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Head of core strats

FreshtechIT

A leading global investment organisation are hiring for a senior engineering leader to build and lead a small team responsible for a critical financial data and quantitative technology platform.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an exceptional engineer with deep experience across financial data, quantitative technology, trading infrastructure or investment systems.

The role:

  • Lead a small team of senior engineers while remaining hands-on
  • Own the architecture of a core financial data platform
  • Build high-performance time-series and financial data infrastructure
  • Develop security, instrument and entity master capabilities
  • Build APIs and libraries used by quantitative and investment teams
  • Establish robust point-in-time, bitemporal and reconciliation capabilities
  • Support research-to-production workflows
  • Partner with quants, strategists, portfolio professionals and technology leadership
  • Help shape an increasingly AI-native engineering environment
  • Deep financial markets / quantitative technology experience
  • Strong systems design and performance instincts
  • Experience building platforms that sophisticated engineers and quants actively choose to use
  • Excellent communication and technical leadership skills

AI experience is highly relevant, including Claude, Codex, MCPs, agentic workflows, hooks, skills and evaluation frameworks.

New York – 5 days onsite

Remote throughout August

This is a strictly confidential mandate. The client name and further details will be shared directly with relevant candidates.

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