Data Engineer, Business Solutions

Founded in 1999, Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. With approximately $42 billion of assets under management and more than 475 employees, Audax is a leading capital partner for middle market companies, operating through three business lines: Audax Private Equity, Audax Private Debt, and Audax Strategic Capital. 

For more information, visit the Audax Group website www.audaxgroup.com. or follow us on LinkedIn.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Audax is looking for a dynamic, motivated Data Engineer to join the business solutions team in our NYC office. This position will have responsibility for technical design, implementation, support and maintenance of the firm's strategic data warehouse. This position will also play a key role in selection, design, and implementation of data ingestions, integration and transformation technologies.

The candidate will have the opportunity to utilize a wide range of internal and external data sources to drive insights and growth at Audax across the Private Debt strategy.  The candidate will have access to the top middle market investment professionals and help to devise a scalable data infrastructure and strategy to meet the needs of our investment strategy and growth plans.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Designing, implementing, maintaining and scaling the Audax data ecosystem

• Working with business solutions and private debt professionals to address the firm’s business priorities in an innovative and scalable way.
• Help design, implement, and grow private debt’s Snowflake data infrastructure and capabilities.
• Assist in data architecture for AI enablement.
• Review data work done internally and externally and provide meaningful feedback and insights.
• Implement best practices in data transformation and storage.
• Tackling new data sources and devising the best way to distill and store data.
• Solving problems and troubleshooting data issues as they arise

Technology Competencies

• Knowledge of/Experience designing, building, and maintaining a scalable data architecture.
• Excellent understanding and proven experience in the areas of data transformation and storage.
• Experience designing and implementing optimal data schema
• Understanding of different data use cases and the most effective way to address them
• Experience working with cloud-based data storage technologies (Snowflake)
• Knowledge of/Experience with implementing best practices in data governance

REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS/BA and/or MS in Data engineering, Computer science or related field
• 2-4 years professional experience in a data engineering role
• Deep knowledge of data transformation and integration
• Deep knowledge of database storage technologies
• Experience taking large data sets, and cleaning/distilling these data sets
• Ability to think critically and recognize opportunities for optimization
• Curiosity to learn and explore new solutions and technologies in the data space
• Experience with SQL, cloud database technologies required
• Experience with python required
• Experience with Alteryx and its advanced capabilities a plus
• Experience with Streamlit a plus
• Experience with capturing and storing data streams required; experience with demographic and financial data streams, a major plus
• Strong written and oral communication skills required
• Ability to interact in an efficient and meaningful way with all levels of the organization required

OTHER DUTIES:  

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

LOCATION: New York, NY. 4 days/week in office.  These in-office requirements may change based on the needs of the business. 

For New York City only: The base salary range for this position is $108,000- $130,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation may vary and will be determined based on but not limited to, the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and Audax reserves the right to modify