Senior Data Analyst - Finance Data Infrastructure

AllianceBernstein; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AllianceBernstein in Nashville is pursuing a data-centric role within Investment Infrastructure Research Data to consolidate quantitative data architectures and implement a modern data stack. You will own data onboarding, collaborate on licenses, and craft pipelines and quality controls for a scalable research ecosystem.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership from analysis to deployment, working with senior quantitative analysts and business partners to enable rapid onboarding and robust data

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance/ Economics, Operations Management, or Computer Science/Engineering, Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience as a business data analyst involved in enterprise data integration in the finance industry.
• Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Refinitiv QADirect, MSCI, BarraOne, et. al.
• 2+ years of experience writing SQL queries/Python to support data analysis preferred.
• Strong project management, analytical and quantitative skills.
• Data modeling and mapping skills, ability to identify business data types and entity relationships.
• Knowledge of financial instruments, market and fundamental research data.
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering analysis, functional design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks.
• Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts and business partners.
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support.
• Demonstrable curiosity in quantitative research.

Responsibilities

• Manage onboarding of new research datasets.
• Collaborate with market data team to secure new data trial and license agreements.
• Write data pipeline specifications, map external data to internal data model, develop test cases, review results, and oversee related development projects.
• Write data quality rule specifications, configure related metadata, and collaborate with the Research Data Oversight team.
• Author data writeups in the data catalog and configure related metadata.
• Manage permissions around licensed data sets.
• Continuously improve data management and oversight process with operations team to document data-related incidents and mitigate outages.

Skills

SQL

Python

Project management

Analytical skills

Quantitative research

Communication skills

Data modeling

Data mapping

Education

Finance/Economics/Operations/CS/Engineering degree

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Bloomberg

Refinitiv QADirect

MSCI

BarraOne

Job description

AllianceBernstein in Nashville is pursuing a data-centric role within Investment Infrastructure Research Data to consolidate quantitative data architectures and implement a modern data stack. You will own data onboarding, collaborate on licenses, and craft pipelines and quality controls for a scalable research ecosystem.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership from analysis to deployment, working with senior quantitative analysts and business partners to enable rapid onboarding and robust data