Job Application for Senior Technical Risk Analyst at Bridgewater Associates

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About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy. In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage. Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought – this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it’s how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships – the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.  

About the Security Department

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape. This role sits on the Technical Risk Analysis team, which is responsible for assessing new technologies and other potentially risky changes to Bridgewater’s security posture to ensure such risks are well-controlled, documented, and monitored through time.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Technical Risk Analyst to join our Technology Risk Analysis team. In this role, you will be the senior-most individual contributor on the security team responsible for assessing new technologies, both bought and built, for the company against our security standards and control patterns. In addition, you will be responsible for improving and scaling the company’s controls assurance program, used to identify the effectiveness of the security controls deployed across our technology environment.

As our Senior Technical Risk Analyst, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that technology adoption across the firm aligns with our risk tolerance and security requirements. You will leverage your technical expertise to evaluate complex systems, identify potential controls gaps, propose pragmatic risk mitigation strategies, and communicate these well to decision-makers in security, technology, and other business units.

You will be a click for the role if you:

You have 5+ years of experience in cloud security, application security, technology risk management, information security, or a related field.

You possess strong technical knowledge of cloud platforms, modern application security principles, and emerging architectures used by AIML platforms.

You understand security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF) and can apply them pragmatically to business contexts.

You have experience conducting vendor security assessments and third-party risk management, such as parsing value out of a SOC-2 report.

You excel at communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You demonstrate strong analytical abilities and can identify patterns and interdependencies in complex systems.

You are proactive, detail-oriented, and can manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
You are collaborative and able to influence stakeholders without direct authority.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

Lead technical risk assessments of new technologies, such as SaaS and AIML solutions, determining alignment with the firm's security control standards.

Develop risk syntheses that communicate key risk points to other security professionals, technologists, and executive stakeholders that reduce practical security risk and enable informed risk decisions.

Mentor and provide technical guidance to more junior risk analysts on the team.

Improve the design, lead the implementation, and oversee with other members of the Technical Risk Analysis team, the firm's controls assurance program.

Collaborate with other security professionals and technologists to refine or build standardized methodologies for technology risk evaluation, documentation, and the systemized collection of security risk data.

Stay current with emerging technology risks, especially in the AIML space, and industry best practices to mitigate such risks.

We are looking for candidates with the following minimum qualifications: 

5+ years of experience in cloud security, application security, technology risk management, information security, or a related field.

Proven track record of building secure web applications and cloud technologies, designing technologies architectures, and/or assessing such technologies for vulnerabilities.

Knowledge of commonly used security frameworks and standards and work experience in applying them in practical use cases.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred experience:

College degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.

Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
Proven track record implementing and/or using controls assurance platforms.

Physical Requirements:

This role is offered as fully remote within the United States.  Occasional travel may be required throughout the year (should not exceed 1x per quarter).

Compensation:

The wage range for this role is $200,000 - $300,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80-90% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits.

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Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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