Job Description

Prudential's purpose is to help people get the most out of life. We will deliver our purpose by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our colleagues, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and in exchange, we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow and Succeed.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Build and maintain robust data infrastructure for use by the Quantitative Strategies (QS) group as well as other quant teams.
• Ensure that the quant data infrastructure and related processes are consistent with best practices and adhere to internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Continuously improve the individual productivity of all quant team members by identifying and automating manually intensive operations.
• Drive improvements in productivity and robustness of workflows of the quant teams by automating, stabilizing, and streamlining its workflows
• Source data internally and from external vendors as required
• Maintain documentation and guides for the benefit of all quant team members and for audit requirements.
• Promote best practices in relation to all forms of development activities across the quant teams including coding styles, patterns, documentation and version management.

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THE CANDIDATE

• The candidate should ideally have several years of quality work experience attained within an asset management or banking environment.
• The candidate should be a highly motivated and versatile professional who possesses the initiative and wide array of skills to solve tactical and strategic technical problems to complete various project tasks associated with the role.
• Strong interpersonal skills are expected as is the ability to work and develop software alongside strong academic oriented quants/researchers.
• Success in the role depends upon the candidate’s ability to build, maintain and support a robust data infrastructure, ultimately supporting the increasing number of funds handled by the QS group.

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS

• Strong academic degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar discipline.
• At least 3 years experience in the Finance industry. Specific experience within an asset management environment a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of Python or R, and SQL. Experience of C++, Java and C# will be considered as a plus.
• Strong desire to automate and ensure robustness of processes, and to provide support through fault diagnosis and incident management.
• Ability to design, create and maintain databases and stored procedures, and work with large volumes of data.
• Experience of working with market vendor’s API’s and SFTP sites a plus.
• Understanding of basic investment management principles and financial concepts.
• Good experience of SDLC, working with source control software, testing approaches and deployments through Jenkins an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to build and deliver robust solutions on time.
• Demonstrated ability to work productively within the team with both Quants and IT/Enterprise Data teams.
• Working knowledge of machine learning and data visualization techniques a plus.
• Experience of working within a cloud architecture an advantage.

ATTRIBUTES

• Strong technical problem solving ability a must.
• Very strong results-orientation.
• Ability to take on many tasks/assignments and execute them simultaneously.
• Highly organized with a keen sense for prioritisation.
• A team player.
• A strong sense of accountability.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact and drive outcomes across the various functional areas and regional offices of the firm; ability to deal effectively with all seniority levels and cultures throughout the organisation.
• Ability and willingness to plan, organize and deliver both strategic initiatives and tactical solutions.
• Strong desire to use IT skillset to support and ensure the smooth running of the group’s fund management business.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with special requirements.