Risk and Analytics Special Projects Manager

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.

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.

We are seeking a senior Program Manager to own delivery across these two interlocking programs: a hands-on, outcome-oriented leader who has run large cross-functional transformation in a trading and risk context, is comfortable at the intersection of infrastructure, application engineering and the business, and can pull disparate teams toward hard, time-boxed goals.

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.

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…