Company Description:
As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals, and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients’ most valued asset-management partner.
Group Description:
We are seeking a Pune-based developer to join the Multi-Asset Technology team to provide technology solutions for our buy-side Multi-Asset Solutions investment unit. The job will focus on building tools to support the Research and Systematic investment process for a combination of quantitative and fundamental research analysts and portfolio managers.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Participate in support and development of multi-asset strategies involving portfolio optimization, monitoring, trade building and trade routing
- Developing robust quality control processing, monitoring and workflow tools
- Automation of existing manual processes
- Provide support for overnight batch jobs
What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?
The candidate will have an opportunity to work alongside an established team of developers and investment teams in supporting next generation systematic strategies.
Qualifications, Experience, Education:
This position requires:
- A desire to grow their knowledge about the investment implementation lifecycle and various markets including equities, credit, rates, fx and volatility.
- A desire to learn about modern software development using a CI/CD deployment methodology using Python, Azure, Kubernetes, SQL, etc
- Must demonstrate good communication and strong analytical skills
- Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects covering - analysis, technical design, implementation, testing, and deployment tasks
Experience and Education Required:
- Degree in Computer Science/Engineering
- 3+ years’ experience in application development using Python
- 2+ years’ experience programming SQL queries and stored procedures (Microsoft SQL Server)
- 2+ years’ experience supporting quantitative research
- Must be proficient with object oriented design principles
- Advanced Excel programming experience a strong plus
- Development experience in MATLAB a plus
Special Knowledge (if applicable):
- Experience with Git/GitHub
- Familiarity with Dash for build web based dashboards, reports and user interfaces
- Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg
- Experience with PnL and performance attribution reporting
- Experience working in the finance industry, demonstrable curiosity in quantitative research and investment
Location: Pune, India
Pune, India
