Lead Investment Data Engineer

About the position

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters - to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures. In conjunction with the Investment Data Management Office, the Lead Data Engineer contributes to a long-term strategic initiative to unify and harmonize our investment data. This initiative enables enhanced investment decision making, risk management and client reporting for our multi-asset platform by delivering consistent, timely, accurate and user-friendly data to investors, risk teams and clients. This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of investment data at MFS.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement data pipelines to maintain unified data platform for the Investment Data Management Office (IDMO)
• Lead and participate in all development activities, develop and implement solutions to meet business requirements that align with program strategic objectives
• Responsible for new and on-going development of data pipelines sourcing from internal and external sources
• Drive continuous improvement of data quality, resiliency, control, efficiency, and monitoring
• Troubleshooting complex system interactions to find the root cause to problems
• Partner with platform lead to design, develop, implement and deploy new software components to investment data platform
• Partner with data architect to evaluate and finalize the unified data model
• Partner with integration architect to upgrade and integrate data ingestion and data delivery tools with the unified data platform
• Upgrade and integrate transformation tool, data validation tool and orchestration tools with the unified data platform to implement data engineering, analytical engineering and data maintenance capabilities
• Provide support during unexpected outages

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines
• 5-6+ years of experience in design, development and building data oriented complex applications
• Minimum of 2-4 years of hands-on progressive experience from SQL to Advanced SQL
• Experience working in data integration (ETL/ELT), data warehouse, data analytics architecture and sound understanding of design principles
• Knowledge of and experience with Snowflake and other cloud native databases is highly preferred
• Development Experience in Cloud based PAAS platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google GCP or Amazon AWS
• Deep understanding of Agile SDLC, DevOps and Cloud technologies required
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Knowledge about various architectures, patterns such as unified data management architecture (UDM), data mesh architecture, event-driven architecture, real-time data flows, non-relational repositories, data virtualization, etc.
• Experience with building solutions in the financial services domain with an understanding of financial instruments, transactions, and positions is desired
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead cross-team collaboration and partnerships across a variety of internal and external constituencies

Benefits

• Generous time-off provided: including 'Responsible time off' for many roles, paid company holidays when the US Stock Exchange is closed, plus paid volunteer time
• Family Focus: Up to 20 weeks of paid leave for new parents, back-up care program, dependent care flexible spending account, adoption assistance, generous caregiver leave
• Health and Welfare: Competitive medical, vision and dental plans, plus tax-free health savings accounts with company contributions
• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program, gym reimbursement through our medical plans, fitness center discounts and more
• Life & Disability Benefits: Company-paid basic life insurance and short-term disability
• Financial Benefits: 401(k) savings plan, Defined Contribution plan- 15% of base salary invested into the Plan, competitive total compensation programs