Investment Data Strategist Research Market Data Replication

Investment Data Strategist

(Hedge Fund Performance, Market Data & Replication infrastructure)

Location:

DBi HQ in Greenwich, Connecticut (on-site)

Firm:
Dynamic Beta Investments (DBi)

Compensation: $180k–$250k total compensation (base + discretionary bonus), experience-dependent

Role Context

DBi is a systematic hedge fund focused on hedge fund replication with a lean investment team.

We are hiring an experienced professional to own the firm's hedge fund performance and market data workflows, from external data providers through research, monitoring, and reporting.

This role is designed for someone who understands how data quality, structure, and availability affect investment decisions, and who is comfortable working hands‑on with modern data tools to support that goal.

This is not a pure engineering role.

What You Will Own

Hedge Fund Performance Data

• Ownership of hedge fund and strategy-level performance datasets sourced from multiple external providers
• Reconciliation of data across vendors and vintages
• Deep understanding of reporting lags, revisions, backfill bias, survivorship bias, and coverage gaps
• Ongoing improvement of data quality, consistency, and interpretability

Market Data

• Ownership of market data used in replication, benchmarking, and diagnostics
• Reasoning about market data quality, coverage, and edge cases
• Ensuring consistency between historical market data used in research and data used in ongoing monitoring
• Understanding how market structure and liquidity affect observed data
• Working knowledge of futures markets, including contract specifications, rolls, expiries, and liquidity dynamics
• Construction and maintenance of continuous futures time series, with awareness of roll methodologies and their impact on returns and signals
• Understanding how contract rolls, gaps, and calendar effects influence historical analysis and live monitoring

Reporting & Communication

• Build and maintain performance and analytics reports for internal investment use and external distribution
• Ensure reported results are accurate, consistent, and appropriately caveated
• Translate complex data issues into clear, investment-relevant explanations

Investment Data Judgment

• Resolve discrepancies between data providers and market sources
• Treat data ambiguity and errors as investment and reputational risk
• Ensure historical data used in analysis is comparable to live or ongoing reporting

Systems & Workflow Ownership

• Maintain and evolve internal data workflows supporting performance analysis and replication
• Improve transparency, reliability, and efficiency of investment data processes
• Propose pragmatic improvements grounded in investment impact rather than tooling preference

Required Background (Non-Negotiable)

Candidates must have:

• Prior experience working with hedge fund, asset manager, or investment data
• Direct exposure to hedge fund performance data and market data
• Experience reconciling data across multiple performance or market data providers
• Understanding of common biases and limitations in hedge fund and market data
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Python proficiency, including pandas for data analysis and manipulation & Streamlit or similar frameworks for internal reporting or dashboards
• Strong SQL, including experience querying and designing data in SQL Server / Cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred)
• Comfort working hands‑on with data systems and reporting workflows

Candidates without real exposure to hedge fund performance or market data will not be considered.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience with hedge fund replication, benchmarking, or factor‑based strategies
• Experience producing client‑facing or investor‑facing performance reports
• Close collaboration with portfolio managers or investment teams
• Comfort operating with high autonomy and ambiguity

Explicitly Not a Fit

This role is not for:

• Generic software or platform engineers
• BI or visualization‑only roles
• Candidates without hedge fund or market data exposure
• Tool‑centric profiles without investment judgment

Working Model

• On‑site five days, Connecticut
• Senior individual contributor
• Close proximity to investment decision‑making
• High trust, high accountability

Hiring Note

We are looking for someone who understands how hedge fund performance and market data are produced, where they break, and how those weaknesses affect replication and reporting. Technical skill matters, but judgment and investment intuition matter more.