Senior Quantitative Developer, Fixed Income Trading Systems

TIAAChicago, IL
$128,000 - $174,000Onsite

About The Position

Nuveen is looking for a Senior Quantitative Developer, Fixed Income Trading Systems to join our fixed income team, where you will play a central role in designing and building proprietary pricing models that enhance our trading and investment capabilities. This is a hands-on role that sits at the intersection of quantitative research, software engineering, and market expertise, with a primary focus on fixed income securities and municipal bonds. The Senior Quantitative Developer will serve as a trusted technical partner to traders and research professionals, translating complex analytical concepts into practical, production-ready solutions while providing technical leadership to other developers and analysts.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience working as a Quantitative Developer or in a similar quantitative technology role within financial services.
  • Designed and implemented quantitative models and production-grade software within financial services environments.
  • Applied regression modeling, ensemble methods, or time series analysis to real financial data using statistics and machine learning techniques.
  • Built and deployed production-grade software in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Developed solutions using Python and SQL with hands-on experience in data engineering practices.

Nice To Haves

  • Applied quantitative or analytical skills within municipal bond markets.
  • Integrated software systems with trading platforms, order management systems, or vendor data providers such as Bloomberg or ICE.
  • Collaborated across technical and business functions to deliver analytical or technology solutions
  • Communicated technical and analytical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a collaborative environment.
  • Engaged with trading professionals on fixed income concepts and collaborated with development teams on software architecture decisions.
  • Developed and maintained solutions using C++ and R

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop statistical and quantitative models from conception through production deployment with a focus on fixed income securities, particularly municipal bonds.
  • Build and maintain the software infrastructure surrounding quantitative models to support trading and investment capabilities.
  • Construct proprietary pricing models, primarily expressed as spread adjustments to vendor benchmark values, informed by insights from traders and research professionals.
  • Integrate data from trading systems, market offerings, security descriptive datasets, internal research, and third-party vendor pricing feeds.
  • Collaborate daily with trading and research teams, serving as a trusted technical partner who translates complex analytical concepts into practical, production-ready solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership to other developers and analysts to raise the overall capability of the team.

Benefits

  • superior retirement program
  • highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings
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