Senior Analyst, Investment Risk and Data Science

Senior Analyst

Harbor Capital Advisors is seeking a Senior Analyst to join its Investment Risk and Data Science team, reporting to the Head of IRDS. The IRDS team is part of the broader Harbor Investment Research team and is primarily responsible for:

• Monitor the performance, risk, and positioning of Harbor investment strategies.
• Analyze prospective investment partners and support the development of new Harbor investment products.
• Provide timely, decision-ready portfolio analysis to the Investment Research team.
• Design, build, and maintain analytical tools and data-driven processes that improve investment decision-making across the firm.
• Strengthen the reliability, scalability, and continuity of the team's analytical and coding capabilities.
• Provide investment analysis and analytical support for internal and external communications when needed.

This hire will analyze portfolio performance, characteristics, and risk for existing Harbor strategies, support due diligence on prospective strategies, and develop analytical tools used by the Investment Research team and other stakeholders. A central responsibility of the role will be to strengthen the resilience of the team's technical capabilities. This includes building maintainable code, improving shared development practices, documenting analytical processes, reducing reliance on individual team members, and helping colleagues use and support the team's analytical tools.

The ideal candidate combines investment judgment with strong coding and data skills. The candidate should be a self-starter who takes ownership of problems, develops practical solutions, and moves work forward with limited direction while contributing to a collaborative and sustainable team environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze portfolio performance, positioning, characteristics, and risk using qualitative and quantitative information from portfolio management teams, researchers, market data, analytical platforms, and internal databases.
• Develop and clearly articulate investment insights that help the Investment Research team and other decision-makers understand portfolio outcomes, exposures, and sources of risk.
• Collaborate with Analysts and Research Directors on recurring oversight of existing subadvisors and the underwriting of prospective subadvisors.
• Design, build, test, and maintain analytical tools, applications, and data workflows using Python, R, SQL, or other appropriate technologies.
• Improve the reliability and scalability of recurring analytical processes through automation, validation, monitoring, and appropriate controls.
• Establish and follow sound development practices, including version control, code review, testing, documentation, reproducible analysis, and clearly defined ownership.
• Review and improve existing code, models, and analytical workflows to reduce operational risk, technical debt, and reliance on individual team members.
• Create clear technical and process documentation so that analytical tools and workflows can be understood, maintained, and supported by multiple members of the team.
• Help develop shared coding standards, reusable components, and common analytical frameworks across the IRDS team.
• Support the technical development of other team members through collaboration, code review, knowledge sharing, and informal mentoring.
• Identify gaps or inefficiencies in the team's methods for measuring and reporting strategy performance, characteristics, and risk, and take ownership of implementing improvements.
• Build tools that make complex investment analysis accessible and actionable for both technical and non-technical users.
• Research and implement improved methods for identifying, evaluating, and communicating sources of alpha and risk within actively managed strategies.
• Prepare accurate and time-sensitive analytical reports for Harbor's Board of Directors, internal investment committees, and other senior stakeholders.
• Participate in due diligence meetings with current and prospective subadvisors and synthesize quantitative and qualitative findings into actionable investment perspectives.
• Provide analytical support for fund-specific materials, webinars, client communications, and other external content as business needs require.

Key Behavioral Expectations:

• Drives for Results
• Creates Culture of Collaboration
• Courageous and Resilient
• Agility and Adaptability
• Operates with agency, independence, and proactive problem solving

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 5-10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in, or strong knowledge of, the asset management industry.
• Strong proficiency in Python or R and SQL.
• Ability to independently investigate open-ended investment and data questions.
• Ability to learn new technologies, data sources, and analytical methods.
• Strong attention to detail and a demonstrated commitment to data quality and analytical accuracy.
• Ability to work effectively in a…