Senior Lead Software Engineer - Python - Asset & WM

Job responsibilities

• Provides technical guidance and direction to support business and technical teams, contractors, and vendors delivering data ingestion, transformation, distribution, and data product capabilities on a federated data platform.
• Designs and develops secure, high-quality production code for scalable data pipelines, data services, and marketplace-facing Data Products; reviews, debugs, and improves code written by others.
• Leads design and implementation of reusable platform capabilities that make the platform and Data Products AI-ready (e.g., consistent meaning and definitions, strong metadata/lineage and quality signals, and consumption patterns that support both analytics and AI-enabled use cases).
• Drives decisions influencing product design, data product contracts, distribution approaches, and engineering processes to improve time-to-data, reliability, and consumer experience (including Quantitative Research).
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including approved AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation at scale.
• Establishes and promotes engineering standards and automation across the SDLC (testing, CI/CD, observability, performance), ensuring solutions are secure, stable, and scalable.
• Drives adoption and governance of approved AI-assisted engineering practices across teams to improve code quality and delivery outcomes, while setting measurable validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and encouraging reuse of proven patterns within the SDLC/TLM toolchain.
• Acts as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more focus areas (e.g., data engineering patterns, distributed processing, data product design, platform enablement), and contributes to the broader
• Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills