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With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and s\nmall, that can benefit our clients.\nThe Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer scalable, innovative, and research driven solutions to improve our client’s financial lives.\nJob Purpose:\nThe Principal Software Engineer delivers new technology capabilities for the Portfolio Management teams within Investments. This role is responsible for serving as a technical leader and collaborating with cross-functional teams to architect solutions that support our investment software systems and strategies. This role will evaluate existing architectures, platforms and technology and lay out a future state platform and guide the execution of building that system. 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