The posting
About Us
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
About the Role
Title: Lead software engineer
Team: Enterprise Data Services
Location: NEEDHAm/BOSTON
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The company
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 55 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
the position
The Portfolio Data Technology team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join a team responsible for the firm’s proprietary investment performance measurement, attribution, and GIPS composite applications. The engineer will be a key contributor to the development of new multi-asset performance attribution platform as well as enhancing and maintaining existing applications to keep pace with the evolution and growing complexity of the firm’s investment products. Keys to this position are a strong record of accomplishment of delivering scalable and flexible software solutions, analytical and data analysis skills, solid hands-on technical skills with a willingness and ability to learn new technologies and concepts, excellent communication skills, and an ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across blended business and technology teams. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer to join a collaborative team in a challenging role with excellent leadership and advancement opportunities.
responsibilities
- Lead a team of developers and QA engineers to deliver quality products in Enterprise Data Services
- Strong proven technology leader that can lead projects independently
- 50% of this role will be development and the other 50% will be focused on Architecture and leadership
- The team size is around 7-10 developers with no people management responsibilities at this time
- Participate in architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and support efforts
- Work with business team members, project managers/analysts, other software engineers to review business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans
- Design, prototype and author code for software components and applications based on functional specification and optimize them for performance
- Ensure the adherence to established code-quality standards within the development and QA teams, such as Continuous Integration, Code Reviews, and all required release documentation
- Establish and maintain effective client relationships and help guide the team in setting priorities for completion of requests or resolution of issues
- Work across teams such as middleware, database, and architecture teams to coordinate and facilitate production releases
- Author architecture, technical design, and support documentation
Qualifications
- 10+ years of software development and design experience
- 7+ years demonstrated experience developing enterprise applications and services using Java and related technologies
- Experience with SQL is needed
- Hands on experience in multi-threaded programming
- Experience in relational and non-relational database technologies
- Motivated, agile and able to work independently in a fast-paced team oriented environment
- Experience working in an agile devops environment.
- Committed to delivering projects on time and overcome obstacles
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with working in AWS environment is highly desired
- Financial industry experience is preferred but not required
JOB TITLE
Lead Software Engineer
JOB FAMILY
Software Engineering
LOCATION
Needham
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That’s ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.
As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management considers all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 90,000 - 180,000
This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time).
We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.
