Director, Quant Development
About The Position
The Director Quant Engineering will join the Quantitative Research & Investments Technology (QRIT) team in Fidelity Asset Management Technology. This role involves partnering with quant research and investments teams to design, build, enhance, and support a comprehensive Systematic Fixed Income research and portfolio construction ecosystem. The individual will engage in hands-on development, collaborating with a team of software engineers and quantitative developers. The Asset Management Technology (AMT) organization provides worldwide technology and support to all Investment Management, Research, Trading, and Investment Operations functions. This Director, Quant Software Engineer position is part of the Quantitative Engineering team, responsible for delivering and maintaining solutions for the Quant Research team.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a computational field such as Computer Science
- Minimum of 7 years of proven professional experience working in financial services
- Proven experience engaging with senior internal and external clients and partners
- Experience with Python and micro-services / RESTful APIs
- Experience working on AWS cloud environment and working knowledge of CI/CD & DevOps
- Strong experience in system architecture, design patterns and software engineering fundamentals such as OOP, functional programming, data modeling
- Advanced understanding of data structures
- Proven ability to capture requirements and formulate plans by partnering with various stakeholders
- Strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills to influence decisions and engage across Fidelity and at all levels of the organization
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree is preferred
- Asset Management experienced preferred
- Experience integrating data services with Excel or other UI like angular is a plus
- Prior quant dev experience with Fixed Income asset class is a plus
- Demonstrated experience with portfolio construction and/or portfolio optimization is a plus
Responsibilities
- Partner with the quant research and investments teams to design, build, enhance, and support a comprehensive Systematic Fixed Income research and portfolio construction ecosystem
- Include hands on development collaborating with team of software engineers and quantitative developers
- Delivering & maintaining solutions for Quant Research team
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage
- emotional well-being support
- market-leading retirement
- generous paid time off
- parental leave
- charitable giving employee match program
- educational assistance including student loan repayment
- tuition reimbursement
- learning resources to develop your career
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
