Quantitative Engineer

Invesco • Atlanta, GA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

About the Team: To build solutions that better automate tasks within the Investment Risk organization. The Investment Risk team operates independently to provide objective oversight to senior executives, to portfolio management teams, and to external parties such as Fund boards. Investment Risk identifies, measures, and manages a wide array of investment-related risks across all portfolios using advanced analytics and qualitative methods. Investment Risk focuses on portfolio construction to raise awareness of unintended risks that may detract from strategy objectives. About the Role: This Quantitative Engineer role sits within the Strategy & Execution team, which serves an important function within the Investment Risk group. Strategy & Execution drives change management, manages projects with enterprise leaders, and builds software to help strengthen the impact of the Investment Risk team. This role will help redefine the standard of automated solutions used to support the team’s mission, ensuring seamless risk monitoring and alignment with organizational frameworks and objectives.

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative subject such as Statistics, Economics, Financial Engineering, Computer Science
• Experience with AI and scripting applications used to enhance efficiency
• Experience as a team player helping to contribute to technology project deliverables
• Experience working in cloud-based environments such as AWS is a plus
• Experience in applying machine learning techniques is a plus
• Intermediate coding skills with extensive hands-on experience in R, Python, SQL or other languages used to engineer large datasets
• Good understanding of financial instruments and a familiarity with international financial markets (e.g.- ., Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives)
• Fundamental understanding of core machine learning concepts is preferred
• Effectively operate within a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships across all levels of an organization and to drive stakeholder consensus
• Intellectually curious with attention to detail
• Superior problem-solving capability
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to operate autonomously and independently
• Comfort working at the intersection of business, data, and technology, translating needs into practical solutions
• Ability to communicate process and automation concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Good time management and able to work under occasional time- pressure
• Comfortable working within a project management team and managing multiple concurrent deliverables

Nice To Haves

• CFA, FRM/PRM and/or MBA (Finance) are desirable
• Not mandatory, but it would be helpful to have previous experience with vendor software commonly used in asset management: Barra, RiskMetrics, FactSet, Charles River, Aladdin, Bloomberg, Morningstar, Macrobond, Compustat, Worldscope, DataStream

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees