Manager, Investment Engineering (Analytics Platforms)

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Austin, TX, USA
In-Office
Expert/Leader
Financial Services
The Role
Lead design and operation of a scalable data platform for investment analytics; architect batch and real-time pipelines; ensure data quality, lineage, and security; serve high-concurrency client tools; mentor engineers; define data contracts, SLAs, and roadmaps with stakeholders.
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Job Description:

Investment Engineering is part of the Investments Team within Dimensional. Investment Engineering is responsible for ownership of investment data, which means managing data from acquisition through distribution, driving analysis to create information from data, and creating the information and analysis consumed by internal and external clients and reports. Investment Engineering is a hub group touching numerous areas of the implementation of the investment process and interacting with most other departments within Dimensional. The Analytics Platforms team creates tools for clients to understand Dimensional’s products and analyze how they might fit inside a client’s portfolio.

The foundation of all Analytics Platforms products is the Data Platform and serves as the data and computational engine of this ecosystem. This team is responsible for architecting and operating the centralized data platform that powers downstream analytics applications, feeds client-facing digital products, and enables self-service, ad hoc exploration for investment professionals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, build, and evolution of a highly scalable, secure, and resilient data platform architecture that unifies multi-source investment data for batch and real-time processing.

  • Architect data infrastructure optimized to simultaneously serve high-concurrency client-facing digital tools and low-latency internal analytics applications.

  • Implement robust data patterns, discovery tools, and optimized compute layers to allow investment professionals and business units to run complex ad hoc queries efficiently without platform degradation.

  • Manage, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing investment engineers, maintaining a hands-on presence by participating in system design, writing core framework code, and conducting critical code reviews.

  • Establish comprehensive data quality frameworks, lineage tracking, and security controls to guarantee trust and compliance across all data products.

  • Collaborate with downstream application teams, product managers, and technology executives to define data contracts, SLAs, and infrastructure roadmaps that support company-wide data monetization and analysis.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or similar technical discipline. Relevant experience considered in lieu of specific degree.

  • 10+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, with a proven track record of architecting enterprise data platforms

  • Deep expertise in production Python, advanced SQL tuning, orchestrators (e.g. Airflow), comprehensive testing, and data transformation frameworks (e.g. dbt).

  • Strong experience designing robust APIs and streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka) to seamlessly serve data to external-facing web applications.

  • Master-level understanding of data warehousing concepts, semantic layer design, and diverse modeling methodologies tailored for financial markets or portfolio analytics.

  • 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, with a demonstrated ability to recruit top talent, interface with centralized Technology teams, and balance technical debt with feature delivery.

  • Familiarity with institutional investment datasets (e.g., security master, corporate actions, fundamental data, returns, or market data feeds from vendors like Bloomberg, FactSet, or MSCI).

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

    

Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants.  The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates. 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, or similar (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, including architecting enterprise data platforms
  • Production Python expertise
  • Advanced SQL tuning experience
  • Experience with orchestrators (e.g., Airflow) and comprehensive testing practices
  • Experience with data transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt)
  • Strong experience designing robust APIs and streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka)
  • Master-level understanding of data warehousing, semantic layer design, and modeling for financial markets/portfolio analytics
  • 3+ years of direct engineering management experience, including recruiting and balancing technical debt with delivery
  • Familiarity with institutional investment datasets (security master, corporate actions, fundamentals, returns, vendor feeds like Bloomberg/FactSet/MSCI)

Dimensional Fund Advisors Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Dimensional Fund Advisors and has not been reviewed or approved by Dimensional Fund Advisors.

  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Work–life balance is portrayed as notably strong and is often framed as part of the total package. Feedback suggests lifestyle and culture help offset only average cash levels for many roles.
  • Healthcare Strength Health coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental‑health support, and HSA/FSA options. An on‑site clinic in Austin and wellness programs are cited as meaningful adds to the overall offering.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth PTO and holidays are characterized as generous, with parental leave and adoption assistance highlighted as part of the package. Feedback suggests time‑off policies are a consistent bright spot across locations where available.

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The Company
HQ: Austin, TX
1,490 Employees
Year Founded: 1981

What We Do

Dimensional is a leading global investment firm that has been translating academic research into practical investment solutions since 1981. Guided by a strong belief in markets, we help investors pursue higher expected returns through a systematic investment process that integrates research insights with advanced portfolio design, management, and trading while balancing tradeoffs that can impact returns. Dimensional is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has 14 global offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. As of March 31, 2022, Dimensional manages $659 billion for investors worldwide.

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