Job Description

Your Team Responsibilities

Team & Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team. The successful candidate will be someone who deeply cares about the environment, loves information technology, and appreciates the importance of data for the success of the First Street mission. They will assist in the ingestion of climate risk and ancillary data from First Street modelers and data partners, develop data pipelines, query geospatial databases, calculate applicable statistics, implement Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes, utilize geographical imagery, and ensure that databases and pipelines coordinate and synchronize with APIs, and web services. This individual’s expertise and leadership will enable all members of the Data Operations team to be successful in their roles.

Your Key Ressponsibilities

• Provide technical support in the processing, analysis, and interpretation of geospatial observations and modeling data.
• Develop and implement processes for processing large volumes of hazard prediction data to improve risk assessment quality and accuracy.
• Plan, execute and workflows on local and cloud-based environments, using technologies such as GDAL, PostgreSQL, Python, Spark
• Analyze raster and vector data at scale to improve model accuracy, identify quality control issues, and develop suggested remedies for identified issues.
• Perform statistical analysis to validate hazard model predictions and assess model uncertainties.
• Design and implement quality assurance checks on the climate risk data and derived statistics
• Assist in resolution of customer support issues through quality control checks and explanation of the models and risk statistics

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Bachelor's Degree in Data or Climate Science, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience
• Data operations: Experience with the design and use of databases, such as PostgreSQL
• Programming: Proficiency with SQL queries to efficiently and reproducibly analyze complex datasets preferred. Additional languages like Python also required.
• GIS knowledge: Experience with writing software to efficiently process and analyze with geospatial data using open source tools
• Strong understanding of probability and statistics as applied to spatial data
• Expertise using scripted languages to build data pipelines on both local and cloud-based systems
• Proficiency with source control platforms such as Git
• A science-based approach with a high degree of concern for reliability, accuracy and reproducibility
• Experience in GIS and/or geospatial statistical analysis
• Nice to have: experience in DBT and Spark

What will make you stand out:

• Previous experience in the physical sciences
• Masters Degree Preferred

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Salary range: $125,000 - $163,000 / year plus eligible for annual bonus
• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.
• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

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