ISS MI
Market Intelligence (MI) provides critical data and insight to global asset managers, insurance companies and distributors to help them make informed, strategic decisions to manage and grow their business. Through its combination of proprietary and integrated datasets, in-depth global research and trusted executive engagement, ISS MI delivers solutions for market sizing, competitor benchmarking, product strategy and opportunity identification across a wide range of financial products including funds, annuities, insurance, mortgages, and other instruments. The ISS MI solutions include the industry-leading data platforms Simfund, BrightScope, Local Market Share, and Financial Clarity, as well a full collection of global research and analytics services including Investor Economics, Market Metrics, and Plan for Life.
To learn more, visit https://www.issgovernance.com/market-intelligence .
Job Overview
This position is part of a new development group to be responsible for helping different business teams automate their data pipelines. As part of this group, we are looking to hire a python and cloud services engineer. You will work primarily in python and will be exposed to a number of new cloud-based technologies for containerization and horizontal scaling.
Responsibilities
- Create data pipeline, data extraction, preprocessing, transformation, and aggregation jobs for a variety of products and services across our Market Intelligence division.
- Closely collaborate with data engineers, software development and product teams to ensure accuracy and reliability of tools and data
- Evaluate model specifications, data processes and business logics for accuracy, completeness, thoroughness and potential dislocations
- Software deployment and release management
- Promote an environment that fosters commitment to rigor in data research and analysis operational excellence, collaboration and knowledge sharing
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 4+ years overall experience working in software development
- 2+ years of hands-on Python development experience
- 1-2 years of experience working with some implementation of SQL
- 2-5 years working with containerization and container orchestration patterns
- Experience with git source control
- Experience developing or working with REST APIs.
- Experience with cloud hosting services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with global business and technical teams
- Experience leading or managing other engineers
Good To Have
- Experience with AWS Services: Fargate, Lambda, Athena, Glue
- Familiarity with Spark or similar Hadoop technologies
- Familiarity with capital markets and mutual industry / data