Senior Associate, Investment Engineering (Analytics Platforms)

Dimensional Fund Advisors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dimensional Fund Advisors in Austin seeks an experienced Investment Engineering professional to architect data platforms, pipelines, and analytics tools for internal and client reporting.

You will lead end-to-end data product development, collaborate with Portfolio Management and Global Client Group, and drive data reliability, CI/CD, and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of hands-on experience with SQL, developing production-level Python, and engineering complex pipelines with large financial datasets.
• Deep proficiency in backend semantic layers and frontend BI solutions (Tableau/Power BI/Looker) or custom web apps.
• Proven ability to lead data engineering initiatives and manage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Architect, write code for, and optimize internal data platforms and self-service applications, ensuring secure, high-performance data access.
• Independently design and build automated data pipelines, semantic layers, and scalable data models translating investment workflows into production infrastructure.
• Set the technical benchmark by writing clean, testable code, conducting rigorous code reviews, and resolving complex debugging issues.
• Act as the technical translator and product owner, partnering with Portfolio Management and Global Client Group to gather requirements and engineer solutions.
• Own the end-to-end technical product lifecycle, managing feature roadmaps and CI/CD enhancements to guarantee uptime and data reliability.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Custom web apps

Job description

Job Description

Investment Engineering is part of the Investments Team within Dimensional. Investment Engineering is responsible for ownership of investment data and analysis tools, which means managing said data from acquisition through distribution, driving analysis to create insights from data, and creating the and analysis consumed by internal and external clients and reports. Investment Engineering is a hub group touching numerous areas of the implementation of the investment process and interacting with most other departments within Dimensional. Within Investment Engineering, the Analytics Platforms team creates tools, content, and reporting for clients to understand Dimensional's products and analyze how they might fit inside a client's portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Architect, write code for, and optimize internal data platforms and self-service applications, ensuring secure, high-performance user access to data.
• Independently design and build robust automated data pipelines, semantic layers, and scalable data models that cleanly translate complex investment workflows into production-grade infrastructure.
• Set the technical benchmark by writing clean, testable code, conducting rigorous code reviews, and resolving complex debugging issues.
• Act as the technical translator and product owner, partnering with departments like Portfolio Management and the Global Client Group to gather raw requirements and directly engineer technical solutions.
• Own the end-to-end technical product lifecycle, managing both product feature roadmaps and hands-on system enhancements to guarantee uptime, data reliability, and continuous deployment (CI/CD).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering, or a highly quantitative field.
• 7-10+ years of hands-on experience writing advanced SQL, developing production-level Python, and engineering complex pipelines with large financial datasets.
• Deep technical proficiency in designing and implementing backend semantic layers and frontend solutions using BI platforms like Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or custom web apps.
• Proven ability to independently build and scale data products from database ingestion to user interface. Experience translating abstract user feedback into concrete database schemas and system designs.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, driving data engineering strategies, executing complex technical initiatives, and managing senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional data storytelling skills, with a proven ability to translate complex technical architectures into clear concepts for investment professionals and business teams.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

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