Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist
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Job Location:
Charlotte, VT - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 185000 - 300000
Posted on:
07-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Quantitative Software Engineer Vice President (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 Companys 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 firms proprietary analytics library in C.
Generate test implement and deploy ideas to improve system performance or team productivity.
Improve the librarys safety reliability and usability.
Work constructively in collaboration with business model development model validation and IT.
Required Qualifications:
- 5 years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience training military experience education
- 2 years of C17
- 3 yrs Python experience
Desired Qualifications:
- Masters degree or higher in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics statistics engineering physics economics or computer science
- 2 years hands on programming experience C17 C2x
- 3 years of quantitative analytics library software development experience in a buy-side or sell-side institution or a quant solution vendor
- 3years 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
- Experience in or passionate about Agentic AI
- Excellent verbal written and interpersonal communication skills
Job Expectations:
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Work Hybrid schedule at one of the locations listed
- Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities and/or personal investing;affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.
Pay Range
Reflected 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.
$185000.00 - $300000.00Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits many of which are listed below. VisitBenefits - 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:
6 Nov 2025*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit Market Financial Crimes Operational Regulatory Compliance) which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring governance risk identification and escalation as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business units risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
Applicants with Disabilities
To request a medical accommodation during the application or interview process visitDisability Inclusion at Wells Fargo.
Drug and Alcohol Policy
Wells Fargo maintains a drug free workplace. Please see our Drug and Alcohol Policy to learn more.
Wells Fargo Recruitment and Hiring Requirements:
a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Adobe Analytics
- Data Analytics
- SQL
- Attribution Modeling
- Power BI
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Tableau
- Data Mining
- SAS
- Analytics
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