Job Description Summary
For over forty years, HarbourVest has been home to a committed team of professionals with an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to deliver impactful solutions to our clients and investing partners. As our global firm grows, we continue to add individuals who seek a collaborative, open-door culture that values diversity and innovative thinking.
In our collegial environment that’s marked by low turnover and high energy, you’ll be inspired to grow and thrive. Here, you will be encouraged to build on your strengths and acquire new skills and experiences.
We are committed to fostering an environment of inclusion that promotes mutual respect among all employees. Understanding and valuing these differences optimizes the potential of both the individual and the firm.
HarbourVest is an equal opportunity employer.
This position will be a hybrid work arrangement. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval. For example, you may choose to work in the office 4 days per week and take one remote day weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.
Our Quantitative Investment Science group is looking for a motivated Data Operations Engineer to help produce innovative applications that create competitive advantage for HarbourVest in the Private Equity space. This engineer will contribute to this effort through their focus on source data, data analysis and data quality as well as process automation.
The ideal candidate is someone who is:A self-starter with a love for technology, software application delivery, and mathematical applications!
Excellent interpersonal and team collaboration capabilities
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills coupled with outstanding attention to detail
A passion for finance and financial markets
Own preparing data, testing and deploying financial applications
Run and monitor data pipelines and maintain test suites for data upload, data quality and validation purposes
Work with Data Engineering, DevOps and Application development teams on integrating automated testing with CI/CD processes
Contribute to improve data warehouse pipelines and modeling
Contribute to investment model research and design efforts providing deep data analysis
Monitor data workflows, troubleshoot failures, and implement alerting and logging.
Monitor data and pipeline health through KPIs
Own incident response and root-cause analysis for data issues.
Assist client partners with data integration, reporting, and tooling where needed.
Demonstrated ability in Data Engineering and Analysis
Proven experience with data-centric testing and deployment of FinTech based applications, data analysis, data pipelines and ETL for large datasets
Proficiency in MSSQL or equivalent SQL RDBMS
Proficiency in Python
Experience with DBT and Azure Data Factory and Pipelines
Experience with MS Synapse and Snowflake desired
Familiarity working in a scrum/agile SDLC environment
Familiarity with private equity financial data
Preferred but not vital: Business Intelligence and experience in Analytics applications
Bachelor of Science (B.S) or equivalent experience
Master of Science (M.S) or equivalent experience
3-5 Years of Data Operations Engineering experience preferred
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Salary Range
$132,000.00 - $198,000.00This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs. Our total rewards offerings are influenced by several business factors, and eligibility for certain components will vary by position and geography. Please note the posted ranges do not apply outside the U.S. and should not be converted to other currencies as a proxy for compensation in other countries.
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What We Do
HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm with 40 years of experience and more than $92 billion assets under management as of December 31, 2021. Our interwoven platform provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit.








