Risk and Analytics Special Projects Manager

Sacbar; Newport Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education reimbursements

Ongoing training in technology and DEI

Lunch-and-learns / technical forums

Job summary

PIMCO is modernising its Trading and Risk technology estate, moving core systems to the public cloud and re-platforming applications that produce positions, P&L and risk. The Program Manager will lead two tightly coupled streams, reducing legacy on-premise data footprints and optimizing data interactions while maintaining production stability.

The role requires deep experience in cloud migrations, front-to-back systems, and strong stakeholder engagement, with delivery leadership across

Qualifications

• 12+ years leading large, complex technology transformation programs in financial services.
• Experience migrating to the cloud and re-engineering applications under live production constraints.
• Hands-on public-cloud migration at scale with a hybrid data architecture.
• Strong grounding in front-to-back trading/risk or investment-accounting systems.
• Proven ability to lead delivery across organizational boundaries and drive cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program planning, roadmap and execution across two workstreams; define milestones and RAID.
• Coordinate with infrastructure, application engineering, operations tech and external providers to deliver outcomes.
• Establish instrumentation and evidence to diagnose data issues and manage program financials and cloud commitments.
• Synchronize with risk/finance stakeholders to ensure alignment with firm-wide modernization goals.

Skills

Program management

Delivery leadership

Cloud migration

Trading/risk systems

Stakeholder management

PM credentials

Job description

We are a leading global asset management firm with over 3,000 employees across 20 offices in 15 countries; we help millions of investors around the world pursue their financial goals.

We hire critical thinkers. People who thrive in a collaborative culture like ours where we solve real problems while building the future of finance.

You

• Are excited to be part of a vibrant engineering community that values diversity, hard work, and continuous learning.
• Love solving complex real-world business problems.
• Recognize that cross-functional collaboration is a core component of success for the team.
• Believe there are multiple ways to solve most technical problems and are willing to debate the trade-offs.
• Have become a stronger engineer by making mistakes and learning from them.
• Are a doer, someone who wants to grow their career and gain experience across technologies and business functions.

We

• Continuously invest in a high-performance and inclusive culture, in which a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints are celebrated and valued.
• Encourage career mobility, so you can benefit from learning different functions and technologies, and we gain the benefits of your experience across teams.
• Run technology pro bono programs that help the non-profit community and give our engineering community opportunities to volunteer and participate.
• Offer education reimbursements and ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion.
• Embrace knowledge sharing through lunch-and-learns, demos, and technical forums.
• Consider our people to be our greatest asset-we will help you learn what PIMCO Technology has to offer so you can participate in activities that benefit your career while delivering impactful technology solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Trading and Risk technology estate is entering a multi-year period of structural change. We are modernising our infrastructure, moving core systems to the public cloud, and re-platforming the applications that produce the firm's positions, P&L and risk - all while those systems continue to run in full production every day. In parallel, we are replacing a core book-of-record accounting capability and re-wiring how Risk consumes that data.

Cloud Transition (Trading & Risk)

The Program Manager will drive two tightly-coupled challenges as our applications move to the cloud. First, materially reducing our legacy on-premise database footprint - both hardware and, above all, the volume of stored data - by coordinating the application-team cleanup, rationalisation and data-tiering effort that infrastructure teams cannot deliver alone. Second, managing the performance implications of a hybrid operating model, where applications move to the cloud ahead of certain data stores: the PM will lead the program to get application teams to profile and optimise their data interactions so they remain performant through the transition, against a backdrop of continuous production use and no tolerance for service degradation.

Book-of-Record Replacement & Risk Integration

Over a multi-year horizon the firm is replacing a core accounting book-of-record capability and standing up new position and accounting services, while retiring legacy tooling. The Program Manager will ensure our Risk systems integrate cleanly with the new platform and transition off the incumbent solutions as the source of intraday and end-of-day positions and P&L; coordinate against the provider's technology roadmap and its regulatory milestones; and manage the sequencing and reconciliation risk of running this replacement in parallel with related front- and middle-office tooling changes. A firmwide middle-office modernisation effort will be driving this forward; this role provides the delivery leadership from the Risk & Reporting side to keep the two in lockstep.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Own end-to-end program planning, roadmap and execution across both workstreams - scope, milestones, dependencies, RAID and governance reporting to senior stakeholders. Drive delivery teams to concrete, measurable outcomes and hold delivery lines accountable to firm deadlines. Partner across infrastructure, application engineering, operations technology and external technology providers. Establish the instrumentation and evidence base needed to diagnose issues on data rather than anecdote, and manage program financials and cloud-commitment implications

REQUIREMENTS

• 12+ years leading large, complex technology transformation programs in financial services, ideally in a trading, risk or investment-management context
• Demonstrated success combining cloud/infrastructure migration with application re-engineering under live production constraints
• Hands-on experience with public-cloud migration at scale, including the operational and performance trade-offs of a hybrid estate
• Strong grounding in front-to-back trading/risk or investment-accounting systems (positions, P&L, book-of-record integration)
• Proven ability to lead delivery across organizational boundaries and drive teams that do not report to them
• Excellent stakeholder management up to C-suite; clear, evidence-based communication
• Formal program/project management credentials (PMP; SAFe/Agile)

Preferred

• Regulatory-driven transformation experience (e.g. settlement or capital-related mandates)
• Experience with large-scale data-store modernisation and migration
• Risk/finance qualifications (FRM, CFA) a plus

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $ 150,000.00 - $ 250,000.00

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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