Director of Advanced Analytics Engineering

Asset Management Technology is a dynamic service focused organization dedicated to ensuring business focused outcomes for our Investments front office partners in Columbia Threadneedle Investments. We are looking for a dynamic Engineering leader who will operate in a fast-paced environment to provide differentiating technology and complex analytical solutions supporting trading, portfolio management, research, and ESG functions within the Columbia Threadneedle Investments department.

Provide strategic and operational leadership in the design and development of the company’s quantitative technology platform for asset management. Work closely with the business to effectively translate business strategy and objectives into technological capability, with a focus on computational capabilities, effective data access patterns, portfolio analysis and results visualization tooling, portfolio management and quantitative research productivity, reproducible workflows, and robust processes to deploy and reliably support the models and applications. Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to assure technological compatibility and compliance with the architectural road map and best-practices.  Drive strategy and manage on- and off-shore resources, both internal and vendor provided, to ensure best in class solutions that are scalable, extensible, cost effective and market leading.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, modifies, adapts and implements short- and long-term solutions to information technology needs through new and existing applications, systems, databases and applications infrastructure.

• Will provide a fresh perspective to build engineering driven, value focused high performing teams.

• Passionate about technology while using their problem-solving capabilities to deliver solutions utilizing a top end engineering approach.

• Exceptional technology skills; recognized by industry peers as an expert in your domain.

• Believes in strong modern software engineering techniques: lead agile development, continuous integration, code review or pairing, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches.

• Leads with commercial mindset to solve complex problems; researches and brings in new and machine learning/GenAI concepts; takes a new perspective while using existing solutions.

• Participates in discovery sessions to identify opportunities to leverage analytics to automate and enhance business processes.

• Strong analytical ability, true problem solver.

• High achiever who believes in core values: humility, collaboration, continuous learning, ownership, accountability, etc.

• Accountable for all parts of the software development lifecycle for their projects.

• Able to work directly with business stakeholders.

• Make decisions that show a focus on current and future business priorities, together with fiscal responsibility.

• Articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent (4-years) in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related field; or equivalent work experience.

• 7-10 years of relevant experience.

• 7-10+ years of experience in technology and/or software development, progressing in complexity and responsibility.

• 3-5+ years of leadership experience, including demonstrated success delivering business and technical roadmaps by leading technical teams and executing with outsourced/vendor partner environment (both on and off-shore).

• 3-5+ years in Agile methodologies.

• Delivering cloud native (AWS) innovative solutions with a commercial mindset.

  Full stack development skills – Java, Python, Angular, React, etc.

• Technical experience with DevSecOps, CICD pipelines, Unit testing, and performance testing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience participating in the financial planning process (departmental and/or project). 

• Highly effective communication skills that includes the ability to deliver technical information to non-technical audiences. 

• Experience in delivering technical solutions through both vendor (on- and off-shore) and employee resources. 

• Proven success in the design/delivery of complex, best-in-class enterprise-level software applications.

• Championing organizational change, e.g., leading initiatives, products, services, or interactions.

• Being a good advocate for technology with the business bridging the gap.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to present complex information in an understandable way to all levels of the organization.

• You can quickly build rapport, credibility, trust, and respect throughout the organization at all levels.

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration as of 2022. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries, advise and manage assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

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