Director Lead Data Scientist - Investments
About The Position
The Director, Lead Data Scientist will help define and build data and analytics capabilities within The Church Pension Fund’s Investments department. Partnering with the Chief Investment Officer, asset class leads, the risk and performance reporting team, and Church Pension Group’s data engineering team, this role will shape how CPF uses investment data to generate insights, evaluate portfolio opportunities and risks, and support decision-making. The position is expected to identify opportunities, develop new approaches, and influence the evolution of CPF’s investment process through data, rather than only respond to requests. CPF oversees approximately $20 billion across public and private investments and holds interests in several hundred individual funds. Its data ranges from portfolio Net Asset Values to details about holdings in venture capital, real estate, public equity, and other funds. CPF is building an internal data warehouse, initially focused on private-fund holdings data, with plans to expand it over time. The Director will help determine how the platform evolves and develop processes, analytical capabilities, and visualizations to derive greater value from investment data. The data engineering team maintains primary responsibility for data warehouse development. The Director will bridge Investments and IT, translating investment needs into data and technology priorities and solutions, and will have substantial ownership over the strategic direction and application of CPF’s investment data and analytics capabilities. Regular in-person, on-site interaction is required for relationship building and collaboration. The current hybrid schedule requires working in the CPG office Tuesday through Thursday, with flexibility to work remotely Monday and Friday.
Requirements
- Knowledge of institutional investment topics.
- Expertise in business intelligence and database management tools.
- Familiarity with coding languages used for data analysis.
- Strong understanding of data visualization and reporting techniques and toolkits.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly and communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to conduct research independently and under direction.
- Educational background in data science; a master’s degree in data science or a related field, such as mathematics or finance, with a data science concentration or certificate is preferred.
- 10+ years of relevant experience; experience within an investment organization or data provider is preferred.
Nice To Haves
- A master’s degree in data science or a related field, such as mathematics or finance, with a data science concentration or certificate.
- Relevant experience within an investment organization or a data provider.
Responsibilities
- Manage the Investments department’s data warehouse and work with asset class specialists to assure data quality.
- Develop an overall view of the Investments department’s data resources, combining the data warehouse with other vendor tools.
- Determine the strategic direction for CPF’s data analysis capabilities in collaboration with the CIO and other Investments team members.
- Use business intelligence tools to derive value from the data warehouse and other databases, creating and maintaining regular reports for the overall portfolio and individual asset classes.
- Respond to ad hoc data requests and inquiries, such as identifying valuation trends within private investment funds or sector and factor exposures within public equities.
- Carry out modeling and stress-testing at the portfolio and asset class levels.
- Develop well-supported hypotheses about portfolio exposures and risks and present them to asset class specialists, the risk team, and the CIO.
- Liaise with the Investments department’s vendor specialist to optimize data access and flow while managing resources prudently.
- Work with the data engineering team in Church Pension Group’s Information and Technology Services department to advance the data warehouse and ensure the overall data layer functions smoothly.
- Collaborate with data engineering to facilitate cross-vendor data quality checks and reconciliation.
Benefits
- Medical coverage, including vision.
- Dental insurance.
- Employer-funded defined benefit pension plan with five-year vesting.
- Employee life insurance.
- Spouse and dependent life insurance.
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance.
- Short-term disability coverage.
- Long-term disability coverage.
- Business travel accident insurance.
- Workers’ compensation.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Retiree health insurance, eligible after 10 years.
- Retiree life insurance.
- 401(k) with matching contributions and immediate vesting.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Commuter benefits.
- New York’s 529 College Savings Program for New York State residents.
- Educational Assistance Program.
- Parental leave.
- Vacation, sick, personal, and holiday time off.
- Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
