Vice President, Quantitative Developer

Blackrock

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$160,000–$210,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
14 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Jan 1, 2027

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About Blackrock

BlackRock is the world''s largest asset management firm, providing investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional and retail clients through its Aladdin technology platform. Industry: Asset Management & Financial Services

Blackrock currently has 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $155,000–$200,000 across 25 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Vice President, Quantitative Developer

The Vice President, Quantitative Developer joins the technology organization to scale systems supporting option overlay separately managed account strategies. This role involves designing, building, and supporting production-grade platforms for option analytics, margin monitoring, and technology-assisted trading. The developer will build Python-based services, libraries, and analytics tools while collaborating with portfolio management, research, trading, and sales teams to transform ideas into software products. Key responsibilities include maintaining software quality through testing, debugging, version control, and observability. The position requires expertise in option markets, including volatility surfaces, greeks, scenario analysis, and VaR. Technical skills include Python, Dash, OCI container image packaging, Prefect, MySQL, and AWS. The work focuses on solving complex problems in proposal generation, portfolio construction, risk analytics, and trading workflows within a derivatives context.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain Python-based services, libraries, and analytics tools.
  • Build and support production-grade platforms for option analytics and margin monitoring.
  • Develop technology-assisted trading workflows and portfolio construction systems.
  • Transform ideas from portfolio management and research teams into usable software products.
  • Serve as the technology organization's subject matter expert on option markets.
  • Implement software engineering best practices including testing, debugging, and version control.
  • Leverage AI tools to increase coding productivity and ensure high-quality software output.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a highly quantitative field.
  • 5+ years of professional quantitative development, software engineering, data engineering, or financial technology experience.
  • 2+ years of professional experience with derivatives.
  • Strong proficiency in a programming language with a preference for Python (preferred).
  • Experience building maintainable, production-quality software with knowledge of design, testing, debugging, version control, and observability.
  • Strong knowledge of option markets, volatility surfaces, greeks, scenario analysis, VaR, and other risk measures.
  • Experience working with systems that support trading, portfolio construction, risk, analytics, market data, or investment workflows.
  • Experience with Dash, OCI container image packaging and runtime, Prefect, MySQL, and AWS (desirable but not required).

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