Head of core strats

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

We're looking for:

• Strong Python plus C++, Rust, Java, C# or similar

• 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

🇺🇸 H-1B sponsorship supported

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