Soros Fund Management
Principal Risk Systems Engineer
New York · Principal
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About the role
- With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world's largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.
- Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it's not.
- Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations.
Responsibilities
- Design and build fast aggregation of risk and P&L data, including VaR and expected shortfall, with drill-down from firm to fund, strategy and position
- Run design reviews, set engineering standards, and mentor the team
- Design data models and compute that support both intraday and end-of-day risk
- Lead build-versus-buy decisions on analytics technology, weighing cost, performance and fit
- Work with Risk Managers and Portfolio Managers to turn what they need into designs, and explain the options and trade-offs to senior stakeholders
- 15+ years of software development, including significant time as lead architect on large data or analytics platforms in financial services
- Able to set a design direction, write it down, and bring the team along
- Comfortable in a fast-paced team, balancing design and delivery work with production support
- Experience building user interfaces and charts for risk or analytics tools
- Uses AI coding tools in practice to design, build and troubleshoot faster
Requirements
- Deep experience with in-memory analytics or OLAP tools on top of data warehouses or lakehouses
- Experience with factor risk models, risk attribution and portfolio construction
Compensation
- We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $200,000 and $250,000.
Benefits
- Experience across asset classes (e.g., Equity, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives) and their risk models
Company info
- Risk Development - Principal Risk Systems Engineer Company Overview Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1970.
- At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative.
- Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact.
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