Role Overview

The Security Technical Program Manager (TPM) will be responsible for the definition, execution, and oversight of critical security programs focused on client assurance, operational compliance, and platform security. This role requires a strong focus on program management and cross-functional coordination to embed security and legal standardization across client projects and manage ongoing compliance activities. The ideal candidate will drive the standardization of legal verbiage and security practices across the organization's client-facing work, ensuring predictable execution, reduced risk, and consistent security standards for client codebases. This role partners closely with Security, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Client teams.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio & Program Management

• Own the portfolio view of Tech Platforms within the broader security strategy.
• Structure and manage strategic programs required to deliver roadmap objectives
• Define milestones, delivery plans, and success metrics for major initiatives.
• Track progress against portfolio commitments and escalate risks proactively.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies across Engineering, Product Management, Legal, and other stakeholders.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, including investment
• Ensure predictable execution through structured governance and reporting cadence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, Legal, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment, trade-off decisions (e.g., security vs. speed), and expectation management.
• Influence without direct authority to drive secure design principles and manage cross-functional projects to ensure delivery.

Client Project Standardization:

• Lead the strategic initiative to standardize legal verbiage and security requirements across client projects.
• Client Code Security: Drive implementation of consistent security standardization to secure client codes and ensure ongoing maintenance and protection of the codebase.
• Own the coordination of security deployment approvals for client projects with clients, engineering and security teams

Operational Security & Compliance

• Coordinate PCI compliance efforts by creating required reports and managing activities for all PCI accounts.Manage the coordination of the yearly PCI/ISO Audit for all accounts within the Tech Platform.Conduct quarterly User Access Reviews (UAR) to certify user access for AWSGenerate and report artifacts for 1LOD, 2LOD, 3LOD for corrective action plan and risk reduction plans

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, cybersecurity, or risk management
• Demonstrated experience in Product Security (AppSec), DevSecOps, or AI/ML Security domains.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing strategic roadmaps tied to measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of security compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI, ISO) and operational security domains (e.g., User Access Reviews, AWS security roles, Secure SDLC/SAST)
• Strong understanding of secure development practices, vulnerability management, and common software security frameworks.
• Proven ability to partner with engineering and legal teams to drive standardization and manage security due diligence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated experience facilitating stakeholder alignment and influencing without direct authority
• Experience working in matrixed organizations and managing dependencies across multiple business units.

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: We are seeking a Platform Reliability Engineer to join a highly specialized team of exceptionally talented yet refreshingly humble individuals from diverse disciplines. We believe that delivering exceptional services requires the ability to make meaningful changes across the entire stack. Our mission is to solve real business challenges, reduce operational complexities, and foster a collaborative, team-driven environment that promotes mutual growth and success.

As a Platform Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing the operational  aspects of the server and network infrastructure for a large financial buy-side organization. Your primary focus will be on reducing operational overhead, optimizing systems, managing configurations, and ensuring the reliability and performance of critical infrastructure

What You'll Do:

• Ensure the production reliability of the firm’s Linux-based platform as part of a globally distributed engineering team.
• Provide rapid emergency response to production infrastructure issues.
• Proactively understand internal clients’ needs and effectively communicate them to leadership at both regional and global levels.
• Identify risks, develop contingency plans, and implement solutions to mitigate them.
• Develop and enhance the observability platform to monitor the performance and health of critical computing environments.
• Participate in occasional (monthly) on-call rotations and support on-call staff during their shifts
• Contribute to organizational knowledge through documentation, education, and writing maintainable code.

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or other infrastructure engineering roles, preferably within the financial industry.
• Strong understanding of Linux system internals, including kernel operations, memory management, and performance optimization.
• In-depth knowledge of storage technologies, particularly those used in high-performance computing (GPFS experience is a plus).
• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure components, such as networking, DNS, NTP/PTP, and NIS.
• Proficiency in system automation, monitoring, and self-healing (experience with Salt is a plus).
• Experience with container orchestration and virtualization technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Nomad, VMware).
• Familiarity with on-premises and cloud-based HPC infrastructure (operational knowledge of Slurm and GPU is a plus).
• Understanding of AI technologies and their applications in infrastructure automation and management. Experience with or a strong interest in implementing AI/ML solutions for infrastructure optimization, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics.
• A passion for technology and automation, with a deep sense of curiosity and ownership.
• A hands-on approach to problem-solving and a demonstrable enthusiasm for technology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package. 
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance. 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, guest speakers, share and learn events, etc.
• Regular team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams.
• Dynamic work without routine in a leading international company.

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Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role We are seeking an exceptional senior-level Python engineer to join a small team working on complex data pipelines, AI/ML systems, and cutting-edge software solutions. This role will be responsible for managing technical objectives, providing technical leadership, and maintaining a hands-on approach to development. The ideal candidate will work closely across teams within WorldQuant as part of our business-facing technology organization.
A successful candidate will possess deep expertise in Python development, data engineering, software architecture, and design principles. They should be able to mentor junior team members, conduct code reviews, and drive architectural decisions. Experience with deployment of AI systems and large language models (LLMs) is not required but a plus.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field from a top-tier institution. 
• 5+ years of experience as a Python developer, with a strong focus on data engineering and AI/ML systems.
• Expert-level knowledge of Python and its ecosystem.
• Proficiency in designing and implementing scalable, maintainable, and efficient data pipelines. 
• Expertise in version control systems (Git), CI/CD practices, and agile methodologies. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Proven track record of mentoring junior engineers and fostering a collaborative team environment. 
• Experience in the finance industry is a plus but not required. 
• Experience MLOps, LLM, agents or systems of agents is a significant plus.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package .
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance.
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, guest speakers, share and learn events, etc.
• Regular team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams.
• Dynamic work without routine in a leading international company.

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