Quant Platform Architect Lead for Open Quant

Fasanara Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Life and income protection

EAP and pension

Parental leave

Cycle to work

Wellbeing budget

Team events

Job summary

Fasanara Capital in London is seeking a Quant Technology Lead to design, architect, and evolve the Open Quant platform powering its multi-manager hedge fund. You will translate investment and risk requirements into scalable production technology and lead a hands-on engineering team.

Reporting to the Head of Technology, you will own the technical roadmap, collaborate with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and operations, and build cloud-native, secure systems with a strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Significant software engineering and solution architecture experience.
• Proven experience delivering technology for investment, trading, portfolio management, risk, or related institutional financial services platforms.
• Strong understanding of financial markets, investment workflows, and quantitative investment technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, development, and evolution of the Open Quant technology platform.
• Build scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native systems supporting a growing multi-manager quantitative investment business.
• Define the technical roadmap for core investment, portfolio, risk, data, and operational systems.
• Design robust APIs, data models, and integration frameworks.
• Establish strong engineering standards across security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Act as a hands-on technical lead while helping develop the wider Quant Technology function.
• Design and develop institutional-quality investment and portfolio management technology.
• Build portfolio aggregation, investment analytics, and cross-manager risk monitoring capabilities.
• Develop portfolio, risk, and analytics capabilities on top of a centralised Position Ledger.
• Build APIs and data services providing information to Portfolio Management, Risk, and Operations.
• Ensure investment data and analytics are accurate, reproducible, and auditable.
• Lead the development of a central Position Ledger integrating broker positions.
• Build and maintain security master and pricing datasets.
• Design scalable data architecture and pipelines for research, portfolio management, analytics, and production monitoring.
• Integrate market data providers, prime brokers, custodians, fund administrators, and other external systems.

Skills

Software engineering

Solution architecture

Cloud-native

APIs

Data platforms

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Job description

Fasanara Capital in London is seeking a Quant Technology Lead to design, architect, and evolve the Open Quant platform powering its multi-manager hedge fund. You will translate investment and risk requirements into scalable production technology and lead a hands-on engineering team.

Reporting to the Head of Technology, you will own the technical roadmap, collaborate with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and operations, and build cloud-native, secure systems with a strong emphasis on