Lead Software Engineer - Investments Technology

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Job Description:

About Dimensional: 

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients. 

The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research driven solutions to improve our client’s financial lives.   

Job Purpose:

The Lead Software Engineer delivers new technology capabilities for the Portfolio Management teams within Investments. This role is responsible for serving as a technical leader and collaborating with cross-functional teams to architect solutions that support our investment software systems and strategies.  This role will evaluate existing architectures, platforms and technology and lay out a future state platform and guide the execution of building that system. The Lead Software Engineer mentor's other engineers on the team, influences technical strategy, and ensures the reliability, security, and performance of our systems.  This role has critical relationship management responsibilities working with business clients, external parties, and other technology groups (Developers, Network Administrators, Senior Management, Executives, etc.). 

What you might work on:

• Serves as a technology leader and influences technology strategy. 

• Collaborates and partners with peer Investments lead engineers and Investment Architecture through the design and implementation of complex, scalable software solutions ensuring alignment with business goals and technical excellence. 

• Defines platform architecture, sub-system designs, and system integration strategy. 

• Accountable for providing the engineering guidance, technology architecture, and will guide the solution architecture for the Portfolio Management team.  

• Designs and develops