Quantitative Strategist (Executive / Senior Executive)

About the role

Eastspring, a global asset manager with Asia at its core, is looking for a technically rigorous, investment-literate analytics professional to join its quantitative research team. The team sits at the intersection of a fundamental investment approach and quantitative rigour, reports to the Global Chief Investment Officer and covers Equities and Fixed Income, with oversight on Multi-assets and Quantitative Strategies. The role involves building analytics platforms and translating analytical output into actionable advice for the Global CIO and Heads of Investments.

Key responsibilities

• Support the design, development and production deployment of investment analytics, including version control, release cycles and iterative improvements in a structured quantitative development environment.
• Identify, prototype and productionise new analytical approaches across descriptive and predictive applications, developing and maintaining production-grade code with a focus on quality, reproducibility, documentation and maintainability.
• Draw insights from the analytics built and work with senior colleagues to engage investment teams in challenging and improving discretionary portfolio construction; provide management intelligence to the CIO.
• Provide on-demand support to the CIO on priority initiatives contributing to strategic business objectives.

Required profile

• 2-4 years of relevant experience in an analytics or technology role supporting Equities or Fixed Income investment teams, either in an adjacent or embedded team.
• Familiarity with how alpha is generated for Equities and/or Fixed Income.

Required skills

• Proficiency in SQL, R / Python and front-end frameworks such as Shiny, Dash and Quarto.
• Familiarity with engineering practices: version control, CI/CD, unit testing and API integration.
• Differentiating skills: Azure ecosystem, Databricks, front-end development, multi-agent systems and orchestration.