State Street Investment Management

Investment Management

SoftwareEngineeringLeadInvestmentAnalytics,VP

$110–189k Boston, Massachusetts, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Software Engineering Lead – Investment Analytics, VP at State Street Investment Management. Skills: Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, AWS, financial data analysis, performance measurement, attribution. Design, build, and optimize scalable applications and data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL on Databricks (AWS). Partner with business stakeholders to understand financial data, analytics requirements, and downstream usage across research, portfolio management, risk, and reporting”

What You'll Achieve.

deliver end‑to‑end solutions; improve productivity and code quality

Industry & Context.

Investment Management
Problems you'll solve

analytical and problem-solving skills; Own the investigation and resolution of complex production issues; root-cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years of experience delivering technology solutions, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, written and verbal communication skills, experience working with financial data in an asset management or capital markets environment, Returns and performance data, Holdings, transactions, and positions, Benchmarks and market/reference data, Performance and/or attribution concepts and calculations, Advanced development skills in Python, PySpark, and advanced SQL, Large-scale data processing and optimization, Experience building solutions on Databricks / Apache Spark in a cloud environment (AWS preferred), Solid understanding of data warehousing and analytical data platform concepts, analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently, Effective communicator able to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

experience with performance measurement and attribution, AWS preferred, Familiarity with BI and data visualization tools for enabling reporting and insight delivery, Experience leveraging AI‑assisted development tools to improve productivity and code quality

What You'll Do.

and optimize scalable applications and data pipelines using Python

and SQL on Databricks (AWS)

Partner with business stakeholders to understand financial data

analytics requirements

and downstream usage across research

Implement solutions that support financial analytics use cases

including (but not limited to) performance measurement

and benchmark comparisons

Participate in requirements analysis

and technical implementation following an Agile SDLC

maintainable data workflows with emphasis on data quality

and operational reliability

Optimize Spark and SQL workloads for scale and performance using appropriate partitioning

and Databricks best practices

Own the investigation and resolution of complex production issues

including root-cause analysis and long-term remediation

Collaborate with application

and infrastructure teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions

Contribute to technical standards

Remain current with emerging technologies and recommend improvements to tools

and development practices

Responsible for collaborating with global team on sprint milestones

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with business stakeholders; Collaborate with application, data architecture, and infrastructure teams; Contribute to design reviews; Collaborating with global team on sprint milestones

Communication Scope

Effective communicator able to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders; written and verbal communication skills

Process & Methodology

Agile SDLC

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