Senior Data Engineer - Parametric

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT TEAM
The Data Management Office ensures that data pipelines are scalable, repeatable, secure, and can serve multiple users. We help facilitate getting data from a variety of different sources, getting it in the right formats, assuring that it adhere to data quality standards, and assuring that downstream users can get that data quickly.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Senior Data Engineer is responsible for the design, structure, and maintenance of data. A data engineer ensures the accuracy and accessibility of data relevant to an organization or a project. In this role the Senior Data Engineer needs to be able to take business requirements and design and architecture end to end that fully supports the business needs. The Senior Data engineer needs to be an expert in writing and optimizing SQL queries. They need to be able to document ideas and proposals which will include creating ER diagrams and architectural documents that document the transformation of data throughout its lifecycle.

A successful Senior Data Engineer must possess superior analytical skills and be detail-oriented. This role requires the ability to communicate effectively as part of a larger team within the information technology department. Additionally, you will need to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical staff. Since development of data models and logical workflows is common, a Senior Data Engineer must also exhibit advanced visualization skills, as well as creative problem-solving.

Primary Responsibilities

• Works with team members to design and implement data solutions in alignment with the project schedule.
• Codes, tests, and documents new or modified data systems to create robust and scalable data platform for our applications.
• Works with developers to make sure that all data solutions are consistent.
• Expands and grows data platform capabilities to solve new data problems and challenges.
• Creates data flow diagrams for all of business systems.
• Implements security and recovery tools and techniques as required.
• Help to create and maintain a data catalog for each project.
• Interprets data results to business customers.
• Design of the logical model and implements the physical database to support business needs.
• Conducts logical and physical database design.
• Designs key and indexing schemes and designs partitioning.
• Develops, tests, implements, and maintains database management applications.
• Constructs and implements operational data stores and data marts.
• Ensures database changes are reviewed and approved according to database design standards and principles.
• Resolves conflicts between models, ensuring that data models are consistent with the ecosystem model (e.g., entity names, relationships and definitions).
• Models best practices in data management.
• Leads or participates in creating, refining, managing and enforcing data management policies, procedures, conventions and standards.
• Evaluates and provides feedback on future technologies and new releases/upgrades.
• Contributes to the establishment of business continuity & disaster recovery requirements, methods and procedures for data systems and databases.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering or equivalent work experience
•  6+ years of data engineering experience
• Minimum of 6 years of experience with SQL Server and related tools
• Experience with Snowflake
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with AWS or similar cloud technologies
• Experience with DBT
• Experience with Git
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with a Master Data Management tool such as S&P Markit, GoldenSource, or TAMR
• Experience in Financial Services is required
• Capability of architecting highly scalable distributed systems, using different open-source tools
• Demonstrated experience with agile or other rapid application development methods
• Expert knowledge of data modeling and understanding of different data structures and their benefits and limitations under particular use cases
• Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse team
• Effective communication skills with business user, stakeholders and other developers
• Ability to create strong work ethics and committed teams, foster open dialogue, and promote individual and team success

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 85 years. At our foundation are five core values — putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back — that guide our more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find trusted colleagues, committed mentors and a culture that values diverse perspectives, individual intellect and cross-collaboration. We Firm is differentiated by the caliber of our diverse team. While our company culture and commitment to inclusion define our legacy and shape our future, helping to strengthen our business and bring value to clients around the world. Learn more about how we put this commitment to action: morganstanley.com/diversity. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

Salary range for the position: $110,000 - $225,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).