Hybrid Senior Quantitative Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Quantitative Engineer joining Phoenix Group's Quantitative Engineering team within the Retirement Solutions and Asset Management function. Leading the embedding of quantitative tools across Phoenix in a fast-paced and greenfield environment.

Responsibilities

  • Enable the Equity Release Mortgage (ERM) Quant Engineering team to accelerate its delivery through partnering with various teams across RSAM, Actuarial, Finance, and Compliance to deliver tools, applications and reports that enable
  • Better assessment and monitoring of risk
  • Robust valuations
  • Faster and more efficient calculation of capital
  • End users to efficiently use the data, including robust technical and user documentation
  • Ensure that the outputs are of the utmost accuracy and reliability through development of automated tests, supporting quant team’s own manual testing, supporting user acceptance testing, and supporting Compliance model validation
  • Understand the derivative data, strategy, tooling and workflow within Phoenix and use this to ensure derivative positions are modelled and valued correctly
  • Identify EUC and models in wider functions where effective solutions can be developed in Beacon, then design and implement an end-to-end capability in partnership with each area to improve or retire EUCs all-together
  • Continuously tune-in to strategic initiatives across the Capital Markets team to help prioritise deliveries to align in materiality to business objectives.
  • Enhance the framework under which the Quant team builds and delivers is operating under appropriate controls
  • Collaborate with other team members across the wider Quant Engineering to identify and solve problems, while being approachable and flexible

Requirements

  • University Degree or ideally Masters’ Degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Actuarial Science, Engineering, Physics, or a related quantitative field
  • Expert level Python coding experience
  • Track record of developing, executing and embedding new capabilities in fast moving functions
  • Comprehensive understanding of financial markets, regulations, and industry trends
  • Extensive experience in a financial or quantitative role
  • Experience with C# (desirable)
  • Experience with Beacon, Athena, SecDB or similar (desirable)
  • Experience with Excel / VBA (desirable)
  • Knowledge of the UK life insurance regulatory landscape including Solvency II (desirable)
  • Cloud development experience (e.g. AWS / Azure) (desirable)
  • Knowledge of asset management and BPA business (desirable)
  • Familiarity with Software Development Lifecycle, controls, developing tests, and development best practice (desirable)

Benefits

  • £100,000 - £130,000 plus discretionary bonus
  • Private medical cover
  • 38 days annual leave
  • Excellent pension
  • 12x salary life assurance
  • Career breaks
  • Income protection
  • 3x volunteering days
  • Much more.

Job title

Senior Quantitative Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£100,000 - £130,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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