Data Engineer, iCapital
Vice President
$160-200k
+ equity and annual performance bonus
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Fintech platform for alternative investments
Be an early applicant
Fintech platform for alternative investments
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-200k
+ equity and annual performance bonus
More information about location
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To transform the world's investment industry for better outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related data-focused technical role
- Proven ability to partner with business, product, and technical stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions and platform capabilities
- Expert-level Python and SQL skills with experience building modular, testable, and production-grade software
- Strong experience designing analytical data models, semantic layers, shared metrics, and reusable data products
- Deep expertise with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or similar modern data ecosystems
- Experience building scalable batch and streaming data pipelines in enterprise environments
- Proficiency with orchestration and transformation frameworks such as Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, dbt, or comparable tools
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented and functional programming methodologies
- Understanding of modern AI architectures, including agent-based systems, retrieval patterns, semantic context modeling, knowledge representations, and enterprise data grounding
- Experience building, supporting, or scaling enterprise data platforms used across multiple teams, products, or business domains
- Strong product mindset with the ability to identify reusable platform capabilities versus one-off solutions
- Excellent written, verbal, and cross-functional communication skills
- Knowledge of graphs, ontologies, metric stores, and other machine-readable representations of business context
- Expertise in LLM applications, agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, embeddings, vector search, and tool-calling architectures
- Able to evaluate AI systems for accuracy, consistency, security, and retrieval quality
What the job involves
- ICapital is seeking a strategic, product-oriented, and technical Data Engineer to help scale the Enterprise Analytics Platform and shape how data is accessed across the organization
- This individual will lead the design and evolution of trusted, governed, and scalable data products that power analytics, reporting, operational workflows, and AI-driven capabilities
- This is a hands-on, highly collaborative position that will directly influence iCapital's long-term data strategy, AI readiness, and enterprise data ecosystem
- Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and Engineering teams to understand data usage patterns, requirements, and unmet needs across critical workflows
- Translate business needs into data product strategies, technical requirements, platform capabilities, and measurable outcomes
- Design and maintain governed semantic models, business metrics, entities, and contextual frameworks that support analytics, machine learning, and AI applications
- Partner with Data Governance and domain owners to establish and enforce business definitions, ownership standards, calculations, and access policies
- Collaborate with Analytics teams to ensure trusted and consistent metrics are accessible for reporting, dashboards, predictive analytics, and operational decision-making
- Build, automate, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platform infrastructure that support enterprise growth and data-driven decision-making
- Develop reusable frameworks and components for data ingestion, transformation, modeling, quality management, and observability
- Drive platform reliability, scalability, monitoring, testing, and operational excellence through automation and continuous improvement
Our take
Alternative investing can yield huge profits, but it can often be inaccessible, even to enterprises. iCapital solves this problem by guiding large-scale businesses through the alternative investing process.
Since launching in 2013, iCapital has provided enterprises with an investing marketplace. Its focus has been on banking, wealth management, and asset management companies, and iCapital now serves clients such as JP Morgan, Evercore, and Rockefeller. As of February 2025, the company services nearly $500 billion in global client assets, clear evidence of industry confidence in the company.
iCapital's impact on the financial world is undeniable, forging strong and profitable partnerships with leading institutions like Morgan Stanley. With a proven track record, impressive funding and a rapidly growing platform, iCapital is poised for significant further expansion in the years to come.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2025
$820m
SERIES E
Dec 2021
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company HQ
Murray Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Lawrence Calcano
(CEO & Chairman)Previously worked as Director of Capitol Acquisition Corp., and served as Director of Vibrant Emotional Health for 10 years.
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