Vice President, Quantitative Developer SpiderRock

About this role

About this role

SpiderRock Advisors (SRA) seeks a highly skilled Quantitative Developer to help scale the technology used to support its option overlay separately managed account (SMA) strategies across proposal generation portfolio construction risk analytics and trading workflows.

This role sits in SRAs technology organization and involves designing building and supporting production-grade platforms for option analytics margin monitoring and technology assisted trading. The ideal candidate brings strong software engineering discipline practical experience working with quantitative or data-intensive systems and a solid understanding of option markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain Python-based services libraries and analytics tools.

• Collaborate with the portfolio management research trading and sales teams to transform ideas into useable software products.

• Serve as a subject matter expert on option markets within the technology organization.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in a programming language with a preference for Python.

• Experience building maintainable production-quality software.

• Strong understanding of software design testing debugging version control observability and production support practices.

• Strong knowledge of option markets volatility surfaces greeks scenario analysis VaR and other risk measures.

• Broad knowledge of financial markets data providers and risk models.

• Strong analytical problem-solving communication and decision-making skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Able to effectively leverage AI to increase productivity and produce high-quality code.

• Knowledge of risk based and Reg T margin calculations (desirable but not required).

Requirements & Professional Experience

• 5 years of professional quantitative development software engineering data engineering or financial technology experience.

• 2 years of professional experience with derivatives.

• Experience working with systems that support trading portfolio construction risk analytics market data or investment workflows.

• Experience with Dash Open Container Initiative (OCI) container image packaging and runtime Prefect MySQL AWS (desirable but not required).

Education

• Bachelors Masters or PhD in a highly quantitative field.

For Chicago IL Only the salary range for this position is USD$160000.00 - USD$210000.00 . Additionally employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and benefits including healthcare leave benefits and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role location and firm department and individual performance.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized engaged and inspired we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan tuition reimbursement comprehensive healthcare support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRocks hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock AI has long been part of how we work enhancing decision-making improving operations and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn prepare and work more effectively; but during our interview process we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences thinking and judgment. To support you weve provided guidanceon when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients and the people they serve are saving for retirement paying for their childrens educations buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment the one we make in our employees. Its why were dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed valued and supported with networks benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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