Job Summary:
AllianceBernstein is a leading global investment management firm offering high-quality research and diversified investment services. The Senior Business Analyst will focus on data architecture, managing the onboarding of new research datasets, collaborating with market data teams, and continuously improving data management processes.
Responsibilities:
• Manage the onboarding of new research datasets
• Collaborate with our market data team to secure new data trial and license agreements
• Write data pipeline specifications, map external data to our internal data model, develop test cases, review test results, and oversee related development projects
• Write data quality rule specifications, configure related metadata, and collaborate with the Research Data Oversight team
• Author data writeups in our data catalog and configure related metadata
• Manage permissions around licensed data sets
• Continuously improve our data management and oversight process, collaborating with our operations team to document data-related incidents, implement smarter controls and mitigate the impact of data provider outages
Qualifications:
Required:
• Degree in Finance/ Economics, Operations Management, or Computer Science/Engineering
• 5+ years’ experience as a business data analyst involved in enterprise data integration in the finance industry
• Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Refinitive QADirect, MSCI, BarraOne, et. al.
• 2+ years’ experience writing SQL queries to support data analysis
• Strong project management, analytical and quantitative skills
• Data modeling and mapping skills, ability to identify business data types and entity relationships
• Knowledge of financial instruments, market and fundamental research data
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering analysis, functional design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks
• Must demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts and business partners
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support
• Demonstrable curiosity in quantitative research and investment
• Python
Preferred:
• Master’s degree preferred
Company:
AllianceBernstein is a publicly traded global asset management firm, with approximately $735 billion in assets under management at March Founded in 1967, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.