About this role
the company is seeking a Vice President, Interest Rates Quant Developer to join the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) organization. This role sits within a front-office quantitative team responsible for developing and enhancing advanced models and tools supporting the pricing, risk management, and trading of interest rate products across linear and non-linear markets.
The successful candidate will contribute to a strategic, firm-wide initiative to build a next-generation, cross-asset quantitative risk and trading platform. The role requires close collaboration with Rates Trading, Technology, and cross-asset Quantitative teams, and offers direct exposure to front-office decision-making.
In this role, you will
- Design, build, and enhance pricing and risk analytics for linear and non-linear interest rate products, including curve construction and volatility surface calibration for trading and risk management.
- Maintain and extend a high-performance C++ quantitative analytics library, with responsibility for robustness, testing, performance optimisation, object serialisation, and CI/CD integration.
- Strengthen the quantitative testing framework by expanding unit, regression, and integration tests, and automating ongoing model performance and stability monitoring.
- Develop scalable trading-desk tools supporting pricing, risk diagnostics, P&L explain, and ad-hoc quantitative analysis.
- Provide hands‑on support to the trading desk, including troubleshooting, enhancements, and analysis of model behaviour.
- Partner closely with Rates Trading, Sales & Trading, Technology, Model Validation, and Project Management teams to deliver robust, production‑ready solutions.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in quantitative analytics for interest rates or macro products, gained in a front-office, risk, or quantitative development environment.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong hands‑on development experience in C++ and Python.
- Experience building and maintaining quantitative libraries with modern testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins).
- Experience with Java and/or SWIG is a plus.
- Solid understanding of interest rate derivative products and markets, including swaps, futures, swaptions, and caps/floors; experience with exotics is an advantage.
- Experience with optimisation-based and multi-curve pricing engines.
- Familiarity with instrument and index conventions across developed and/or emerging markets.
- Proven experience partnering directly with Sales and Trading as a front‑office quant or strat.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex quantitative concepts clearly.
- Master’s or PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computational or Quantitative Finance, or a related technical discipline.
Posting End Date
14 May 2026
We Value Equal Opportunity
the company 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.
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