Thornburg is a global investment firm delivering on strategy for institutions, financial professionals and investors worldwide. The privately held firm, founded in 1982, is an active, high-conviction manager of fixed income, equities, and multi-asset solutions. With $38.7 billion AUM and $1.2 billion AUA as of 31 December 2022, the firm offers mutual funds, closed-end funds, institutional accounts, separate accounts for high-net-worth investors and UCITS funds for non-U.S. investors.

Thornburg’s U.S. headquarters is in Santa Fe, New Mexico with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

As an independent firm, Thornburg can take on a wide range of opportunities, explore ideas thoroughly and work across strategies to deliver consistent risk-adjusted outperformance over the long term. The firm attracts free-thinking professionals who are eager to pursue investment outcomes beyond the confines of popular wisdom. From nimble operational capabilities to principles and actions fitting of a global citizen, Thornburg’s world-class investment platform and team are aligned on strategy to serve investors.

Job Summary

The Data Engineer will join a dynamic team within the IT Department designing, building, and optimizing solutions for data collection, storage, and access at scale.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain on-premises and cloud-based data pipelines to acquire, profile, cleanse, consolidate, integrate, persist, and expose structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Understand and influence long term data strategies and advocate for additional data sets and elements to improve delivered data products and quality.
• Collaborate with analysts to understand datasets and strategic business objectives.
• Support exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, predictive analytics, and machine learning models.
• Remain current on data architecture, analytics, and data science developments while researching new technologies and opportunities to improve data acquisition and enablement.
• Ensure systems meet industry best practices considering security, privacy, classification, performance, and retention requirements.

Job Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employer 401(k) safe harbor and profit-sharing contributions.
• Work/life programs such as flexible work arrangements, flexible paid time off, paid parental leave, employee assistance plan, commuter benefits, student loan repayment program, education reimbursement program.
• Community involvement opportunities.
• Onsite cafeteria.
• Onsite fitness center.
• Referral program.

• Asset management industry experience is desired.
• Proven expertise designing, building, and optimizing solutions at scale using Microsoft SQL Server technologies.
• Proven expertise creating data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Ability to understand, discuss and document complex data models and flows.
• Working knowledge of basic administrative tasks (e.g., backup and recovery, index maintenance, etc.).
• Working knowledge of Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services is desired.
• Working knowledge of IHS Markit EDM is desired.
• Must be accountable and detail oriented with excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to work non-business hours as needed.

Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico. Founded in 1610 and nicknamed "The City Different," Santa Fe captures hearts and minds with its museums, restaurants, theater, opera, and adobe-style architecture. With an average of over 300 sunny days per year and picturesque landscape, it's no wonder that outdoor activities such as skiing and hiking in "The Land of Enchantment" attract visitors from around the world.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Thornburg, we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace and consider a broad array of candidates with a variety of skills, workplace experiences, and backgrounds. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Thornburg believes that diversity and inclusivity are vital to positive long-term success for our strategies and the firm's broader business outcomes. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background.