Principal Engineer - Research Systems

Job Overview

The Research Systems Principal Engineer will work on high-priority projects within Research Systems, embedding into the project team on a sustained basis, e.g. for our back-testing platform and for our forecasting system. The person will be a thought leader for projects, drive technical innovation and help the teams design and build high-quality solutions. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, both implementing features and capabilities, as well as mentoring and guiding other team members.
 

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction on architectural decisions and design. Anticipate upcoming challenges and proactively work on technical solutions to address

• Implement features and capabilities with a focus on value for the business, accelerating the overall delivery of the project and provide working solutions for challenging and key areas of platform

• Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks

• Conduct code reviews, enforce coding guidelines, contribute actively during pair programming sessions aimed at enhancing overall quality of delivered artifacts

• Lead and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness and high availability

• Participate in building a data and HPC platform that can meet the scalability and processing needs of Research and Research Systems

• Assist the team in investigating potential improvements achieved by adopting new data technologies and frameworks

• Achieve high quality metrics through automated testing, robust operational tooling and reliable designs

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline; at least 10 years of prior experience, financial services exposure is a plus

• Proven record of delivering solutions that are used in a production environment at scale and with high uptime requirements

• Proven record of building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)

• Solid experience dealing with large-scale deployments with high degrees of parallelism

• Experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

• Experience working with data lakes, data warehousing, and/or database systems, including data frameworks like Trino, Spark, Pandas/Polars, Iceberg, etc

• Experience with distributed compute frameworks and orchestration tools like Dask, Slurm, AWS Batch, Airflow, Prefect, etc

• Ability to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently

• Proficient in at least one major programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala) and comfortable working with SQL

• Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions

• Experience leading projects or teams is a plus

• Experience managing stakeholders and expectations

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