AVP - BI Engineer - Risk Technology

Jefferies; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jefferies is seeking a hands-on Developer for its new technology center in Pune, India. The role involves building and operating risk dashboards using Astrato's direct-query connection to Snowflake, requiring strong data modeling and business intelligence skills.

The ideal candidate will have experience with risk management reporting and excellent communication skills. This position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that drives innovation in global capital markets.

Qualifications

• Data modeling and dashboard development experience, ideally using direct-query BI products.
• Experience with Snowflake SQL and delivering risk management reports.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support dashboards leveraging Astrato’s query capabilities.
• Optimize data models for reporting needs and performance.
• Investigate platform issues reported by teams.

Skills

Data modeling

Business intelligence fundamentals

Snowflake SQL

Dashboard development

Risk management reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

Astrato

Sigma

Tableau

Job description

Innovation Hub: Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands‑on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies. From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.

IT Risk Technology: Risk Technology is a global, cross‑functional team responsible for enterprise risk platforms at Jefferies. The team works closely with Risk Management and Trading to identify, measure, and manage risk across the firm. It designs, implements, and supports large‑scale, data‑intensive systems that facilitate risk data management, advanced analytics, visualization, analysis, and reporting across various asset classes.

Job Description

We are seeking a hands‑on Developer to build and operate risk dashboards and reports leveraging Astrato’s direct‑query connection to a Snowflake database containing all required risk and static data necessary to produce the firm’s risk. The ideal candidate brings deep knowledge of data modeling and business intelligence fundamentals & concepts, and can optimize performance, reliability, and compute costs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support scalable dashboards leveraging Astrato’s direct‑query capabilities integrated with Snowflake data warehouses.
• Optimize data models to normalize data to fit reporting needs, optimizing for performance to deliver accurate risk results in the least possible time.
• Support existing reporting solutions in production to ensure timely daily delivery of reports and dashboarding refreshes as defined by SLAs.
• Investigate platform issues reported by risk management and daily operational teams.
• Collaborate with other internal IT teams to ensure a seamless end‑to‑end process for delivering risk reports.

Essential Experience / Skills

• Data modeling and dashboard development experience, ideally using direct‑query BI products, such as Sigma and Tableau.
• Snowflake SQL expertise.
• Experience building and supporting risk management reports for equities, fixed income, credit, FX & commodities.
• Understanding of cash and derivative products and the risk measures for each (e.g., delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho).
• Understanding of the market data required to generate risk (e.g., yield curves, volatility surfaces, credit curves, correlation matrices, spot FX).
• Understanding of VAR, historical PnL vector generation, PnL generation, PnL attribution, custom risk scenarios.
• CI/CD and change management process.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar technical discipline.

Personal Attributes

• Team player with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex reporting or data issues.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Self‑starter and entrepreneurial in approach.
• Ability to escalate and follow‑up proactively.
• Good time management skills.
• Attention to detail.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.