Project Manager Dbt Analytics Jobs in Boston, MA

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THE ROLE
In conjunction with the Enterprise Data Management Office, the DBT Investment Lead 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.
Are you a hands-on and detailed-oriented individual working on the cutting edge of financial instruments, investment data, and analytics? Are you interested in investment data strategies across a wide variety of traditional and alternative asset classes? Are you a thinker who enjoys devising innovative and flexible business solutions to meet emerging business needs?
The MFS Enterprise Data Management Office is actively searching for a DBT Investment Lead Data Engineer to implement data engineering and analytics solutions. Primary responsibilities include full implementation and maintenance of data ingestion, data maintenance, data validation and data delivery of investment data. We are looking for someone who thrives in an agile, collaborative, team-based environment, working closely with technology peers across MFS, investment professionals and key vendor partners. This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of investment data at MFS.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
• Develop and maintain data models in dbt (Data Build Tool) within Snowflake, implementing business logic and ensuring alignment with existing architecture and data standards.
• Manage and contribute to dbt projects, ensuring code quality, proper documentation, and alignment with modular, scalable design patterns.
• Design, build, and administer scalable data pipelines and a robust data warehouse to support reporting, analytics, and operational use cases.
• Lead and participate in all development activities, develop and implement solutions to meet business requirements that align with program strategic objectives
• 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
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related disciplines.
• 5-6+ 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 in developing and maintaining data models in dbt (Data Build Tool)
• 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.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience working within the asset management industry and investment data domain, with exposure to multi-asset investment platforms and related data ecosystems.
• Understanding of asset management concepts and knowledge of various financial instruments and products, including traditional and alternative asset classes.
• Industry certifications in Snowflake, dbt, cloud data engineering platforms, data warehousing technologies, or financial markets/investment operations are highly valued.
• Demonstrated interest in emerging AI technologies and an understanding of how AI-driven tools can improve day-to-day engineering processes, data quality, operational efficiency, and analytics workflows.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI-assisted development, automation, or data engineering best practices to enhance productivity and continuous improvement initiatives is a plus.
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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Base Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $158,500.00This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.
At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• 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 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

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them
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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.
MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.
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