Senior Quantitative Developer, Fixed Income Trading Systems
About The Position
Nuveen is seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer, Fixed Income Trading Systems to join their fixed income team. This role is crucial for designing and building proprietary pricing models to enhance trading and investment capabilities. It's a hands-on position at the intersection of quantitative research, software engineering, and market expertise, with a specific focus on fixed income securities and municipal bonds. The developer will act as a technical partner to traders and research professionals, translating complex analytical concepts into practical, production-ready solutions and providing technical leadership to other team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree Required
- 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
- 7+ Years Preferred
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
