Wells Fargo is seeking a Quantitative Software Engineer, Executive Director (Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist). The front office financial software engineer will be involved in the implementation of various financial models, including interest rate, mortgage prepayment and default, derivative valuation, hedging, and horizon forecast models. A core focus of the role is on software engineering and DevOps best practices to enhance and streamline the library development and release cycle and CI/CD workflow, optimizing the translation of business and mathematical logic into performant, modular, and appropriately abstracted code. SDLC automation is also a focus, e.g. build system, testing, and release.
The Wells Fargo Investment Portfolio (IP) manages the Company's Available-For-Sale (AFS) and Held-To-Maturity (HTM) securities and loan portfolios, and the Reinsurance and Bank Owned Life Insurance (BOLI) businesses as part of the Finance group. IP also provides strategic and analytical balance sheet support to the bank, as well as a centralized, street-facing trade execution and hedging function and centralized mortgage modeling for the enterprise.
In this role you will:- Implement and enhance the firm's proprietary analytics library in C++.
- Generate, test, implement, and deploy ideas to improve system performance or team productivity.
- Improve the library's safety, reliability, and usability.
- Work constructively in collaboration with business, model development, model validation, and IT.
Required Qualifications:- 7+ years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
Desired Qualifications:- Master's degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, physics, economics, or computer science
- 2+ years hands on programming experience, C++17 and Python 3
- 4+ years of buy-or sell-side quantitative analytics library software development experience
- 4+years of DevOps concepts, specifically in CI/CD
- Experience with CMake (e.g. scripting find modules, CTest, CMake presets)
- Experience in software development cycle and agile technologies, e.g. Git, Jira, Confluence
- Experience with asynchronous event driven or reactive programming architectures
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Job Expectations:- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- This position is eligible for Visa sponsorship
- Must be able to work on-site
Pay RangeReflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to achievements, skills, experience, or work location. The range listed is just one component of the compensation package offered to candidates.
$173,300.00 - $359,900.00
Benefits Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.
- Health benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Paid time off
- Disability benefits
- Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
- Parental leave
- Critical caregiving leave
- Discounts and savings
- Commuter benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Scholarships for dependent children
- Adoption reimbursement
Posting End Date:20 Mar 2025
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