Job Category: General Job Family (Recruiting)
Allspring is a leading asset management firm with close to $600 billion of assets under management, 24 offices globally, and specialized investment teams supported by more than 480 investment professionals. Allspring and our investment teams provide a broad range of differentiated products and solutions to help our diverse range of clients meet their investment objectives. We leverage the diversity of people, ideas, and skills to help our clients pursue their financial goals.
With a rich and established history in the asset management industry, Allspring is now a start-up at scale having spun off from Wells Fargo and acquired by GTCR and Reverence Capital Partners in November 2021. The new name, Allspring Global Investments, reflects our commitment to renewal, growth, and meaningful client outcomes. With decades of trusted expertise propelling us forward, were a company staying true to our core investment roots while reinventing ourselves to offer todays investors a fresh perspective.
We are seeking a strong and versatile developer to join our investment team of portfolio managers and analysts. You will need to be able to work effectively on both legacy systems and new development in multiple programming languages and tech stacks transition SAS-based systems through to modern cloud-based architectures written in R. You will work closely with our portfolio managers and senior analysts to support portfolio management platform operating smoothly, perform data quality check, and plan future enhancements to our systems. This is a role bridging IT and investment team, so you need to act as an escalated support to help IT troubleshoot any process error and provide solution for fixing the error. Much of this work will be under time pressure, so you will need to be able to make pragmatic decisions about prioritization of urgent versus future work and quick versus permanent solutions. Our business partners speak the language of portfolio management, so you will need to have a genuine interest in understanding financial instruments and portfolio construction/optimization. This is an exciting position in which hard work and results are recognized and rapid advancement is possible, but we also genuinely have a strong culture of collaboration, education, mutual support, and collegiality.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Learn about workflow of investment data and process
- Perform data quality control of the vendor data
- Trouble shoot data issue and support daily investment process
- Implement enhancement to existing process to mitigate future risk
- Provide programming support for data inquiry for various internal groups
- Willing to learn SAS programming
- Willing to learn investment management industry (prior experience a plus)
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information technology, or a related technical field
- Proficient in programming, with 2+ years of working experience
- Experienced or willing to learn R, Python and AWS cloud services
We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, sex, religion, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected status.
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