The Client Reporting Team – Managed Solutions is seeking a highly experienced, hands-on Tenured Associate to lead AI-driven automation, agentic workflows, investment analytics initiatives, and custom reporting solution delivery. This role requires strong AI engineering capability, good understanding of investment/risk analytics, and full ownership of solution development across both AI and enterprise reporting domains.

This role requires a strong combination of AI engineering, LLM system design, automation architecture, and investment analytics domain knowledge, with a demonstrated track record of end-to-end ownership of AI/LLM solutions.

You will architect and deliver next-generation reporting, regulatory, and risk automation capabilities serving asset managers, hedge funds, asset owners, general partners, banks, institutional investors, and wealth managers.

• Architect, design, and deploy production-grade AI systems leveraging modern LLMs (GPT, BERT-family, Gemini, etc.).

• Develop and maintain RAG pipelines, multi-step reasoning workflows, and agentic automation systems for reporting and analytics use cases.

• Fine-tune, adapt, or optimize LLMs for domain-specific workflows related to reporting, validation, data processing, and automation.

• Python-based development of automation services, analytical workflows, validation engines, and reporting logic using pandas, NumPy and distributed processing using pyspark

• Integrate AI and automation capabilities with enterprise systems such as Snowflake, Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, reporting engine and internal MSCI APIs.

• Design scalable microservices, event-driven components, and cloud-native automation pipelines.

• Prototype advanced AI concepts (LLM orchestration, multi-agent systems, chain-of-thought workflows, MCP-based integration) and convert them into production-ready solutions.

• Diagnose and resolve complex data, performance, and system issues across reporting pipelines and automated solutions.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, Implementation Managers, Operations, and Client Coverage to deliver platform enhancements and AI-driven capabilities end-to-end.

• Mentor junior analysts and engineers, and help establish best practices for AI engineering, automation, and reporting workflow design.

• Play a dual role to support “run the business” operations by delivering custom client reports and reporting solutions using MSCI’s proprietary reporting tools and PDF report design using OpenText.

• Translate investment and risk analytics client reporting requirements into detailed reporting specifications for development and delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience across AI engineering, investment analytics, reporting technology, or enterprise automation.

• End-to-end ownership and proven experience of AI/LLM/agentic automation solutions in production environments.

• Strong Python engineering skills focused on automation, data transformation, API-driven workflows, and analytical scripting.

• Strong understanding of LLM architectures, RAG systems, embeddings, vector databases, and multi-agent reasoning patterns and orchestrating agentic AI systems

• Experience (or ability to learn quickly) with OpenText report design tools and XML-based MSCI proprietary reporting systems (training will be provided). Any previous reporting tool experince is preferred.

• Ability to independently architect and deliver complex automation or analytical pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, or equivalent orchestration/agentic frameworks.

• Experience integrating AI services with enterprise data systems or workflow tools.

• Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and cloud-native architectures.

• Exposure to metadata-driven reporting technologies (BIRT, JSON configurations, Figma-based template workflows).

• Good to have: foundational finance knowledge gained through academics, certifications, or job experience.

What we offer you

• 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.

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