About AQR Capital Management AQR is a global investment management firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application We strive to deliver superior longterm results for our clients by seeking to filter out market noise to identify and isolate what matters most and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing Underpinning this philosophy is an unrelenting commitment to excellence in technology powering our insights and analysis This unique combination has made us leaders in alternative and traditional strategies since 1998 AQR takes a systematic researchdriven approach applying quantitative tools to process fundamental information and manage risk Our clients include institutional investors such as pension funds insurance companies endowments foundations and sovereign wealth funds as well as financial advisors The Team AQR is building a recent Data Engineering team within the Enterprise Engineering organization to focus on solving problems working with big data This team will work directly with researchers and others across the firm to build and manage the software that loads validates and provisions many large data sets used in the research and investment processes Your Role As a data engineering developer you will participate in designing and building a recent enterprise data platform used by quantitative researchers to manage large volumes of market reference and alternative data both structured and unstructured You will also build critical tools that will be used across the firm to validate data backtest and find valuable investment insights You will be collaborating directly with Researchers and Portfolio Managers to define and implement detailed business requirements for new and existing projects This critical team will use big data technologies and cloudbased platforms to build an extensible and scalable solution to the data needs of one of the largest quantitative investment firms in the wo