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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $120 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide—including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture—all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

Building on a multi-decade history in quantitative equity, Acadian has expanded its reach into multi asset class, alternative equity, and systematic credit.  The investment data engineering function will build a platform that will expand our data capabilities to operate at significant scale across a broad array of asset classes.  We’re looking for a senior contributor to help design, build and support a data platform that will drive our investment process. Acadian supports a hybrid work environment, employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and build a highly scalable data platform utilizing a variety of data store and high-performance compute technologies on AWS.
• Build robust and efficient pipelines to swiftly incorporate new content and derived measures into the data platform.
• Work with the enterprise data management and technology teams to migrate our data environment to the cloud, extend our data quality practices and establish support practices for the investment data platform.
• Participate in the design review of advancements in Acadian’s investment decision systems to promote adoption and ensure smooth integration of the data platform.
• Develop familiarity and expertise in investment data content and its importance to Acadian’s investment strategies.
• Maintain all aspects of the daily investment process systems including production jobs.
• Engineer solutions that are well-tested, high quality and extensible.

 We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree with an outstanding academic record in a technical field such as mathematics, science, or engineering; CFA charter is a plus
• Outstanding analytic skills and the ability to clearly articulate approach and results in verbal, graphical and written form
• Superior software, data modeling, profiling and programming skills to move quickly from concept to solution with solid understanding of software system development life cycles
• Hands on development experience with Python (Pandas, NumPy) for modeling/analytical work and SQL for data access and architecture
• Understands the best fit for column, key-value, document, relational, time-series and file stores
• Working experience with AWS Cloud services (e.g. S3, EC2, ECS) with Terraform
• Familiarity with data platforms such as Spark, MongoDB, Parquet, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB and Redis and orchestration tools (e.g., Dagster, Airflow)
• Creativity, enthusiasm, collegiality, and the ability to excel in a self-starting environment
• Drive and humility to deliver on high-value projects and roll-up-your sleeves attitude