Data Strategy Lead
AI summary of the role
This role leads data strategy for PIMCO's Portfolio Management business, shaping the technical vision for data management and production that supports research, analytics, and decision-making.
No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.
What you’ll do
- Oversee creation and management of a comprehensive internal data catalog for market and analytical data assets.
- Design and implement scalable data pipelines and production workflows for portfolio analytics, including reusable libraries for time series, financial modeling, risk, and performance analysis.
- Develop and enforce rigorous data quality controls including automated validation, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and real-time monitoring.
- Partner with Technology to design end-to-end production data lifecycle from acquisition to analytics and reporting, implementing CI/CD, version control, and testing best practices.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience architecting and managing production data pipelines and analytics platforms in financial services or asset management.
- Programming in Python and experience with cloud-based data platforms and big data technologies such as AWS and Snowflake.
- Expertise in time series analysis, financial modeling, quantitative analytics, and strong understanding of global markets (fixed income, commodities, equities, and derivatives).
- Strong background in data query, search, monitoring, and root cause analysis.
Technologies
Python · AWS · Snowflake · CI/CD · AI/LLM · time series analysis · financial modeling · data catalog · data pipelines · data quality
About PIMCO
Global active fixed-income manager serving institutional and wealth investors across public markets, private credit, real estate, ETFs, and custom portfolio solutions.
Acquired · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients. Job Description We are seeking a Data Strategy Lead for our Portfolio Management business to join us in our Newport Beach (preferred) or NYC office. This person will be part of our PM Analytics function and be responsible for shaping our technical vision for data management and production that underpins our research, analytical tools, dashboards and decision-support for our PM teams. You will oversee the creation of a comprehensive internal data catalog that will enable seamless discovery, access, and governance of high-quality market and analytical data. Your cross-team leadership will drive the development of scalable, reusable analytical frameworks - especially for financial time series analysis, while ensuring rigorous data quality and production workflow oversight. Key Responsibilities Data Catalog & Governance Oversee the
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PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns. Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients. Job Description We are seeking a Data Strategy Lead for our Portfolio Management business to join us in our Newport Beach (preferred) or NYC office. This person will be part of our PM Analytics function and be responsible for shaping our technical vision for data management and production that underpins our research, analytical tools, dashboards and decision-support for our PM teams. You will oversee the creation of a comprehensive internal data ca [... source excerpt omitted ...] ss-team leadership will drive the development of scalable, reusable analytical frameworks - especially for financial time series analysis, while ensuring rigorous data quality and production workflow oversight. Key Responsibilities Data Catalog & Governance Oversee the creation and management of a comprehensive internal data catalog, ensuring market and analytical data assets are easily discoverable and accessible. Implement best practices for data quality and accuracy to support high-impact analytics and investment decisions. Technical Leadership & Architecture Partner with senior leaders across Technology, Analytics and PM to align data strategies with business objectives a [... source excerpt omitted ...] nd production workflows for portfolio analytics, including reusable libraries for time series, financial modeling, risk, and performance analysis. Integrate new data sources into production systems, ensuring seamless ingestion, transformation, and validation. Lead efforts to optimize data acquisition strategies, ensuring alignment with a low-cost, high-value approach that maximizes business impact. Data Quality Control Develop and enforce rigorous data quality controls, including automated validation, anomaly detection, reconciliation, and real-time monitoring for data integrity, latency, and completeness. Lead root cause analysis and remediation for data quality issues, collab
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