Job Description

Description – External Your team responsibilities This is an exciting opportunity to join MSCI as a Software Engineer, to play a role in designing and implementing world class technology solutions for ESG and Climate products. The primary functions of this role involve building a cloud native data and distribution platform from the ground up to scale MSCI’s data operations. This is a highly technical role, and a successful candidate will have both the requisite technical skills and the ability to partner successfully with both technical and non-technical employees across the firm.
What we will offer you:

• At MSCI, we provide competitive benefits programs in every region in which we do business. While our benefits plans vary in availability in our different locations, we offer a broad range of benefits that are part of the value you receive as a MSCI employee. Wherever you are with us, you will find benefits that can help ensure your health and well-being and contribute to your financial security.

Your key responsibilities

• develop and support scalable, extensible, and highly available data pipelines on heterogeneous datasets that power downstream applications and systems and serve content to our web and API products
• closely collaborate with partners across product and design, engineering, and business teams to drive innovations that improve our customers’ experience
• follow software-development best practices including test-driven development, contributing to documentation, feature flagging, etc
• help to maintain and improve existing ETL pipelines
• work with your team to troubleshoot and fix issues in ingest and processing, considering dependencies and integration points
• collaborate with DevOps to plan resources and continuously optimize the infrastructure and configuration of our data pipelines to ensure a healthy and high-performance production deployments

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Strong expertise in advanced data modeling, schema and ETL process design, implementation, and maintenance
• Experience with numerous data lake / warehouse technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, Presto, Dremio)
• Strong knowledge of data lake best practices
• Strong background in advanced SQL and focused on understanding, manipulating, processing and extracting values from large datasets and data streams
• Cloud experience (Azure or AWS preferred)
• Advanced Python skills or Java skills
• Experience with different variety of data types (JSON, Parquet, Excel, Flat files)
• Experience with databases and data storage frameworks including: Microsoft SQL, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Mongo, Cosmos DB, Delta Lake
• Expertise in cloud messaging platforms including Apache Kafka or Azure Service Bus
• Solid comprehension of common design patterns, algorithms, and data structures
• Working knowledge of containerization and modern cloud deployments including Docker and Kubernetes
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

How we’ll support you

• Coaching, support and encouragement from experts in your team
• Access to a wide range of learning opportunities to support your growth and development
• Customizable learning journeys to help you navigate your professional development
• Transparent performance-based compensation schemes
• Employee Resource Groups: MSCI Pride, Black Leadership Network, Women’s Leadership Forum, Women in Tech, Asian Support Network, All Abilities, Hola! MSCI and Climate Action Group.

About MSCI and our teams MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. Our values define the working environment we strive to create. We are inclusive, we champion bold ideas, we always pursue excellence, and always act with integrity. Personal accountability and responsibility are key to success, and we always work as a team to remain client centric. At MSCI diversity is at our core and inclusion defines our culture. Our people are empowered to maximize their potential in an environment where all individuals are respected and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work. We work, learn and grow together and we are committed to hiring and promoting qualified women, ethnic minorities and members of the LGBT+ community candidates, who have historically been underrepresented in financial services. To learn more about life at MSCI please visit https://careers.msci.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Glassdoor. To all recruitment agencies: MSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes. MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce. It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy/maternity leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.