Senior Python Quant Developer - Buy Side - 12-month initial contract
Contract, Casual/Temporary
This Senior Quant Developer applies financial technology to the development of investment solutions, which continue to enhance the efficient management of a large global portfolio. This role sits in a high-performing team that plays a central role in materially upgrading investment data and analytics capability. It will combine strong theoretical and practical understanding of investment management across a range of asset classes with strong communication/consultation skills, to discern which solutions (analytics, systems and processes) are most fit-for-purpose for our Investment Teams.
This will be hired on an initial 12-month contract with view to go permanent.
Responsibilities of the role include:
1. Work closely with investment teams to understand their needs from a data and analytics perspective, then translate the requirements into discrete units of work.
2. Contribute to the design and development of the team’s technological tools which support the development of business solutions.
3. Develop a deep understanding of the workflow, investment process, and key challenges within investment teams, to enable more meaningful and context-driven collaboration.
A successful candidate will:
1. Be degree qualified in a numerical field.
2. Have strong interpersonal, communication and consultation skills with the ability to build relationships with stakeholders.
3. Be a highly quantitative individual with demonstrated development experience.
4. Have senior level Python development experience particularly with a deep understanding of common scientific libraries, in an investment management context.
5. Have experience with commonly used 3rd party financial software vendors.
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