Principal Solutions Engineer - Risk Analytics
About The Position
What makes Us, Us Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp! At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered. If you like what we’re saying, keep reading! Why This Role Is Important To Us We are looking for a Principal Solutions Engineer - Risk Analytics, with deep expertise in multi-asset risk who would be part of our Americas Solution Engineering Team. The Performance & Risk Solutions Engineering (“PreSales”) team is focused on the quantitative parts of the investment process across risk, performance attribution, and portfolio optimization. You will act as a key subject matter expert in multi-asset class risk on behalf of the firm. Working with clients and prospects, you will present the risk solutions including both demoing the software and explaining the risk modeling. You will support the sales teams navigating complex risk use cases across asset managers, asset owners, and hedge funds. This role is also critical to bringing feedback to the product team to enhance the product.
Requirements
- Degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, finance, econometrics, financial engineering, or operations research.
- 7+ years of experience in quantitative finance.
- Knowledge of risk analytics used at buyside firms: hedge funds, asset owners, and asset managers.
- Ability to present complex analytical or technical frameworks.
- Strong problem-solving skills with persistence with perfection.
- Willingness to travel as required.
- Ability to work in the office 2-3 days a week per our hybrid policy.
Nice To Haves
- Professional designations are valued (CFA, FRM).
- Understanding of the use of APIs (Java, Python, R, Webservices, Matlab) is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Provide subject-matter expertise on multi-asset class investment risk analytics: ex-ante risk/tracking error, stress testing, and single security analytics.
- Strong understand of fixed income products and derivatives.
- Ability to both demo Axioma risk analytics tool and explain the underlying modelling assumptions that go into the analytics.
- Gather requirements and handle objections with prospects.
- Work with product to bring prospect feedback to help improve product.
- Support sales across discovery, request for proposal (RFP), demo, and proof of concept(POC).
Benefits
- Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement.
- However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more.
- Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work and life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model.
- And opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
