Associate, PolyPaths Technology Specialist
About The Position
Santander is seeking an experienced PolyPath Market Risk Specialist to support pricing, valuation, and market risk activities in a large banking or capital markets environment. The role calls for expert PolyPath knowledge, hands-on programming in Python and Java, and a solid understanding of fixed income products, particularly structured products such as Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs), asset-backed securities, and other securitized instruments. The specialist will work with front-office, risk, finance, model, infrastructure, and technology teams to translate market risk and fixed income needs into technical solutions. The position supports risk models, valuation tools, pricing workflows, market risk systems, data flows, and the PolyPath platform. It also includes troubleshooting system and data issues, supporting production, and contributing to migration, modernization, integration, automation, and platform-stability initiatives.
Requirements
- Expert-level knowledge of PolyPath.
- Strong experience in market risk, preferably within banking or capital markets.
- Strong programming skills in Python and Java.
- Solid understanding of fixed income products, pricing, valuation, and risk analytics.
- Experience supporting risk models, valuation tools, pricing engines, or market risk platforms.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex system, data, and pricing issues across multiple technology platforms.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to explain technical and market risk concepts clearly to business and technology teams.
- Experience working in a large banking, financial services, or regulated financial institution environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
- Legally authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without requiring employer sponsorship to commence employment.
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of experience in banking, capital markets, financial technology, or market risk technology.
- Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
- Experience working directly with front-office, market risk, finance, model validation, or quantitative teams.
- Strong knowledge of structured fixed income products, especially MBS, CMOs, ABS, and securitized products.
- Understanding of pricing, valuation, sensitivities, stress testing, VaR, scenario analysis, yield curves, risk factors, and market data.
- Experience with system integration using APIs, messaging frameworks, batch processes, or data pipelines.
- Experience supporting real-time or high-volume capital markets platforms.
- Strong production support, issue management, and root-cause analysis experience.
- Established work history or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
Responsibilities
- Support and enhance PolyPath platform capabilities used for pricing, valuation, trading, and market risk workflows.
- Partner with business, risk, model, and technology teams to translate market risk and fixed income requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Support market risk processes, including sensitivities, stress testing, scenario analysis, VaR, pricing, and valuation workflows.
- Work with fixed income and structured products, including MBS, CMOs, asset-backed or securitized products, and other structured fixed income instruments.
- Develop, enhance, and troubleshoot applications, scripts, and integration components using Python and Java.
- Support pricing pipelines, risk data flows, market data integration, and valuation processes within the PolyPath ecosystem.
- Analyze system issues, performance bottlenecks, data discrepancies, and production incidents related to PolyPath and downstream risk systems.
- Collaborate with front-office, risk, finance, infrastructure, and application development teams to support accurate and timely delivery of risk analytics.
- Support migration, modernization, and integration initiatives involving legacy trading or risk systems and PolyPath architecture.
- Improve platform stability through automation, monitoring, alerting, and issue-resolution processes.
Benefits
- A fair and competitive rewards package.
- Benefits designed to support employees, their families, and their well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
