Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions (FTIS) is seeking a Quant Implementation Lead to drive the development of the investment engine within their next-generation MosaiQ Platform. This platform will become the backbone of their end-to-end multi-asset portfolio construction process, embedding their investment philosophy into a scalable, transparent, and flexible system.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical role within a quantitative finance or investment management environment.
- Proven track record as a Quantitative Researcher, Developer, or Analyst, ideally within a buy-side asset management firm.
- Deep understanding of systematic investment strategies, quantitative portfolio construction, and alpha research.
- Strong programming skills in Python (required)
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining critical production systems used in investment decision-making or portfolio management.
- Proficiency in working with large-scale financial datasets, time series analysis, and statistical modeling.
- Solid grasp of financial markets, risk modeling, and portfolio optimization techniques.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the investment engine, the core platform enabling portfolio construction at FTIS.
- Collaborate with quantitative investment staff to ensure that investment processes and quantitative models are translated into robust, scalable systems.
- Gather complex requirements from the investment team and distill them into elegant and approachable designs.
- Educate and mentor professionals across FTIS, promoting best practices and adoption of the platform.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining critical production systems used in investment decision-making or portfolio management.
- Proficiency in working with large-scale financial datasets, time series analysis, and statistical modeling.
- Familiarity with backtesting frameworks, data pipelines, and performance attribution tools.
Other
- Ability to work closely with portfolio managers, researchers, and data engineers to translate investment ideas into scalable solutions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex quantitative concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Applications without a resume file attachment will not be reviewed.
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