Quantitative Developer/Analyst
Security Benefit (SB) seeks a Quantitative Developer/Analyst to work in the Derivatives Team within its Investments Department in Topeka, Kansas. SB fosters strong partnerships to provide insightful and customized retirement solutions for employers and individual investors nationwide. Through a broad advisor network and its nationally recognized money managers, SB provides mutual funds, annuities and retirement plans and programs. As an industry leader in service technology, SB affiliates also offer business processing and broker/dealer solutions tailored to the financial services marketplace.
General Accountabilities:
The position is responsible for design, development, testing, and maintenance of software systems, databases, application integrations and valuation models across the derivatives and Investments portfolios. The position will work with derivatives trading, operations teams and collaborate with internal IT teams, technology/software vendors for system implementations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design, development, and testing of software solutions from business requirements and/or application specifications to packaged custom software
• Automation and refactoring of existing system and develop future software solutions
• Integrations between various internal and external systems including but not limited to SQL databases and financial analytics platforms such as Matlab and Bloomberg
• Create technical design and support documentation as required by software development life cycle
• Work with senior developers and technology leaders to create and maintain change requests and follow the change management process
• Development and operational support of new and existing software systems, take responsibility for data and system delivery on a routine basis by monitoring applications
• Work with quantitative analysts in the creation, implementation and maintenance of quantitative models into the production environment within SB’s Information Technology infrastructure
• Develop systems and tools for trading and valuation of derivatives portfolio using UI and server side programming technologies
• Work with internal and external IT teams to deliver data, reports to middle office, accounting, actuary, and management teams in timely manner
• Collaborate with quantitative technology director and business leaders in the creation and ongoing development of trading and hedging software solutions.
• Position being on the main trading floor, extensive interaction is expected with traders, developers, quants and middle office professionals
• Other projects as assigned to further enhance and automate the derivatives systems and operations.
Requirements and Qualifications
• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, Mathematics or related concentration
• Experience or professional knowledge in full software development practices
• Solid understanding or experience in sql and no-sql databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB
• Experience in a scripting, objected-oriented programming languages such as C#, Python, R, Java and Go
• Experience or good knowledge in web technologies like Asp.Net, Angular, CSS, Typescript and .Net core
• Experience or knowledge in desktop applications, web applications and web api development.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and multi-tasking skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills along with presentation skills
Preferred:
• Experience or professional knowledge in quantitative analysis, statistics, financial mathematics
• Experience or knowledge in using development tools such as visual studio code, PyCharm
• Experience in dev ops processes such as continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD)
• Experience in containerization, automated testing methods and tools
• Experience in distributed systems and mobile application development
• Understanding or exposure to cloud computing technologies such as AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure
• Knowledge or experience in reporting tools such as qlik, tableau
• Knowledge in machine learning, natural language processing techniques
Consider joining our progressive team in our nationally recognized company. Visit the career section of our website at http://www.securitybenefit.com complete the online application and submit your resume. EOE