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SENIOR QUANT DEVELOPER

  1. London
  2. Full-time
  3. Solutions Group

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Company Description

The world of investment is changing. Our vision at Legal & General Investment Management is to create a better, more sustainable future through responsible investing. We work in partnership with our clients around the globe to deliver positive long-term outcomes, while rising to the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. To meet our clients’ complex and evolving investment needs, our investment strategies cover a broad array of asset classes and styles, including equities, bonds, property and alternatives, as well as multi-asset funds. We’re focused on continuously innovating our investment products, maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes, and striving to build a more responsible and sustainable future.


Job Description

You will join the central financial engineering function with-in LGIM Investments that undertakes key projects and has an enablement function to transform the way financial engineering is undertaken, a key driver for product innovation

The role is to be part of a sub-team within Investments that works exclusively with Solutions department to evolve one of the key enterprise portfolio management applications, managing assets across multi-asset classes. It’s an exciting opportunity to evolve existing codebase and build next generation of cloud-based quantitative components underpinning a platform managing half trillion £ of assets

  • Building/evolving next generation quantitative model libraries and components for pricing and risk analytics, curve functionality, and other developments within a portfolio management system
  • Deliver business change requests/queries and assist with model validation within a quantitative development team
  • Business integration tests where we are evolving the current integration test suites into next generation tests and integrating into the CI platforms.
  • Be an effective analyst developer in a small agile team in developing understanding and reassessing application features that have evolved over time to deliver new requirements

Qualifications

  • Experience building financial applications with C# (and/or C++/Java) using best practices. Python experience is desirable
  • Understanding of financial instruments and pricing models. Fixed income/interest rates/inflation exposure/FX knowledge
  • Unit and integration test framework experience for large quantitative libraries and front office development platforms using C# and Python test frameworks
  • Experience using databases, query language and data modelling – SQL is desirable
  • Understanding of successful design, implementation, and on-going management of microservices architecture and API interfaces
  • Ability to work with diverse stakeholders across functions like business, IT and Operations.
  • Ambitious team player with intellectual honesty and ability to build consensus where needed
  • Management and training of more junior team members

 


Additional Information

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

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