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Manager, Portfolio Tools Engineering Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Posted 2 days 17 hours ago by Acadian Asset
Permanent
Full Time
Engineering Jobs
Not Specified, United Kingdom
Job Description
Overview Acadian is an equal-opportunity employer dedicated to promoting an environment of respect, acceptance, tolerance and cooperation. We value and support difference in age, gender, race, national and ethnic origin, physical abilities, religious beliefs and sexual orientation. We believe supporting diversity not only helps our employees develop as individuals, but makes Acadian a stronger company and a more rewarding place to work for all.
Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London, and Sydney. As of March 31, 2025, the firm managed approximately US$121 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.
Position Overview:
This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firm's flagship internal software products, delivering a market-leading portfolio management and decomposition platform that provides a competitive edge in systematic investing.
Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.
Responsibilities
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Acadian Asset Management LLC is a Boston-headquartered investment management firm with wholly owned affiliates located in Singapore, London, and Sydney. As of March 31, 2025, the firm managed approximately US$121 billion on behalf of major pension funds, endowments, foundations, governments and other investors based in the U.S. and abroad.
Position Overview:
This is an opportunity to own and evolve one of the firm's flagship internal software products, delivering a market-leading portfolio management and decomposition platform that provides a competitive edge in systematic investing.
Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of highly skilled portfolio tools engineers/full-stack engineers developing and enhancing a suite of portfolio management tools focused on decomposition, attribution, risk analysis, and transparency across portfolios.
- Architect and build the next-generation version of the portfolio decomposition and analytics platform, ensuring it is extremely fast, flexible, and scalable to meet the evolving needs of portfolio managers.
- Develop and maintain a rich, configuration-based language that enables portfolio managers to slice and dice portfolios at multiple levels (portfolio-level, asset-class level, etc.).
- Enhance capabilities for portfolio-level decomposition of weights, returns, and risks, allowing detailed breakdowns by classifications, geographies, strategies, factors, and asset classes.
- Design and implement enterprise-grade investment applications that are robust, battle-tested, and optimized for performance and usability.
- Work side-by-side with portfolio managers across equities, credit, and multi-strategy in Boston, Singapore, London, and Sydney, ensuring the tools align with their investment workflows.
- Ensure seamless integration of real-time investment insights into portfolio managers' decision-making processes, enabling them to answer questions on the spot without dependencies on other teams.
- Set direction for engineering, ensuring best practices in software architecture, scalability, and maintainability while remaining hands-on in development.
- Drive innovation in investment data workflows, optimizing how portfolio data is processed, stored, and queried to provide instantaneous insights.
- Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers, risk teams, and data engineers to ensure the investment stack is well-integrated and efficient.
- Foster a high-performance engineering culture, ensuring best-in-class code quality, execution speed, and maintainability.
- Extensive experience (10+ years) of leading and managing full-stack engineering teams in a quantitative finance, hedge fund, or asset management environment.
- CFA designation is a plus.
- Deep domain knowledge of the pre-trade investment process, including portfolio construction, risk management, and factor-based investing.
- Experience working with portfolio decomposition, attribution, risk modeling, and classification frameworks.
- Strong understanding of investment data structures and the full investment technology stack, including data modeling, storage, and retrieval at scale.
- Prior experience building high-performance, low-latency investment tools that enable real-time analysis and decision-making.
- Familiarity with data visualization and interactive frameworks such as Streamlit, Dash, and web-based analytics applications.
- Strong leadership and technical vision-setting skills, with the ability to drive execution while maintaining a hands-on role in development.
- A track record of delivering scalable, flexible software platforms that enhance portfolio transparency and decision-making.
- Additional preferred qualities include:
- Understanding of quantitative investment strategies such as those used by Acadian or other quantitative equity managers
- Ability to work as an effective team player, as well as a self-starter, who is willing to roll up their sleeves to help accomplish team goals
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment with time deadlines
Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.
As set forth in Acadian Asset Management LLC's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:
- A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
- A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
- An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
- An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
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Why are you being asked to complete this form?
We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.
Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at
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