Full-Time

Vice President Risk Technology

Vichara

Vichara

201-500 employees

Asset management analytics and risk systems

Compensation Overview

$200k - $220k/yr

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Bachelor's, Master's

Category
Data & Analytics (1)
Required Skills
Microsoft Azure
Python
SQL
ETL
Data Engineering
Data Analysis
Snowflake

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Requirements
  • At least 5 years of hands-on technology experience supporting Market Risk, Credit Risk, or trading/risk data environments.
  • Strong SQL skills, including Snowflake, SQL Server, or equivalent, for analytics, modeling, and performance optimization.
  • Python experience for data processing, analytics, and automation.
  • Experience integrating market data, pricing data, and risk factor inputs into analytical or reporting systems.
  • Hands-on experience building or supporting ETL pipelines, reconciliations, data validation checks, and reporting workflows.
  • Familiarity with risk metrics such as DV01, stress testing, scenario analysis, and credit exposure concepts.
  • Ability to communicate and partner with Risk Management, Front Office, and engineering teams.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.
Responsibilities
  • Serve as the senior technical partner to Market Risk and Credit Risk teams, focusing on data and platform solutions.
  • Perform hands-on development in SQL and Python to support risk data pipelines, analytics, reconciliations, and reporting workflows.
  • Support daily, weekly, and monthly risk reporting cycles, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery.
  • Validate and troubleshoot risk reporting issues using market data, pricing inputs, and risk factor mappings.
  • Collaborate with onshore and offshore teams to enhance data quality, lineage, and reporting controls.
  • Drive improvements in automation, data validation, transparency, and modernization of risk processes.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with risk platforms, pricing engines, or market data systems.
  • Familiarity with structured credit or whole loan analytics.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as Azure or Snowflake.
  • Understanding of credit and market risk regulatory frameworks.
  • Strong curiosity and willingness to dive deeply into data, calculation methodologies, and risk processes.

Vichara provides software and services to large asset managers, investment banks, and wealth managers to value assets, manage risk, and run complex portfolios in areas like corporate credit, structured products, and real estate. It offers two main offerings: Solutions that support portfolio management, risk, and operations, and Technology Services that help firms design, build, integrate, and optimize their systems. Unlike firms that focus only on either software or consulting, Vichara combines domain-specific software with technology services to tailor and implement end-to-end workflows for large institutions. The goal is to help clients value assets accurately, control risk, and run multifaceted portfolios efficiently.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2001

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Vichara opened a Toronto office in 2025, extending client coverage into Canada.
  • The 2026 website emphasizes asset managers and banks needing complex portfolio intelligence.
  • Markit integration history strengthens credibility with CLO managers and leveraged-loan investors.

What critics are saying

  • Vichara’s website shows no major 2025-2026 funding, making growth self-financed and fragile.
  • The company remains niche in structured credit; a slowdown in CLO issuance hurts revenues fast.
  • Salesforce consultancy and adjacent services signal commoditization pressure from larger fintech vendors.

What makes Vichara unique

  • Vichara’s vCLO centralizes CLO analytics, waterfalls, surveillance, and tranche valuation.
  • The firm spans residential credit, corporate credit, private credit, and ABF workflows.
  • Its platform integrates Intex, Markit, Moody’s, dealer emails, and internal assumptions.

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