Associate, Investment Engineering; Investment Data Management

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Dimensional's Investment Engineering department 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 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 Investment Data Management team's primary responsibilities involve overseeing the incoming base-level data and the centralized management and distribution of investment data to Dimensional's internal Portfolio Management, Trading, and Reporting systems.

The Investment Data Management team seeks an Associate capable of supporting key initiatives underpinning our daily implementation process. This role will work within the Fixed Income Data team to analyze the quality of Fixed Income investment data within Dimensional, including security reference, prices, ratings, and all other data crucial to the investment process. They will be a subject matter expert in the team's existing data products and work to design new products.

Success in this role will mean delivering clean, accurate data to internal as well as external clients in a timely manner, being creative at finding different ways to analyze and present relevant investment data and enhancing operational efficiencies at Dimensional to deliver value-added investment solutions to our clients.

• Support Dimensional's Fixed Income investment processes by ensuring tools and systems are built with appropriate business logic.
• Compile, cleanse, and manage large data sets from multiple sources to support investment systems.
• Research and evaluate vendor data to assess quality and recommend optimal consumption patterns.
• Conduct data analysis using SQL Server, Snowflake, and other structured/unstructured database technologies.
• Partner with Portfolio Management to address portfolio construction questions and perform related analysis.
• Collaborate with internal clients to gather and define requirements for core business systems, and then design, build, and test data pipelines in partnership with data engineer resources.
• Assist in shaping data architecture for internal distribution of investment data, including defining and building data structures for end-user consumption.
• Drive efficiency through automation, process design, and implementation.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior analysts, fostering skill development and knowledge-sharing across the…