The Role

Fidelity’s Asset Management Technology Division is seeking a Director of Quant Development to join their Embedded Quant Development Team supporting High Yield Asset class. This is a core software engineering role in our dynamic and fast-paced quantitative development team. You will be ‘embedded’ within the quantitative research team and you will partner with the investment teams on various projects including portfolio construction, risk management, and alpha research. You will build high quality, robust, and efficient analytical solutions that will be used to improve High Income investment processes. This role impacts the organization by improving the quality and time-to-market of Research initiatives through a combination of both analytical and software development skillsets. The assignments will include gathering the ideas, conceptualizing them through a programming language, and creating a packaged solution that can be used by the investment professionals.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• Bachelor’s (Masters preferred) in a quantitative or computational field such as Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in a quantitative/computational environment supporting investment management preferably with High Income / Fixed Income asset class securities
• 5+ years of experience in designing and developing methods and solutions related to High / Fixed Income analytics, risk & pricing models
• Full-stack software development knowledge and critical thinking skills to design optimal solutions for computing fixed income security level analytics
• Strong software engineering skills, including C++, Python, shell scripting, SQL, and Linux preferably in a command line environment
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders, including fundamental and quantitative researchers and technology partners