Principal Data Engineer

| Boston, MA, USA | Hybrid
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Geode Capital Management is actively searching for a full-time Principal Data Engineer to become an integral part of our Data team. The Principal Data Engineer will play a very critical role within our data team by providing technical leadership, implementation expertise, design best practices and guiding other highly skilled and motivated data engineers. In this capacity, you will work closely with the analytics team, architecture, and data analysts to gather requirements and contribute to the development of a best-in-class analytics platform centered around Snowflake and Tableau.
This is a hybrid work environment with a weekly in-office schedule of Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays with remote work availability on Mondays and Fridays.

Responsibilities:

  • Build best in class analytics platform for our business teams to gain insights from our data
  • Collaborate with Product owners, Analytics Lead, Scrum Master, and Development teams to build effective data integration pipelines and Rest APIs on hosted data
  • Mentor new or junior team members and participate in code reviews
  • Collaborate in design, development, and implementation of software and data solutions
  • Collaborate with development team in building innovative, event driven, API-first cloud native solutions using AWS platform, Snowflake, Snaplogic, Tableau, Python and Rest APIs
  • iteratively deliver high quality products to enable our investment business, operations, analytics, and Client reporting

Skills You Bring:

  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a similar field
  • 5+ years of software and or data engineering experience
  • Strong implementation experience with snowflake ecosystem, knowledge of Snowflake architecture and concepts
  • Strong background in modeling and building data warehouses
  • Strong working experience in Snowflake using warehouses, stored procedures, streams, snow pipes, tasks, stages, storage integration, ingestion frameworks and tools etc.
  • Ability to develop ELT/ETL pipelines to move data to and from Snowflake data store using combination of Python, dbt and SnowSQL
  • Strong experience in ETL/ELT technologies such as informatica, Snaplogic etc.
  • Hands on experience building cloud native applications using AWS or Azure
  • Good hands-on experience with scheduling tools such as Airflow, Control M, Autosys
  • Excellent SQL skills, writing SQL stored procedures and functions
  • Experience in leading teams, propose design, establish best practices and engineering discipline
  • Experience building reports, dashboards, and visualizations with business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power BI is preferred
  • Experience with build/deploy automation & DevOps frameworks
  • Familiarity in building and consuming APIs (REST, API Gateway, etc.)
  • Possessing outstanding technical and analytical skills with strong business knowledge in the financial services domain
  • Good project management, experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM), communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong hands-on experience with requirements gathering analysis, coding, testing, implementation, maintenance, and review.

Company Overview:
Founded in 2001, Geode is headquartered in Boston’s financial district, the center of one of the world’s most vibrant finance and technology hubs and employs approximately 170 employees.
Geode is a systematic asset manager providing core beta exposures across a range of equity and niche asset classes, with over $1 trillion in AUM as of December 31, 2023. With a robust infrastructure and experienced investment professionals, Geode offers the scale of a large asset management firm with the benefits of a smaller organization.
Geode is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and support a diversified work environment. Learn more about Geode at www.geodecapital.com/careers. 

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An Insider's view of Geode Capital Management

What are some social events your company does?

Geode engages and brings our teams together by hosting various events throughout the year such as Lunch and Learns, community service events, fundraisers, trivia nights, charitable runs and after work socials. We even had a virtual illusionist for our last holiday party. A healthy balance of work and fun is an important part of our culture.

Julie

Head of Human Resources

What does your typical day look like?

As a Systems Engineer on the Systems Operations Team, I work with every Geode team to provide the technology systems for a productive working environment as well as support for those systems. In other cases, my team will develop solutions to any challenges that arise. Technology isn’t perfect, and we do our best to keep everything running smoothly!

Hans

Systems Engineer

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

Geode has provided me with great career progression over the 15+ years that I’ve been here. I have had many opportunities to work on a variety of projects for different departments within the company.

My managers have always given me opportunities to work on projects that interest me and to develop my skills, in tech, finance, and as a leader.

Charlie

Director of Frontend Engineering

How do you empower your team to be more creative?

I cultivate an open, friendly and inclusive environment. I encourage “out of the box” thinking and lead by example. It’s important that our people feel confident putting their ideas forward without fear of humiliation. We have an incredible team with incredible ideas. I empower everyone to have their voice heard. 

David

President & CEO

What is your vision for the company?

Geode has soared in the last 20 years into an investment manager with assets nearly at $1T! We are revolutionizing our tech stack that will help us further dial in our investment process for greater efficiency, transparency, security, and scale. I think of this as a once in a lifetime opportunity!

Doug

Head of Cloud and Data Engineering

What are Geode Capital Management Perks + Benefits

Geode Capital Management Benefits Overview

Geode Capital Management provides a generous and comprehensive benefit package. In addition to our Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans, we offer:

- 401K Matching and Annual Profit Sharing Contributions
- $2,500 annual charitable match
- Health Savings Accounts
- Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Tuition Reimbursement / CFA and Certificate Reimbursements
- Student Debt Employer Contributions
- Health & Fitness Reimbursement
- Employee Referral Bonus Program
- Generous Time off package that includes PTO and Volunteer Time Off
- Paid Family and Parental Leaves
- Adoption and Surrogacy Assistance
- Supplemental Benefits including Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD and LTD
- Commuter Benefits including 50% share of transit expense
- Employee discount programs
- Volunteer opportunities and employee events
- Flexible working arrangements

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Diversity
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Vacation + Time Off
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Fitness stipend
Meditation space
Mother's room
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available
Paid industry certifications

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