Director, Quantitative Data Operations

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Position Overview

Quantitative Research and Investments (QRI) seeks a highly motivated data expert to lead a Risk Platform Operations team. The team ensures that all vendor and internal portfolio risk analytics used for risk management and portfolio construction across Fidelity are delivered consistently, accurately, and on a timely basis.

Key Responsibilities

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• Provide data expertise to portfolio and risk managers who use portfolio risk models and engineering teams that build production processes around them.
  
• Mentor junior team members, fostering domain expertise and root‑cause daily issues effectively.
  
• Collaborate with internal and external data providers to resolve issues at source.
  
• Answer investor questions and develop automated systems for identifying data quality issues.
  
• Manage a quality services effort to respond to data quality issues in overnight feeds, building and tracking data quality KPIs.
  
• Update and verify multi‑factor risk model inputs and outputs before delivery to clients.
  
• Analyze systems, processes, and data provider relationships to find efficiencies and improve accuracy and timeliness of reporting.
  

Value You Deliver

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• Contribute to data model design and lead management and stewardship of data assets used in risk management and portfolio construction.
  
• Enable Fidelity Asset Management’s access to accurate, timely, and relevant portfolio risk analytics.
  
• Mentor junior analysts to grow data domain, data operations, and security modeling skill sets.
  

Skills You Bring

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• Extensive experience with market risk models from vendors such as Barra, Axioma, Northfield, or Bloomberg.
  
• High analytical ability, quickly comprehending large data sets and implementing quality controls.
  
• Proactive and self‑motivated, meeting objectives with minimal direction, overseeing and mentoring junior team members.
  
• Experience in security, company, portfolio, and index‑level information used in the financial industry.
  
• Experience in SQL, Python, Snowflake, and/or Oracle and related tools and data quality frameworks.
  

Expertise You Have

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• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, finance, or another quantitative field.
  
• 5+ years’ experience in global data operations and/or support teams in peer firm(s) with a demonstrable track record delivering the value described for this role.
  
• Experience with autonomous and discretionary anomaly detection and data quality workflow.
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experience working with technical, investment, and senior leadership teams.
  
• Experience as a leader, mentoring junior associates and driving process improvements.
  
• Proven track record working with complex data environments and associated technology and analytics infrastructure.
  
• Demonstrated ability to root‑cause data quality issues and correct them at source.
  
• Experience creating automated processes to identify errors and ensure high quality of data to support the investment process.
  
• Experience documenting essential procedures and calculations, and validating data.
  
• Investment Management business domain expertise across risk management, portfolio management, trading, and investment operations.
  

The Team

The Risk Platform team is an integral part of the Quantitative Research and Investing division in Asset Management. QRI provides high quality, data‑driven support to Fidelity’s fundamental investment professionals, ensuring they have access to the most relevant and advanced quantitative analysis.

Seniority Level

Director

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Management and Manufacturing