Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London, and Sydney. As of June 30, 2024, the firm managed approximately US$112 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.

Position Overview: 

As a member of Acadian’s Information Technology Department, the Senior Engineer I will work directly with an IT Delivery Team supporting ongoing cash flow related projects within the firm’s various Client Service, Operations, and Portfolio Construction Teams. The ideal candidate should have experience with full-stack software development, financial systems, and prior experience working in an asset management firm with hands-on experience in portfolio accounting data.  The successful candidate is a motivated self-starter with an aptitude for learning new skills and environments quickly while multi-tasking on multiple deliverables.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment, with employees on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do: 

• Work with an agile delivery team to enhance and support cash flow software applications and workflow automations.
• Build new cloud-based solutions to support data quality, workflow automation, and simplify/centralize data for reporting and ad-hoc analytics.
• Work directly with our business partners to design, implement, test, and deploy solutions.
• Support the daily operations of our business partners and help to research and triage reported issues.
• Analyze and document business systems and proactively identify problems and opportunities for improvement.
• Perform programmatic data analysis, define data governance and quality checks, and define process controls.
• Design, develop, and maintain performance and attribution systems to meet the firm’s evolving needs.
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness by implementing robust data management practices.
• Document system architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures to facilitate knowledge sharing and future maintenance.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience as a software engineer.
• Prior experience working in financial services, with a focus on investment accounting, performance and attribution, and security reference data.
• Experience working in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum, Kanban).
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Technology Stack (.NET Core, C#, SQL Server).
• Experience designing relational databases and/or reporting data warehouses.
• Experience building APIs and services for data access and integration purposes.
• Prior experience working with Amazon Web Services is preferred.
• Prior experience with the Snowflake Data Platform is a plus.
• Familiarity with Containers, Service Discovery, Secrets Management, Microservice Architecture, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Additional application/toolset experience: Jira, GitLab, Consul, Vault, Docker, Terraform, Sonarqube, NewRelic.
• Ability to work and learn independently with limited oversight.