Lead Technologist, Cloud Engineering

About the role

MIO Partners Inc. (MIO) is a global, world-class investment and advisory institution with a decades-long track record of performance for our clients through multiple market cycles. Our team of approximately 250 people provides asset management and advisory services to current and former McKinsey employees. We manage more than $20 billion in assets across public and private markets. We are headquartered in New York City, with offices in Atlanta, Georgia; West Palm Beach, Florida; Germany; Hong Kong; Singapore; Spain; and the UK.

We provide objective advice on long-term wealth building and create distinctive investment products that deliver value relative to market-based benchmarks. We operate two core lines of business: (i) our advisory team provides advice, wealth planning, and retirement services to approximately 2500 individual clients, and (ii) our investments business consists of alpha-seeking alternative investment strategies across public and private markets.

A defining characteristic of our business is our perfect alignment with our clients. Our extraordinary mandate as a boutique investment and advisory firm, grounded in a core set of principles, enables us to create unique products and services while keeping our clients’ interests front and center.

Much of our success can be attributed to our insatiable intellectual curiosity. We seek to hire individuals who are passionate about our mission and values, and who always strive toward excellence. We care about fostering a culture of continual improvement, as individuals and as an organization, and are excited to work with individuals who have a similar growth mindset. We are proud to have a culture that promotes the highest ethical standards and investor-focused values, alongside a commitment to diversity and inclusivity and a highly collaborative work environment.

MIO (and related entities) is an independent, indirect, and wholly owned subsidiary of McKinsey & Company.

Position

MIO’s Enterprise IT team seeks a Lead Technologist who will be responsible for managing MIO’s AWS Cloud environment. This individual will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to design and implement DevOps and platform engineering best practices. This role is critical to enable a standard, secure, scalable, resilient, and efficient MIO application and infrastructure footprint within our cloud environment. The Lead Technologist will also be expected to work collaboratively with others in IT and business to realize the full life cycle of system development projects, from requirements gathering to application design, coding, testing, delivery, support, and enhancements.

Primary responsibilities

The successful candidate will have extensive technical experience working with AWS cloud technologies, preferably for financial services firms, such as asset managers, hedge funds, and/or broker/dealers.

The new hire must lead by example and work collaboratively to: • Architect and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) with security, stability, and cost in mind • Design and oversee implementation of CI/CD pipelines and automation strategies • Establish infrastructure as code practices using CDK, GitLab, AWS developer tools • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure platform stability • Evaluate and select appropriate cloud technologies and develop best practices based on MIO’s use cases • Ensure application architectures follow cloud best practices for reliability, security, performance, and efficiency • Develop and enforce best practices for system security, compliance, and disaster recovery • Optimize infrastructure costs while maintaining performance standards • Develop reference implementations and contribute through hands-on coding as needed • Work with development teams to improve deployment processes and system reliability • Collaborate with business owners to translate business requirements into technical solutions with an eye toward technology consistency and best practices • Work with engineers, business users, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure solutions align with business goals • Maintain detailed documentation for reference architectures, design patterns, and system configurations • Raise the bar on our development capabilities, standards, and processes • Synthesize requirements gathered from various teams within/outside of IT and suggest creative solutions; where appropriate, guiding MIO to “do it the right way” • Following a scrum methodology, organize with end users, business analysts, and other architects and developers • Recommend positive steps toward standardizing development processes, including technology selection, deployment steps, code reviews, and IT tools • Partner with development, QA, and AppSecOps teams to promote standardization, consistency, and improved security posture