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Your Team's Impact
Join FactSet's Deep Sector initiativea groundbreaking project delivering highly detailed, authoritative intelligence across nine industry verticals, including Banks, Insurance, and Healthcare. Our mission is to elevate specialized insights, granular data, and expert analysis, establishing FactSet as the leader in each niche.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build and optimize high-performance data pipelines, APIs, and backend systems to collect, structure, and deliver deep sector intelligence. You'll use Python and relational database technologies to support robust, data-driven applications. This role also offers a clear path to future leadership, including technical and team lead opportunities.
About Deep Sector Content
Deep sector content provides trusted, highly granular information focused on specific industry niches. It dives into complex datasets and specialized analysis, enabling clients to make informed, data-driven decisions at the highest level.
What You'll Do
- Architect, develop, and maintain Python-based systems powering Deep Sector data products.
- Design and optimize relational data models and queries for granular, industry-specific analytics across various relational database platforms (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc.).
- Build scalable APIs and integration layers for internal and external clients.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to integrate advanced analytics and machine learning into sector-specific products.
- Participate in technical design and code reviews to ensure continuous improvement and reliability.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and refine production environments for quality and stability of content delivery.
- Champion best practices, mentor junior engineers, and foster technical excellence within the team.
- Opportunity to take on future leadership responsibilities as part of your career growth.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in Python development.
- Advanced proficiency with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle)data modeling, query optimization, stored procedures.
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
- Experience designing and implementing large-scale, distributed systems for data-driven applications.
- Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills.
- Experience working with AWS (preferred), or other major cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP.
Nice To Have
- Experience with additional programming languages.
- Familiarity with modern Python frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Django, Flask).
- Exposure to document databases (e.g., MongoDB) or other NoSQL technologies.
- Knowledge of CI/CD practicesGitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOpsand Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Applied experience with machine learning approaches or data analytics.
Why Join FactSet Deep Sector
- Make a tangible impact on the future of specialized financial data and analytics.
- Work in a collaborative environment focused on deep technical expertise.
- Face challenging technical problems that underpin our authoritative industry intelligence.
- Unlock career advancementincluding future leadership pathways.
- Shape the future of Deep Sector expertise. Apply now to join FactSet!
What's In It For You
At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:
- The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
- Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
- Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
- A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
- Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
- Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.
Company Overview
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FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees Choice Award winner. Learn more atwww.factset.comand follow us onXandLinkedIn.
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