Investment Systems Engineer

About the role

The Technology Team at the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) implements, develops, and supports industry-leading systems and platforms for a diverse and complex portfolio of investment strategies. We serve as trusted advisors and strategic partners to the business, using technology to advance SWIB’s goals and contribute to its continued growth and success. Our team keeps technology aligned with SWIB’s future direction while operating a secure, reliable, and standards-driven technology environment.

The Senior Business Systems Engineer provides technical leadership for the business systems architecture supporting SWIB’s front- and middle-office investment functions across public and private markets. In this role, you will design and implement solutions, improve the processes used by business systems engineers and consultants, and help ensure that SWIB’s investment systems remain effective, scalable, and supportable. You will apply deep investment-industry expertise to analyze business needs, develop solution designs and prototypes, create testing strategies, and guide implementation. You will partner closely with Investment Management, Operations, Technology, vendors, and other stakeholders to translate complex business needs into practical technology solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work with Technology Owners, Business Owners, and Operations to research and implement new solutions and identify the support needs of those solutions.
• Analyze Investment Management, Operations, and Technology teams’ needs, both internal and external of SWIB, to ensure business needs are continuously being met through the design, development, or deployment of software (whether through upgrades or new programs).
• Serve as the architect/designer for the investment management applications and systems SWIB utilizes, and how those applications, systems, and component pieces interact, including creating test plans, scenarios, and procedures for new software implemented.
• Identify gaps and risks in SWIB’s systems architecture, design, and projects. Make recommendations to business and Technology management about the best way to address or minimize these gaps and risks.
• Lead, facilitate, and coordinate the software or solution architecture and design (including, where applicable, the code needed) of solutions (e.g., applications and systems).
• Implement software testing, using either manual or automated programs and exploratory testing, and evaluate results, including documenting and reporting defects or problems with software and oversee future maintenance and upgrades.
• Continue to mature and evolve knowledge of investment and asset management business practices, both from a textbook and a practical perspective.
• Understand general and investment industry-specific technology trends and forecast future technology shifts.
• Research new investment management technologies to help drive SWIB’s business capabilities forward and maintain a high degree of awareness of common industry-specific trends, products, vendors, and services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required with a preference focus within Information Systems, Computer Science or Finance.
• 5 plus years of investment management experience.
• In-depth knowledge of one or more ABOR/IBOR applications such as SimCorp Dimension (preferred), Eagle STAR/PACE, Charles River, Portia, Golden Source, Advent Geneva, BlackRock Aladdin, or equivalents with a focus on the use of such systems from a public and/or private markets perspective.
• Substantial knowledge of investment industry operational and functional capabilities.
• Substantial knowledge of investment industry