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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.
ABOUT THE JOB
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
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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.
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Technical Leadership & Architecture:
Partner with senior leaders across Technology, Analytics and PM to align data strategies with business objectives and firm-wide technology initiatives. Ensuring cost effective solutions. Design and implement scalable data pipelines and 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.
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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, collaborating with technology and analytics teams.
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Production Process Management:
Partner with Technology to design end-to-end production data lifecycle, from acquisition to analytics and reporting, while implementing best practices for CI/CD, version control, and testing. Ensure appropriate documentation and audit trails for all production data processes.
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Analytics Innovation:
Collaborate across PM groups and Analytics to provide thought leadership on leveraging AI/LLM and PIMCO data assets, to maximize business impact.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or related quantitative field preferred.
- Proven experience architecting and managing production data pipelines and analytics platforms in financial services or asset management.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and collaborate across business and technology functions.
- 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 (i.e., fixed income, commodities, equities, and derivatives).
- Strong background in data query, search, monitoring, and root cause analysis.
PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.
Salary Range: $ 205,000.00 - $ 305,000.00
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement
PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.
Applicants with Disabilities
PIMCO is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, including veterans, in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system due to a disability and you would like to request an accommodation, you may contact us at 949-720-7744 and leave a message. This is a dedicated line designed exclusively to assist job seekers with disabilities to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be considered. A response to your request may take up to two business days.
INTRODUCTION
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.
ABOUT THE JOB
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 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 and firm-wide technology initiatives. Ensuring cost effective solutions. Design and implement scalable data pipelines and 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, collaborating with technology and analytics teams.
-
Production Process Management:
Partner with Technology to design end-to-end production data lifecycle, from acquisition to analytics and reporting, while implementing best practices for CI/CD, version control, and testing. Ensure appropriate documentation and audit trails for all production data processes.
-
Analytics Innovation:
Collaborate across PM groups and Analytics to provide thought leadership on leveraging AI/LLM and PIMCO data assets, to maximize business impact.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advanced degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or related quantitative field preferred.
- Proven experience architecting and managing production data pipelines and analytics platforms in financial services or asset management.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and collaborate across business and technology functions.
- 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 (i.e., fixed income, commodities, equities, and derivatives).
- Strong background in data query, search, monitoring, and root cause analysis.
PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.
Salary Range: $ 205,000.00 - $ 305,000.00
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement
PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.
Applicants with Disabilities
PIMCO is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, including veterans, in job application procedures. If you have any difficulty using our online system due to a disability and you would like to request an accommodation, you may contact us at 949-720-7744 and leave a message. This is a dedicated line designed exclusively to assist job seekers with disabilities to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be considered. A response to your request may take up to two business days.
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Look for companies that list PERM as a benefit in job postings or have an in-house immigration team. Data Strategy Lead roles at large technology, finance, and healthcare organizations are more likely to absorb the legal costs of a full PERM cycle.
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Negotiate green card sponsorship into your offer before signing
Employers are not required to sponsor green cards, so raise it explicitly during offer negotiation rather than after onboarding. Clarify which visa category they'll file under, whether they cover legal fees, and their policy if you change roles internally before your priority date becomes current.
Prepare for the PERM recruitment audit window
Your employer must complete DOL-mandated recruitment steps before filing your PERM application. Delays often occur when internal hiring managers are unfamiliar with audit documentation requirements. Ask your employer's counsel early how they plan to retain recruitment records for the mandatory five-year retention period.
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Does a Data Strategy Lead role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Data Strategy Lead positions qualify for EB-2 because they typically require a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus substantial progressive experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field. If the employer defines the role at the bachelor's-degree level, EB-3 is also available. The category determines your priority date queue, which matters most for nationals from high-backlog countries like India and China.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B grants temporary work authorization in two- or three-year increments and is subject to an annual lottery. Green card sponsorship through PERM and I-140 has no annual cap at the EB-3 level and leads to permanent residency. The trade-off is time: the PERM process alone takes one to two years before USCIS even adjudicates the I-140, but the result is a permanent status rather than a visa you must continuously renew and requalify for.
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Migrate Mate is built specifically for this search. It surfaces Data Strategy Lead roles at employers with verified green card sponsorship history, so you can filter out companies that have never filed a PERM application. Targeting employers with an established immigration track record significantly reduces the risk that sponsorship falls apart after you accept an offer.
Can I switch employers during the green card process without losing my place in line?
You can port your priority date to a new employer's sponsorship once your I-140 has been approved and your I-485 adjustment of status has been pending for at least 180 days. The new role must be in the same or a similar occupational classification. For Data Strategy Lead candidates, moving between companies in the same data or technology management track generally satisfies this portability requirement under AC21 provisions.
What does the PERM labor certification process actually involve for this job title?
Your employer must conduct a DOL-supervised recruitment campaign to demonstrate that no qualified U.S. worker was available for the role before filing your PERM application. For a Data Strategy Lead, this typically includes job postings, internal notices, and documentation of every applicant considered. USCIS then reviews the approved PERM as part of your I-140 petition. The employer bears legal responsibility for the recruitment documentation, but you should confirm they are working with experienced immigration counsel.
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