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and analysts.

What makes this role interesting?

• The Investment Analytics Technology team is currently investing significantly in building out credit analytics platforms.
• The candidate will have significant opportunities to contribute to this project at the ground level.
• The candidate will work alongside an established team of developers, quantitative analysts, and portfolio managers to create analytics platforms encompassing quantitative modeling, risk analytics, and data insights.
• The candidate will work closely with professional investment staff and expand their financial knowledge across asset classes, markets, and instruments.
• The candidate will develop a roadmap and implement strategies to enhance cloud data and compute utilization.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience.
• 12+ years of expertise in application design, coding, testing, maintenance, and debugging.
• 5+ years of experience in leading a team of senior developers in the financial domain.
• Experience creating and maintaining Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models.
• Experience in building data pipelines, designing data models, and architecting data systems from the ground up.
• Skilled in developing Python APIs and writing code for loading and processing data.
• Experience in writing complex SQL queries, stored procedures, functions, and query optimization performance tuning.
• Strong proficiency in Java, REST, Microservices, Spring Boot, and API gateway.
• Experience working with various cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Spark, and their associated tools.
• Ability to identify opportunities to reuse data and reduce redundancy across the enterprise.
• Experience with Git/GitHub.
• Experience with DevOps tools like Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins).
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, as well as queuing technologies and other related tools.

Skills:

• Strong analytical skills.
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks.
• Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts, risk analysts and business partners.
• Team leads skills.
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support.
• Candidate must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team player.

Special Knowledge:

• Experience working in the finance industry.
• Experience in building or managing security master data systems.
• Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Markit, ICE/BAML, S&P, Moody's, Fitch, Russell, Intex, JPM, FactSet, State Street, CRD, and Yield Book.
• Experience working on distributed system and handling & processing of large-scale data (trades, risk, market data etc.).
• Knowledge of fixed income analytics for asset types such as corporate bonds, Treasuries, Derivatives, Sovereigns, Bank Loans, MBS, ABS, and CLO.

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Compensation Information:

Annual base salary for this role is $170,000 - $215,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus:

Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits:

Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett.

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

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