Senior Quantitative Engineer
Northern Trust4 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Work with business and research teams to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and develop quantitative models.
- Design, develop, innovate, and improve proprietary models and algorithms for equity and fixed-income research and trade generation.
- Convert Excel-based models to the latest technology stack while generating required signals.
- Improve application stability, scalability, resiliency, reliability, and user experience.
- Lead developers in transitioning mature prototype tools, applications, reports, and data structures into production.
- Implement standards, processes, and tools for numerical-library testing and code-quality controls.
- Review complex model and algorithm implementations for requirements verification and code quality.
- Conduct peer code reviews and incorporate feedback from model developers and other engineers.
- Communicate project status to development teams and management and provide technical guidance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology.
- 12+ years of progressive experience in software engineering and quantitative analysis.
- Strong analytical skills and experience working with large datasets using libraries such as PySpark, Pandas, Polars, and Cuml.
- Expertise in multiple programming languages, including Python, PySpark, R, and Java; Python and PySpark expertise is required.
- Working knowledge of a relevant big-data cloud-computation platform such as Databricks.
- Strong quantitative research, statistics, risk, and equity portfolio-management knowledge.
- Understanding of tradable financial instruments, derivatives, capital markets, time-series analysis, asset pricing theory, algorithms, and data structures.
- Understanding of machine-learning algorithms for building signals from available datasets.
- Strong Test-Driven Development experience and commitment to simple, adaptive, iterative code.
- Preferred experience in front-office software development within asset management, hedge funds, or investment banks.
- Preferred experience building containerized applications and deploying them to public or private clouds such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
- Preferred experience with web-based development and visualization technology for large and complex datasets.
Benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with organizational mobility and accessible senior leaders.
- Inclusive workplace and opportunities to support communities through the company's philanthropy programs.
- Bangalore office amenities including the Arrival Hub - Jungle, GameZone, and Employee Experience Zone.
- Reasonable accommodation is available during the employment process.
About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.