Arch Capital Group Ltd.

Senior Quant Engineer

Arch Capital Group Ltd.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New JerseyNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $234,090 - $316,710 per year

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Design and build front-office quantitative tools and infrastructure supporting portfolio managers, traders, and alternative asset managers across fixed income and credit strategies
  • Develop and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines integrating data from major financial vendors (ICE, Bloomberg, FactSet, Kamakura, LSEG, and others)
  • Build and enhance portfolio analytics, optimization frameworks, and simulation environments for portfolio construction, risk analysis, and strategy implementation
  • Design and implement daily trading order generation and portfolio management workflows, integrating quantitative tools with front-office systems to streamline the investment process
  • Partner with portfolio managers and traders to translate investment workflows and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Develop backend services and API interfaces for the AIMI internal investment platform, enabling seamless interaction between analytics systems and front-office applications
  • Build scalable, maintainable Python-based analytics libraries and services following software engineering and quantitative development best practices
  • Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all datasets used for portfolio construction, risk analysis, and trading decisions
  • Collaborate with quant researchers, risk, IT, and operations teams to deliver robust and scalable quantitative infrastructure across the investment platform
  • Contribute to building a best-in-class, data-driven investment technology platform supporting both fixed income and alternative strategies
  • Support the production environment of quantitative tools used by the investment team, ensuring reliability, transparency, and operational efficiency

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in quantitative engineering, financial engineering, or front-office technology within asset management, hedge funds, financial institutions or other similarly data-driven entity
  • Strong hands-on Python programming skills, including production-quality analytics and data processing frameworks
  • Experience working with financial market data vendors such as Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet, Kamakura, LSEG, or similar large financial datasets
  • Deep experience in data ingestion, normalization, and large-scale data processing, preferably in financial markets environments
  • Solid understanding of fixed income and credit markets, including bonds, credit risk metrics, and portfolio analytics preferred
  • Experience designing and implementing portfolio optimization or simulation frameworks preferred
  • Track record building front-office quantitative tools used by portfolio managers or traders
  • Familiarity with REST APIs and backend service development for internal applications and analytics platforms
  • Proven ability to collaborate with quant researchers, portfolio managers, risk teams, and technology groups in complex data-rich environments
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and engineering skills with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Excellent communication skills — able to convey complex quantitative and technical concepts to investment professionals
  • Strong team player comfortable working across investment, research, and technology teams in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
  • multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
  • a competitive 401k with generous matching
  • PTO beginning at 20 days per year
  • up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer
  • basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks
  • Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
  • Backup Child and Elder Care
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Python programmingdata ingestiondata processing frameworksportfolio optimizationsimulation frameworksquantitative engineeringfinancial engineeringbackend service developmentREST APIsdata normalization
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscollaborationcommunication skillsteam playerability to translate business requirementsinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsadaptabilityattention to detail