FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
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Your Team Impact
FactSet's Funds Engineering team under DSE is focused on delivering Funds data (e.g., fund expense ratio, daily price & info data) coming from different sources by providing database solutions and automated processes which follow an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) procedure. FactSet has third party funds feeds where data received from vendors and load into FactSet Databases. We also manage funds data distribution services, routinely increasing efficiency year over year through automation. We are looking for a candidate who is independent, driven, mentor, experienced in grooming the team, help them to grow, has strong communication skills and technical knowledge, who will help the team contribute to the company’s goals and help to provide our clients with the data they need to make informed decisions.
What You'll Do
Experience in designing developing, and deploying applications, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and maintainable.
Should be able to lead large scale technical projects
Provide technical leadership to the development team, guiding architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
Code quality through code reviews, mentoring, and the establishment of best practices and coding standards.
Excellent organization and time management skills (Time Management)
Should collaborate with stakeholders and healthy technical discussions engineering team.
Should adopt to new technologies and removing technical roadblocks
Work in agile team environments collaborating with internal teams
Supplements technical decision-making skills with broader business knowledge
What We’re Looking For
8-14 years of overall industry experience.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or any related courses.
Has strong Software development fundamentals - Foundation for evaluating good design and development practices
Analytical problem solving Decompose complex problems and operational events
Patience and ability to teach/mentor others
Experience developing and deploying production software
To effectively mentor others in the process for developing and ensuring high quality solutions
Strong organizational and context switching ability
Effectively handle multiple projects, with different agendas and projects moving forward simultaneously
Team building and ability to motivate others, Encourage a positive, constructive, and collaborative work environment and retain top talent
Strong written and oral communication Interact with peer, team member, and remote stakeholders/managers effectively
Proficiency in Python
Experience with Database Relational database ( MYSQL, POSTGRES, MSSQL or similar RDBMS)
Experience on Cloud Technology Amazon AWS, etc.
Flexible with time zones / shifts
Experience with GitHub-based development processes
Desired Skills
- Good to have AI exposure.
What's In It For You
At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:
The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
Learn more about our benefits here.
Company Overview:
FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
Skills Required
- 8-14 years of overall industry experience
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- Strong software development fundamentals
- Analytical problem-solving ability
- Ability to teach and mentor others
- Experience developing and deploying production software
- Experience mentoring others in developing high-quality solutions
- Strong organizational and context-switching ability
- Ability to effectively handle multiple projects simultaneously
- Team-building and talent-motivation ability
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, or similar RDBMS
- Experience with cloud technology such as Amazon AWS
- Flexibility with time zones and shifts
- Experience with GitHub-based development processes
- AI exposure
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
Factset Insights
What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions. For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year. As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
