PGIM

Lead, Quant Engineer

PGIM
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7 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop platform capabilities, services, and tooling using Python.
  • Build and support data platforms, quantitative libraries, distributed computing infrastructure, and shared services for quantitative researchers and investment teams.
  • Partner with quantitative researchers, technology teams, data specialists, and investment teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
  • Contribute to architecture, code reviews, testing, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
  • Drive continuous improvement through automation, innovation, and software engineering best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science.
  • Significant experience building and delivering enterprise-scale software, analytics, and data platforms.
  • Deep expertise in Python software development.
  • Significant experience in data engineering, distributed computing, and large-scale data processing.
  • Experience building quantitative analytics, risk management, portfolio management, investment research, or quantitative platforms.
  • Experience partnering with quantitative researchers, investment teams, and technology organizations.
  • Understanding of fixed income, credit, asset management, or broader financial markets.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience with Ray, Dask, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Kafka, RabbitMQ, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, monorepos, automated testing, and Python developer tooling.

Benefits

  • Private medical insurance with the full premium paid by PGIM.
  • 25 to 28 days of annual leave at full pay, based on years of service.
  • Retirement Savings Plan with a 10% company contribution and up to a 5% employer-matching contribution of basic annual salary.
  • Life Assurance of eight times basic annual salary, up to a maximum benefit of £1.8 million.
  • Income protection providing 60% of basic annual salary for a limited payment term of five years, followed by a capital sum of twice basic annual salary.
  • London-based hybrid work arrangement.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About PGIM

5,001-10,000 employees

PGIM builds and sells investment management products and services to institutional and individual investors worldwide. It is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU), headquartered in Newark, NJ, with roughly $1.4 trillion in assets under management. Its multi-affiliate platform spans fixed income, equities, real estate, private credit, and alternatives delivered via separate accounts, mutual funds, ETFs, and private funds.

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