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Wellington Management · 1 month ago

Quantitative Developer, IDEA Team

Boston, MA, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$90K/yr - $180K/yr

3+ years exp

Wellington Management is a leading investment management firm that provides tailored solutions for institutional clients. They are seeking a Quantitative Developer to design, build, and extend their central research data platform, primarily using Python and modern cloud data technologies.

AdviceAsset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesInsurance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement robust data models for securities, issuers, fundamentals, time series, and analytics across multiple asset classes (e.g., equity, fixed income, macro)

Develop and maintain Python-based libraries and services that provide consistent, well-documented access to research data and analytics

Partner with data engineering to ensure upstream data and pipelines support analytics needs

Collaborate with investors and quantitative researchers to understand their workflows and translate requirements into scalable data and tooling solutions

Contribute to the rationalization of data vendors and the convergence of legacy data stores into a cohesive, central platform capability

Implement and enhance data and analytics quality controls, monitoring, and documentation to promote trust in both the data and the analytics built on top of it

Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and standards-setting to ensure high engineering quality and reusability across the platform

Proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, usability, and reliability of the platform, and drive initiatives from concept through to adoption

Qualification

PythonData modelingSQLSoftware engineering fundamentalsInvestment data knowledgeCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Strong hands-on experience with Python for data-intensive applications, including use of common libraries (e.g., pandas, polars, numpy) and building testable, maintainable, production-quality code

Solid understanding of data modeling concepts, particularly for time-series and reference data (e.g. slowly changing dimensions, point-in-time and bi-temporal data)

Proficiency with SQL and experience working with large datasets in modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, cloud data warehouses, data lakes) and open-source formats such as parquet

Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control (git), code reviews, unit/integration testing, logging, and documentation

Working knowledge of investment data, including: Security master and symbology (e.g., issuer vs. security identifiers, vendor symbologies)

Fundamental data (e.g., financial statements, estimates), pricing and returns, benchmarks, and basic risk/portfolio concepts

Familiarity with the practical use of data in investment workflows such as screening, backtesting, portfolio analysis, factor, and performance / attribution concepts

3-7 years of professional experience as a quantitative developer, quantitative analyst, or research platform/analytics engineer in asset management, a hedge fund, or a similarly data-driven financial environment

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent professional experience

Benefits

Discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives

Retirement plan

Health and wellbeing

Dental

Vision

Pharmacy coverage

Health savings account

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter program

Employee assistance program

Life and disability insurance

Adoption assistance

Back-up childcare

Tuition/CFA reimbursement

Paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)

Company

Wellington Management

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Wellington Management focuses on investment management by applying its resources to meet the needs of the institutional clients it serves.

Founded in 1933

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://wellington.com

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