Senior Quantitative Operations Specialist

Role Overview

• Act as a steward of data assets used in risk management and portfolio construction
• Manage a quality services effort to respond to data quality issues in overnight feeds, enabling fast and seamless responses to upstream issues and insulating production and research from them
• Update and verify the multi factor risk model inputs and outputs before delivery to clients
• Enable Fidelity Asset Management’s access to accurate, timely and relevant portfolio risk analytics, working closely with key technology and business partners to correct data quality issues at source
• Analyze systems and processes to find efficiencies and improve accuracy and timeliness of reporting

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, finance, or another quantitative field
• 3+ years’ experience in global data operations and/or support teams in peer firm(s) with a demonstrable track record delivering the value described for this role
• Experience with methods, tools, statistics, and best practices for autonomous and discretionary anomaly detection, and data quality workflow
• Experience with market risk models from vendors such as Barra, Axioma, Northfield, or Bloomberg
• Experience with vendor-provided risk data and capabilities, including Bloomberg PORT, BarraOne, RiskManager and/or Axioma
• Highly analytical with the ability to quickly comprehend large data sets, develop and implement the right quality controls for these datasets
• Proven track record of working with complex data environments and associated technology and analytics infrastructure needed to support these environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience working with both technical and investment teams
• Demonstrated ability to root-cause data quality issues in complex environments and work with other teams and data providers to correct issues at source
• Experience in creating automated processes to identify errors to ensure high quality of data to support the investment process
• Experience in documenting essential procedures and calculations, and validating data
• Investment Management business domain expertise across some combination of risk management, portfolio management, trading and investment operations

Benefits

• comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
• market-leading retirement
• generous paid time off and parental leave
• charitable giving employee match program
• educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career