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In conjunction with the Investment Data Management Office, the Senior Data Engineer contributes to a long‑term strategic initiative to unify and harmonize our investment data. This initiative enables enhanced investment decision making, risk management and client reporting for our multi‑asset platform by delivering consistent, timely, accurate and user‑friendly data to investors, risk teams and clients.

• Design, develop, and implement data pipelines to maintain a unified data platform for the Investment Data Management Office (IDMO).
• Create and maintain detailed technical design and architecture documentation to support development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of data engineering solutions.
• Develop and execute comprehensive unit tests, ensuring thorough test coverage and clear documentation of test cases and results.
• Lead and participate in all development activities, develop and implement solutions to meet business requirements that align with program strategic objectives.
• Responsible for new and on‑going development of data pipelines sourcing from internal and external sources.
• Drive continuous improvement of data quality, resiliency, control, efficiency, and monitoring.
• Troubleshooting complex system interactions to find the root cause to problems.
• Partner with platform lead to design, develop, implement and deploy new software components to investment data platform.
• Partner with data architect to evaluate and finalize the unified data model.
• Partner with integration architect to upgrade and integrate data ingestion and data delivery tools with the unified data platform.
• Upgrade and integrate transformation tool, data validation tool and orchestration tools with the unified data platform to implement data engineering, analytical engineering and data maintenance capabilities.
• Provide support during unexpected outages.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in design, development and building data‑oriented complex applications.
• Minimum of 2–4 years of hands‑on progressive experience from SQL to Advanced SQL.
• Experience working in data integration (ETL/ELT), data warehouse, data analytics architecture and sound understanding of design principles.
• Knowledge of and experience with Snowflake and other cloud‑native databases is highly preferred.
• Development experience in cloud‑based PaaS platforms like Microsoft Azure, Google GCP or Amazon AWS.
• Deep understanding of Agile SDLC, DevOps and Cloud technologies required, in addition to exposure to multiple, diverse technologies, platforms and processing environments.
• Knowledge about various architectures, patterns such as unified data management architecture (UDM), data mesh architecture, event‑driven architecture, real‑time data flows, non‑relational repositories, data virtualization, etc.
• Experience with building solutions in the financial services domain with an understanding of financial instruments, transactions, and positions is desired.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to lead cross‑team collaboration and partnerships across a variety of internal and external constituencies.

$98,500.00 – $141,500.00. This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company‑sponsored 401(k).
• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider.
• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually.
• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches.
• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20‑weeks for maternity, 12‑weeks for parental and caregiver leaves.
• Choice of medical and dental plans and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account.
• Tax‑deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care).
• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well‑being apps.

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