Senior Quantitative Equity Systems Developer

What Youll Do:

• Design build and operate cloudnative platforms that run quantitative equity models across research backtesting and production workflows

• Partner closely with portfolio managers quantitative researchers and traders to translate investment ideas into robust scalable technology solutions

• Architect systems that support active equity portfolio construction risk modeling factor analytics and execution workflows

• Integrate and work with carefully selected external vendor data provider solutions ensuring reliable performant and wellgoverned use of data.

• Collaborate with centralized enterprise technology teams to adopt and implement approved architectural patterns platforms and shared services

• Lead technical design decisions across distributed systems data pipelines and computeintensive workloads

• Drive engineering best practices around resilience observability performance and security in a frontoffice environment

• Mentor and influence other engineers raising the overall technical bar of the team

• Ability to be a change agent embrace innovation and shape people process and technology view to solving complex problems.

• Contribute to the longterm technology strategy for quantitative and systematic investing platforms

What were Looking For:

This role is designed for candidates who are equally comfortable in investment conversations and deep technical discussions. You sit with the investment team not behind layers of abstraction. It offers a rare opportunity to operate at the center of technology-driven active equity investing.

You will help shape the architecture and direction while embracing and fostering a culture that values technical excellence intellectual curiosity and close partnership with the business. If you are a senior engineer or technical lead who enjoys working on complex high-stakes systems wants to be deeply embedded in the investment process and brings both engineering rigor and investment domain knowledge we would love to hear from you!

Requirements:

• Minimum of ten years related work experience with at least five years of development experience. Prior Investment Systems experience required.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Extensive experience building large-scale production-grade software systems in complex domains.
• Strong understanding of quantitative or active equity investing including concepts such as factors signals portfolio optimization risk and execution.
• Demonstrated success working in front-office investment-aligned technology roles.
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering including objectoriented and/or functional programming paradigms distributed systems and dataintensive architectures and cloudnative platforms such as containerization orchestration and managed cloud services.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern data processing and numerical computing tools (e.g. Polars).
• Familiarity with machine learning and AI-assisted development techniques including the use of AI or agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code) to improve research and engineering productivity.
• Experience building and supporting AWS architecture including services such as EC2 CloudWatch ECS Sage Maker ECS Steps Functions Lambda and Postgres.
• Experience operating in environments where system performance reliability and correctness are business critical.
• Direct experience supporting quantitative equity systematic or multi-factor investment strategies.
• Familiarity with research and back-testing platforms market and alternative data and model lifecycle management.

Preferred Experience:

• Exposure to both legacy enterprise systems and modern engineering stacks with the ability to modernize thoughtfully.
• Prior experience working sidebyside with investment teams on a trading floor or similar frontoffice setting.
• Strong knowledge of equity trading and execution systems.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.