Strategic Director, Investment Data & Analytics

Transamerica; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Plan

401k Match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Employee Discounts

Career Training & Development

Job summary

Transamerica is seeking a highly strategic Principal/Director of Investment Data Engineering & Visualization to lead the design, development, and evolution of our investment data platform and analytics capabilities.

You will own the end-to-end investment data lifecycle, transforming complex financial data into trusted insights that power investment decisions, portfolio management, client reporting, and business growth. A fast-paced environment requires strategic vision and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 10–15 years in data engineering, analytics, or data-platform leadership.
• Experience in asset management, wealth management, or capital markets.
• Strong understanding of portfolio management, risk, performance measurement, and investment data concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision, roadmap, and operating model for investment data and analytics.
• Build scalable cloud-native data platforms and data pipelines for market, reference, and portfolio data.
• Create dashboards and visualizations for executives, investment teams, and clients.
• Lead and grow a high-performing data engineering and analytics team.
• Partner with product and investment teams to turn data assets into differentiated products.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

Data warehousing

Leadership

Visualization

Power BI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure/AWS/GCP

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Transamerica is seeking a highly strategic Principal/Director of Investment Data Engineering & Visualization to lead the design, development, and evolution of our investment data platform and analytics capabilities.

You will own the end-to-end investment data lifecycle, transforming complex financial data into trusted insights that power investment decisions, portfolio management, client reporting, and business growth. A fast-paced environment requires strategic vision and hands-on leadership.