Senior Business Analyst

Who You’ll Work With

The Investment Infrastructure Research Data team is consolidating their quantitative investment framework. This includes migrating three distinct quantitative data architectures onto Snowflake, developing a new research and back testing framework, a new portfolio implementation toolkit, a new risk monitoring environment, and a new order and execution management system. Your role will focus on the data architecture component.

What You’ll Do

• Manage the onboarding of new research datasets
• Collaborate with our market data team to secure new data trial and license agreements
• Write data pipeline specifications, map external data to our internal data model, develop test cases, review test results, and oversee related development projects
• Write data quality rule specifications, configure related metadata, and collaborate with the ResearchData Oversight team
• Author data writeups in our data catalog and configure related metadata
• Manage permissions around licensed data sets
• Continuously improve our data management and oversight process, collaborating with our operations team to document data-related incidents, implement smarter controls, and mitigate the impact of data provider outages

What We’re Looking For

• Degree in Finance/ Economics, Operations Management, or Computer Science/ Engineering, Master’s degree preferred
• 5+ years’ experience as a business data analyst involved in enterprise data integration in the finance industry
• Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Refinitive QADirect, MSCI, BarraOne, et. al.
• 2+ years’ experience writing SQL queries to support data analysis
• Strong project management, analytical and quantitative skills
• Data modeling and mapping skills, ability to identify business data types and entity relationships
• Knowledge of financial instruments, market and fundamental research data
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering analysis, functional design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks
• Good communication skills and comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts and business partners
• Demonstrable curiosity in quantitative research and investment
• Python proficiency

About AB

We are a leading global investment management firm offering high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, retail investors, and private-wealth clients in major markets around the globe. Our ambition is to be the most trusted investment firm in the world, driven by our people who are fully invested in each other and the market. We strive to create an inclusive culture that rewards hard work and encourages intellectual curiosity and collaboration. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB’s policies and practices seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants based solely on job-related criteria.