Data Engineer Assistant Vice President  

Department: Data & Analytics  

Location(s):  

iCapital is powering the worlds alternative investment marketplace. Our financial technology platform has transformed how advisors, wealth management firms, asset managers, & banks evaluate & recommend bespoke public & private market strategies for their high-net-worth clients. iCapital services approximately $179 billion in global client assets invested in 1,445 funds, as of January 2024. 

iCapital has been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 for seven consecutive years (2018-2023); a three-time selection by Forbes to its list of Best Startup Employers (2021-2023); & a three-time winner of MMI/Barrons Solutions Provider award (See link below). 

About the Role 

iCapital is looking for an Assistant Vice President Data Engineer to join our Data & Analytics team. This role will help build the infrastructure to make data a central part of iCapital. Data driven decisions are very critical for iCapital, as a result, we are looking for an Engineer that will be able to use the data and understand it to help make actionable decisions. The ideal candidate can quickly grasp complex & fluid business problems & solve them with robust & creative analyses after having built highly performant & scalable infrastructure to warehouse the data.  

Responsibilities 

• Leverage open-source technologies & cloud solutions to build elegant features that iCapital platform users love. 
• Develop & automate large scale, high-performance data platform infrastructure to drive iCapital business growth & enable data-driven organization. 
• Design & develop reusable components & frameworks for ingestion, cleansing, & data quality. 
• Streamline the ingestion of raw data from various sources into our Data Lake & Data Warehouse. 
• Design data models for optimal storage & retrieval that represent the product entities & meet business requirements. 
• Design & develop in Salesforce & Apex to automate processes & meet a variety of business needs. 
• Coordinate closely with sales & product development teams daily to push iCapitals FinTech strategy & improve the overall profitability of our business. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelors degree in computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics or other quantitative area or related field 
• 1-4 years of experience with open-source technologies or object-oriented/functional programming, strong ability to write easy-to-scale, & high-quality code 
• Experience in at least one numeric research framework (python/pandas, R/Splus, Octave/Matlab) 
• Familiar with OLAP (Redshift, Snowflake) & OLTP (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) databases 
• Familiar with various database designs (Relational, Columnar, NoSQL) 
• Experience with Salesforce development, Apex, & working with Apex classes, batching, bulk processing, triggers, events & event buses, & writing test classes 
• Experience using probability/statistics 
• Detail-oriented, able to multitask, & work in a fast-paced environment 
• Able to work independently while also being a strong team player 
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills 
• Passionate about programming & cutting-edge technologies 
• Masters in computer science, data science, or related field is preferred 
• Professional experience with Python & JVM based languages such as Scala, Java, & Kotlin is preferred 
• Experience building data-pipelines, data-lakes & data warehouses is preferred 
• Good knowledge of financial markets & financial instruments is preferred 
• Experience with AWS solutions such as Lambda, S3, Kinesis, ElastiCache is preferred 
• Familiar with AWS & infrastructure-as-code (terraform or cloud formation) is preferred 
• Experience with Salesforce & Apex development in processing large data sets is preferred 
• Familiar with the use & restrictions of PII data for analysis, research, development, & testing is preferred 
• Full-time or internship experience as a data engineer in the financial technology industry is a plus 

Benefits 

The base salary range for this role is $120000 to $140000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, & an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, & virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, & unlimited paid time off (PTO). 

We believe the best ideas & innovation happen when we are together. We offer most employees the flexibility to work in the office three or four days. Every department has different needs, & some positions will be designated in-office jobs, based on their function. 

For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us  Twitter: @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc | Awards Disclaimer: https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us/recognition/ 

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.