Principal Quant Developer
skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Jersey City • New Jersey, Rhode Island • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $107,000 - $216,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
LinuxPythonSQL
About the role
- blend investment management and technical expertise with a passion for delivering results
- be ‘embedded’ within the quantitative research team and partner with the investment teams on various projects including portfolio construction, risk management, and alpha research
- contribute to build high quality, robust, and efficient analytical solutions that will help in defining risk for the alternative investment processes
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or above) in a quantitative or computational field such as Statistics, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
- 6 + years of experience in analytical models and working with investment professionals
- Domain knowledge in either equities, fixed income or alternative asset classes
- Deep understanding of quantitative techniques and methods, statistics and econometrics – including probability, linear regression and time series data analysis
- Proven track record in hands-on development of analytical solutions
- Full-stack software development knowledge
- Technical and programming skills including Python, SQL and Linux
- Ability to effectively communicate with multiple stakeholders, including fundamental and quantitative researchers, technology partners and senior management
- Intelligently apply advanced analytics and quantitative concepts to support investment needs and develop new solutions
- Lead the implementation of a research project through the entire software development lifecycle utilizing a full-stack implementation
- Add scale, rigor, and repeatability to research through software development best practices
- Assist Research teams in developing new models and products that will provide an advantage to the organization in the marketplace
- Adept at detecting scope changes and escalating issues
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
- market-leading retirement
- generous paid time off and parental leave
- charitable giving employee match program
- educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
analytical modelsquantitative techniquesstatisticseconometricsprobabilitylinear regressiontime series data analysisfull-stack software developmentPythonSQL
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementleadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptabilityproject managementanalytical thinkingattention to detailcritical thinking