Data Engineer

会社概要/Company Overview

日興アセットマネジメントは、日本そしてアジアを代表する資産運用会社です。株式、債券、オルタナティブ、マルチアセットなど多様な資産クラスを対象とするアクティブ運用やETF（上場投資信託）を含むパッシブ運用など、革新的な投資ソリューションを提供しています。

60年を超える実績を誇り、30以上の国・地域から集まる人材を世界11カ国・地域に擁して、約200名の運用プロフェッショナルが約36.35兆円の資産を運用しています。グローバルな視点を活かし、お客様のニーズにお応えする様々な商品の開発を推進するとともに、優れた運用パフォーマンスの実現を常に追求しています。銀行などの金融機関、証券会社、生命保険・損害保険、ファイナンシャルアドバイザーなど、国内外の計300社超の販売ネットワークを通じ、個人投資家の皆様や年金基金や金融機関など世界中の機関投資家のお客様に対して幅広いサービスを提供しています。

With US$240.1 billion* under management, Nikko Asset Management is one of Asia’s largest asset managers, providing high-conviction, active fund management across a range of Equity, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Alternative strategies. In addition, its complementary range of passive strategies covers more than 20 indices and includes some of Asia’s largest exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Headquartered in Asia since 1959, the firm represents nearly 200** investment professionals and over 30 nationalities across 11 countries. More than 300 banks, brokers, financial advisors and life insurance companies around the world distribute the company’s products.

※2024年3月末時点
※世界の就業者数、運用プロフェッショナル：日興アセットマネジメント株式会社、および連結子会社の役社員を含む。
※運用資産総額：日興アセットマネジメント株式会社および海外子会社の連結運用資産総額（投資助言を含みます。）

Purpose Statement

The Global Data Systems and Solutions Department (GDSS) is responsible for the development, implementation, maintenance and support of globally aligned information systems that house commonly shared fund and investment related data, such as fund and account attributes, holdings, transactions, market data, as well as risk/performance metrics. The team receives data from different sources (internal and external), manages them as Data Steward across multiple applications, and publishes them to users and downstream systems globally

Key Responsibilities

The team is seeking a self-motivated and highly organized person with excellent analytical and technical skills to support business needs for data. This involves the implementation of an EDM (enterprise data management) solution and support of systems under the purview of the GDSS department. The role includes the following:

• Support the design and development of the EDM solution by reviewing the existing internal data infrastructure, identifying data sources, inputs, data flows, and advising on the optimal structure of the target solution
• Collaborate with global data and IT teams as well as data stewards to understand, define and document data requirements and the proposed database solutions
• Have an end-to-end vision on how a logical data model design will translate into physical data model and integration solutions through the layered architecture within the EDM solution
• Establish global regulations for operating the EDM solution with firm-wide operations and drive the transition to the new operating model
• Prepare specifications and related implementation artefacts such as workflow diagrams, use cases, test scenarios, and status reports
• Coordinate with vendor teams with regards to the EDM solution development, testing and deployment
• Evaluate datasets for consistency, completeness, and accuracy
• Develop process improvements for data management activities
• Provide support to production workflows such as monitoring of batch jobs and incident management
• Work with internal stakeholders to implement and enforce procedures and policies for efficient data management with attention to all technical aspects

Knowledge and Skills  

• Bachelor’ s degree in Computer Science or related field such as Data Science
• Familiar with design patterns, domain driven design and other software development best practices
• Knowledge in Data Management and Project Management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Fluency level proficiency in English and Business level in Japanese

Experience and Qualification

• At least 5 years hands-on back-end development experience with Python and SQL with exposure to full SDLC
• Relational database experience, preferably with MS SQL, and data modelling
• Good understanding of the asset management industry, with knowledge of  fund-related data (holdings, transactions, AUM, returns, benchmarks, etc) being an added advantage
• Operational experience as a Data Steward
• Experience in creating technical documentation, including design specifications and test cases.
• Prior experience in development and implementation of EDM solution will be advantageous

Personal Characteristics

• Proactive and detail oriented with capacity to translate data into meaningful information
• Possess a respectful understanding of the interests and objectives of all relevant stakeholders and ability to demonstrate a collaborative teamwork
• Ability to stay commercially focused and to always push for quantifiable commercial impact
• Independent thinker, willing to engage, challenge and learn
• Strong work ethics, a sense of ownership and urgency
• Propensity to take initiatives and act flexibly by seeing changes in the business environment as an opportunity for growth
• Capable of providing and delivering the best solution with creative and innovative ideas by foreseeing potential issues and opportunities
• Ability to communicate effectively and convincingly