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PIMCO · 1 hour ago

Data Strategy Lead

Newport Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$205K/yr - $305K/yr

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. They are seeking a Data Strategy Lead for their Portfolio Management business to shape the technical vision for data management and oversee the creation of a comprehensive internal data catalog.

BankingCrowdfundingFinancial ServicesVenture Capital

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Oversee the creation and management of a comprehensive internal data catalog, ensuring market and analytical data assets are easily discoverable and accessible

Implement best practices for data quality and accuracy to support high-impact analytics and investment decisions

Partner with senior leaders across Technology, Analytics and PM to align data strategies with business objectives and firm-wide technology initiatives. Ensuring cost effective solutions

Design and implement scalable data pipelines and production workflows for portfolio analytics, including reusable libraries for time series, financial modeling, risk, and performance analysis

Integrate new data sources into production systems, ensuring seamless ingestion, transformation, and validation. Lead efforts to optimize data acquisition strategies, ensuring alignment with a low-cost, high-value approach that maximizes business impact

Develop and enforce rigorous data quality controls, including automated validation, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and real-time monitoring for data integrity, latency, and completeness

Lead root cause analysis and remediation for data quality issues, collaborating with technology and analytics teams

Partner with Technology to design end-to-end production data lifecycle, from acquisition to analytics and reporting, while implementing best practices for CI/CD, version control, and testing

Ensure appropriate documentation and audit trails for all production data processes

Collaborate across PM groups and Analytics to provide thought leadership on leveraging AI/LLM and PIMCO data assets, to maximize business impact

Qualification

Data pipeline architectureFinancial modelingTime series analysisData quality controlPython programmingCloud data platformsBig data technologiesQuantitative analyticsRoot cause analysisCross-team leadershipCollaboration

Required

Proven experience architecting and managing production data pipelines and analytics platforms in financial services or asset management

Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and collaborate across business and technology functions

Programming in Python and experience with cloud-based data platforms and big data technologies such as AWS and Snowflake

Expertise in time series analysis, financial modeling, quantitative analytics, and strong understanding of global markets (i.e., fixed income, commodities, equities, and derivatives)

Strong background in data query, search, monitoring, and root cause analysis

Preferred

Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or related quantitative field

Company

PIMCO

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PIMCO, a global investment solutions provider that manages investments for public and private pension and retirement plans and other assets.

Founded in 1971

Newport Beach, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.pimco.com

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