Dimensional Fund Advisors

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Our team seeks an intellectual and creative candidate within the Investment Engineering Analytics Platforms area to work on key projects spanning portfolio analytics and client applications within Dimensional.
• Success in the role will mean learning both the big picture and nuance of Dimensional’s investment philosophy and how it translates into the implementation of an investment process.
• Strong intellectual curiosity combined with an ability to dig into details is a prerequisite.
• The work is team-based and involves building and maintaining internal tools and frameworks to empower product teams to work more efficiently, as well as partnering with user groups to consult and onboard new use cases (where learning the SME knowledge, goals, processes of that team is critical).
• Success in the job, including career progression, will be driven by successfully maintaining and innovating in these frameworks and executing on projects to enhance and improve these tools.

Analyst/Associate, Investment Engineering – Data Distribution Team

Backend Engineer

• Participate in the design and development of software solutions across an array of domains from Research and Investments to Sales and Marketing
• Collaboratively developing MVPs to test their ideas and rapidly iterate with constant feedback from users
• Understand the users’ needs and solve problems like complex calculation engines in an ETL pipeline, database design, API and microservice design and engineering
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our clients
• Collaborate with front-end engineers on the design of solutions and APIs
• Perform software and data architecture and design
• Develop complex software solutions using back-end technologies
• Demonstrate and mentor software engineering best practices and participate in code reviews
• Develop configurations and automations to enable testing, infrastructure and deployments

Back-End Software Engineer, Contractor

Analyst

• Support cash management of portfolios with credit lines, currency hedges and cash forecasting
• Analyze voluntary corporate events and recommend elections to Portfolio Managers
• Prepare data for Portfolio Manager presentations to clients and internal executives
• Complete ad hoc requests from Portfolio Managers
• Propose and execute projects that increase process efficiency and improve portfolio outcomes
• Collaborate across business functions and teams, both internal and external to the firm

Analyst, Portfolio Management – Equities

DevOps Engineer

• Design, implement, and optimize modern DevOps processes and CI/CD pipelines to manage an on-prem environment.
• Write software for automation at each stage of the dev cycle including build, test, release, and deployment.
• Apply DevSecOps thinking to designing automated security and compliance controls into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Develop automation solutions using everything-as-code practices and tools.
• Collaborate across multiple technology and scrum teams to develop and drive the implementation of an effective DevOps strategy.
• Maintain, support and monitor application environments.
• Establish, track, adjust and report on DevOps and SRE metrics.
• Optimize systems and processes to improve the key metrics over time.
• Create telemetry and dashboards to monitor infrastructure & application health.
• Partner with test engineers to build automation and quality checks into the build pipeline in addition to writing test automation scripts.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and thought processes and drive changes to the DevOps and SRE philosophy, culture and tools.
• Contribute to community of practice discussions with broader IT and help with transition of platform responsibilities when needed.

DevOps Engineer – Contractor

• You will work closely with team members in the Global Client Group to service Australia based clients and assist with the development of new business opportunities.
• You will provide support to enhance client relationships and business development activities.
• This is a unique junior opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious person to join a collaborative, high calibre and growing team in an organisation that has a strong track recording of promoting from within.
• We are open to candidates in our Sydney office too.

Compliance

• Review and analyze marketing and other firm communications and recommend proposed edits as needed
• Provide support for licensing and registration responsibilities
• Advise sales and marketing teams on compliance-related issues
• Maintain processes and procedures for licensing and registration, and program initiatives, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and organizational goals
• Provide compliance support to sales channels and monitor supervisory activities
• Prepare, coordinate, and deliver annual compliance training, in collaboration with team
• Provide communications review and surveillance support for social media as necessary
• Assist with departmental compliance projects as assigned, such as annual compliance testing
• Ensure compliance with regulations and controls by examining and analyzing records, reports, operating practices, and documentation

Senior Compliance Analyst

• design, develop, document, and test multiple application services focusing on building a scalable platform and services
• expand and optimize our data and data pipeline architecture
• collaborate on solution design
• understand our client's needs

Analyst/Associate, Investment Engineering – Data Distribution Team

Back-End Software Engineer, Contractor

Analyst, Portfolio Management – Equities

DevOps Engineer – Contractor

Analyst

Senior Compliance Analyst

Senior Python Engineer

Senior Compliance Analyst