Engineering Manager, Analytics Platform
dimensional · Remote - Austin Metro ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Category
- Management
- Experience
- 6+ years
Job Description:
About Dimensional:
Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.
The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer platforms powering the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives.
Dimensional's Data Distribution team is a strategic partnership between the Technology and Investment Engineering (IE) departments. Our mission is to provide performance services to drive interactive data analysis tools.
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to manage a pivotal group of engineers within the firm. You will lead a group of data and backend engineers building a modern analytics platform for our clients. This platform will provide critical analytical and account launching/management tools to help our clients manage their businesses.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful.
Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.
Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies and solutions.
Solve problems systematically and transparently.
Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design, and solve collaboratively.
Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Lead, mentor and motivate a team of backend engineers, setting performance goals, fostering a collaborative environment while overseeing functions focused on data engineering and data-intensive calculation services.
Business Partnership: Act as a key liaison between engineering and business stakeholders to translate high-level goals into actionable technical requirements.
End-to-End Execution: Own the full software development lifecycle, ensuring consistent planning, execution, and high-quality delivery of complex, integrated engineering projects. Own project deliverables. Identify risks/challenges/dependencies which may cause delays and work collaboratively to design mitigation plans and implement.
Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain long-term technical roadmaps aligned with product goals.
Operational Excellence: Identify resource gaps, process bottlenecks, and technical debt to proactively optimize team velocity and quality of output.
Strategic Tradeoffs: Negotiate priorities and navigate competing demands by providing data-driven insights on technical feasibility and business impact.
Communication: Serve as a key communicator across technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring clarity on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines to ensure alignment across the organization.
Resource Management: Allocate work effectively to balance time-to-market with system coverage and stability.
Technical Excellence: Collaborate and contribute to architecture design, incorporating best practices to ensure data-driven, scalable and maintainable code.
Documentation: Document and present technical artifacts to cross-functional teams of stakeholders to maintain transparency and knowledge transfer.
Qualifications
10+ years of applicable experience in software engineering
6+ years of experience managing people
Knowledge of the python landscape
Well-versed in pythonic/idiomatic solution design
Strong understanding of software architecture, programming, and development methodologies
Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a fast-paced environment
Experience in high performance and high availability applications including expertise in performance optimization and tuning
Experience with automated acceptance testing
Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design highly secure applications
Experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
Experienced in presenting to senior leadership on a recurring basis
Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus
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