Engineering Manager, Analytics Platform

Job Description

About Dimensional: Dimensional was built around a set of

ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep

connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go

where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and

small, that can benefit our clients. The Technology Department at

Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer

platforms powering the innovative, research-driven financial and technical

products to improve our client’s financial lives. Dimensional's Data

Distribution team is a strategic partnership between the Technology and

Investment Engineering (IE) departments. Our mission is to provide performance

services to drive interactive data analysis tools. We are looking for an

experienced engineering leader to manage a pivotal group of engineers within the

firm. You will lead a group of data and backend engineers building a modern

analytics platform for our clients. This platform will provide critical

analytical and account launching/management tools to help our clients manage

their businesses. You may be a fit for this role if you: Are open-minded,

curious, and resourceful. Lead with vision and purpose to bring about

transformational change. Are passionate about/stay current with modern

technologies and solutions. Solve problems systematically and transparently.

Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design, and solve collaboratively.

Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets.

Key Responsibilities

• Team
• Leadership: Lead, mentor and motivate a team of backend engineers, setting
• performance goals, fostering a collaborative environment while overseeing
• functions focused on data engineering and data-intensive calculation services.
• Business Partnership: Act as a key liaison between engineering and business
• stakeholders to translate high-level goals into actionable technical
• requirements. End-to-End Execution: Own the full software development lifecycle,
• ensuring consistent planning, execution, and high-quality delivery of complex,
• integrated engineering projects. Own project deliverables. Identify
• risks/challenges/dependencies which may cause delays and work collaboratively to
• design mitigation plans and implement. Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain
• long-term technical roadmaps aligned with product goals. Operational
• Excellence: Identify resource gaps, process bottlenecks, and technical debt to
• proactively optimize team velocity and quality of output. Strategic
• Tradeoffs: Negotiate priorities and navigate competing demands by providing
• data-driven insights on technical feasibility and business impact.
• Communication: Serve as a key communicator across technical and non-technical
• audiences, ensuring clarity on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines to ensure
• alignment across the organization. Resource Management: Allocate work
• effectively to balance time-to-market with system coverage and stability.
• Technical Excellence: Collaborate and contribute to architecture design,
• incorporating best practices to ensure data-driven, scalable and maintainable
• code. Documentation: Document and present technical artifacts to
• cross-functional teams of stakeholders to maintain transparency and knowledge
• transfer.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of applicable experience in software
• engineering 6+ years of experience managing people Knowledge of the python
• landscape Well-versed in pythonic/idiomatic solution design Strong understanding
• of software architecture, programming, and development methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a fast-paced environment Experience in
• high performance and high availability applications including expertise in
• performance optimization and tuning Experience with automated acceptance testing
• Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design
• highly secure applications Experience working in a dynamic and interactive team
• environment to build world-class software implementations Knowledge of best
• practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experienced in presenting to senior leadership on a recurring basis Experience
• working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and
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