Lead Quantitative Developer - Investment Data & Systems

Fidelity; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 174,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity is seeking a Principal Quantitative Developer to design reliable, scalable systems that support investment research and decision‑making across the organization. You will develop APIs, data pipelines, and cloud solutions to enable quantitative analysis, ensuring high reliability and test coverage.

The role emphasizes production‑level software, CI/CD, automated testing, and mentoring, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Investment Research to deliver end‑to‑end models and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree as specified with related domain experience.
• Experience building quantitative and analytical solutions in finance.
• Proven ability to validate models with testing and regression checks.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes and implements systematic investment strategies including time-series forecasting, multi-asset portfolio construction, risk management frameworks, alpha research, and simulation-based algorithms.
• Translates research concepts into production-ready software solutions across the full software development lifecycle.
• Designs scalable, maintainable quantitative systems based on business requirements.
• Keeps up with emerging quantitative methodologies to enhance investment capabilities.
• Provides domain expertise across assets and supports research teams developing new models and tools.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Investment Research to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Contributes to long-term architecture planning and technology roadmaps.
• Communicates complex quantitative concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentors junior team members.

Skills

Python

R

Quantitative modeling

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Mathematics in Finance, Actuarial Science, Statistics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent)

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Mathematics in Finance, Actuarial Science, Statistics, or a closely related field (or foreign education equivalent)

Tools

Python

R

Job description

Fidelity is seeking a Principal Quantitative Developer to design reliable, scalable systems that support investment research and decision‑making across the organization. You will develop APIs, data pipelines, and cloud solutions to enable quantitative analysis, ensuring high reliability and test coverage.

The role emphasizes production‑level software, CI/CD, automated testing, and mentoring, with collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Investment Research to deliver end‑to‑end models and