Our Swiss client Risk department is now looking for a Senior Quantitative Developer - R, Python, Cloud Migration & Risk Systems.

It's a contract position initially until end 2025 with potential to go until 2026. It's fully remote with max. once per month in Zurich. Possibility to invoice as Freiberufler.

THE ROLE

• Act as R expert and tech lead to support the migration of the R-Framework, including all packages, interfaces, and dependencies, from Mesap, Prophet, P7 to MDS and Monet, ensuring a smooth transition with minimal disruption to business operations.
• Drive the reconciliation of large datasets, such as market data, between Mesap, CMDP, P7 and MDS, ensuring the highest standards of data quality, integrity, and accuracy throughout the migration process.
• Lead the adaptation of the R-Framework to fully leverage the new REST API and JSON structures, enhancing integration, functionality, and performance
• Support with the Risk department to streamline and optimize their development and deployment pipelines, ensuring seamless code management and deployment from Git repositories to Mesap, P7, Prophet and Monet for improved efficiency and agility.
• Guide and advise the Risk department on adopting best practices for R development in the cloud, while leveraging the Risk R-framework to achieve state-of-the-art code quality and performance.

YOU NEED

Experience as Quant Developer and Data Scientist.

Development experience in Python, R, relational databases and cloud environment.

Experience with CI/CD using Git and Github actions and Azure DevOps.

Additional skills that would be considered as plus

Experience with Linux and Docker
Experience with managing, processing, reconciling and testing large data sets