Senior Quantitative Engineer – Global Risk Analytics
A senior engineering role designing reusable software and big-data components for the bank's risk models and testing. You work with modellers, risk managers and technologists and also guide less experienced engineers.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Design reusable data quality and testing components for risk analytics
- Build large-scale data pipelines for model and test inputs
- Mentor junior engineers on code quality
- Work with risk and technology stakeholders on future-state designs
- Document models and tests for internal and regulatory review
What they ask for
Required
- 7+ years of software engineering
- Python and software lifecycle practice
- Distributed computing and big data
- Basic modelling techniques
- Stakeholder communication to senior audiences
- Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent experience
Preferred
- Building user-facing applications with React, Angular or JavaScript
- Process automation
- Education
- Bachelor's in computer science or a closely related field, or equivalent work experience
- Experience
- 7+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Build a distributed dataframe pipeline with data quality checks over a large dataset
- Practise modular design with unit and regression tests
- Learn how financial data schemas and lineage are managed in risk systems
- Write a short design document for a reusable testing framework
What to study
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Professional Quant Practice
- Quantitative Risk Management
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