The Voleon Group
Applying statistical machine learning to investment management.
Technical Manager, Strategy Research Analytics
Location
United States
Posted
73 days ago
Salary
$225K - $255K / year
Bachelor Degree3 yrs expEnglishSparkSQL
Job Description
• Lead a high-impact team responsible for maintaining and evolving Voleon’s core analytics pipelines and data models
• Ensure reliability while building toward a world-class analytics platform
• Translate the needs of researchers and data scientists into robust, scalable, and reproducible analytics systems
• Collaborate with leaders across Research, Engineering, ProdOps, and Data Infrastructure
• Define a clear roadmap for analytics enablement and drive operational excellence
• Empower data scientists to focus on high-value research analysis
• Drive team execution, clarify ownership boundaries, and ensure visibility and accountability
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 3+ years of proven experience managing geographically distributed software engineering teams
- 3+ years of experience managing engineering or data teams focused on analytics or data infrastructure
- Demonstrated success managing through ambiguity, influencing without direct authority, and leading complex cross-team initiatives
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of clearly articulating vision, progress, and impact
- Proven ability to attract, hire, mentor, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Product-focused mindset, with experience shaping product vision, defining roadmaps, and delivering high-impact platform solutions
- Strong background in modern data infrastructure and modeling (e.g., SQL, Presto, Spark, Dask, Polars)
- Strong understanding of query optimization and performance tuning in SQL and experience with columnar storage formats (e.g., Parquet, ORC)
- Demonstrated experience designing normalized and denormalized data structures for analytical workloads
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision coverage
- life and AD&D insurance
- 20 days of paid time off
- 9 sick days
- 401(k) plan with a company match
