Senior Technical Risk Analyst

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. 

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here. 

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. 

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