Margin & Collateral Platform Architect

Hudson River Trading; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson River Trading is seeking a Margin and Collateral Specialist to join our PostTrade team in New York. The role focuses on accurate margin data management, reconciliation, and automation to support risk and funding decisions across asset classes.

You will work with engineering and business stakeholders to design scalable processes, maintain a centralized data platform, and ensure smooth onboarding of counterparties while keeping documentation up to date.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a Collateral, Margin, or Treasury function.
• Strong understanding of margining practices and products (OTC derivatives, futures, cleared swaps).
• Ability to design and optimize tools in close collaboration with engineering teams; SQL and/or Python familiarity is a plus.
• Clear communicator with strong documentation habits and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute daily collateral functions around margin data management, margin reconciliation and handling disputes
• Partner with internal stakeholders to support margin replication, cost of capital analytics, and reconciliation workflows
• Architect and maintain a centralized margin and collateral data platform for external margin data storage
• Document and maintain margin mappings and controls
• Support onboarding of new counterparties and ensuring data integration aligns with system architecture
• Stay informed about evolving margin models and broker reporting practices and help translate them into scalable internal systems

Skills

SQL

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Hudson River Trading is seeking a Margin and Collateral Specialist to join our PostTrade team in New York. The role focuses on accurate margin data management, reconciliation, and automation to support risk and funding decisions across asset classes.

You will work with engineering and business stakeholders to design scalable processes, maintain a centralized data platform, and ensure smooth onboarding of counterparties while keeping documentation up to date.