Principal Engineer - Research Systems page is loaded Principal Engineer - Research Systems Apply locations Boston time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R1280 Job Overview The Research Systems Principal Engineer will work on high-priority projects within Research Systems, embedding into the project team on a sustained basis, e.g. for our back-testing platform and for our forecasting system. The person will be a thought leader for projects, drive technical innovation and help the teams design and build high-quality solutions. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, both implementing features and capabilities, as well as mentoring and guiding other team members.

Responsibilities Provide strategic direction on architectural decisions and design. Anticipate upcoming challenges and proactively work on technical solutions to address

Implement features and capabilities with a focus on value for the business, accelerating the overall delivery of the project and provide working solutions for challenging and key areas of platform

Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks

Conduct code reviews, enforce coding guidelines, contribute actively during pair programming sessions aimed at enhancing overall quality of delivered artifacts

Lead and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness and high availability

Participate in building a data and HPC platform that can meet the scalability and processing needs of Research and Research Systems

Assist the team in investigating potential improvements achieved by adopting new data technologies and frameworks

Achieve high quality metrics through automated testing, robust operational tooling and reliable designs

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline; at least 10 years of prior experience, financial services exposure is a plus

Proven record of delivering solutions that are used in a production environment at scale and with high uptime requirements

Proven record of building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)

Solid experience dealing with large-scale deployments with high degrees of parallelism

Experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

Experience working with data lakes, data warehousing, and/or database systems, including data frameworks like Trino, Spark, Pandas/Polars, Iceberg, etc

Experience with distributed compute frameworks and orchestration tools like Dask, Slurm, AWS Batch, Airflow, Prefect, etc

Ability to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently

Proficient in at least one major programming language (e.g. Python, Java, Scala) and comfortable working with SQL

Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions

Experience leading projects or teams is a plus

Experience managing stakeholders and expectations

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