Who We Are:

As a leading global investment management firm, AB fosters diverse perspectives and embraces innovation to help our clients navigate the uncertainty of capital markets. Through high-quality research and diversified investment services, we serve institutions, individuals, and private wealth clients in major markets worldwide. Our ambition is simple: to be our clients' most valued asset-management partner.

With over 4,400 employees across 51 locations in 25 countries, our people are our advantage. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration to create an environment where everyone can thrive and do their best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business, or providing thoughtful advice to clients, we're looking for unique voices to help lead us forward. If you're ready to challenge your limits and build your future, join us.

Who You'll Work With:

The Private Wealth Development department supports the Private Wealth Sales, Institutional Sales, Wealth Management, Marketing and Operations departments. This role is within the Equity Investment Management Technology (EIMT) group which is responsible for the Private Client Portfolio Management system known as SPSR. SPSR is used by the Private Client Portfolio Management team to manage and invest over 35,000 private client accounts with roughly $50 billion in assets under management. The SPSR system is comprised of numerous automated processes that continuously analyze and rebalance AB's Private Client portfolios using highly quantitative tools and portfolio optimizations that leverage AB's proprietary research models and algorithms. In addition to the automated rebalancing and trading processes, the SPSR system provides interactive tools that the Associate Portfolio Managers use on a daily basis for handling account-specific activities such as individual account optimizations, asset mix changes and new account investments.

What You'll Do:

This position will be responsible for analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting the SPSR system described above. The candidate will work on strategic and tactical projects to enhance system capabilities while continuing to support existing processes. In addition to designing and implementing software, this candidate will be expected to partner closely with business users to gather requirements and support time-sensitive requests for information. The ideal candidate must have at least 3 to 5 years of C++, Java or C# experience as well as significant SQL development experience.

The key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with business users to understand their needs and formulate solutions.
• Translate raw data into useful information to fulfill time-sensitive business needs.
• Design and implement software.
• Coordinate and oversee the quality assurance and user acceptance testing phases.
• Ultimately responsible for the success of the projects and tasks assigned.
• SQL Server Development (procs/udfs/db design)

What makes this role unique or interesting (if applicable)?

As a member of the Private Wealth Technology team, the developer will work with state-of-the-art technologies to create software solutions that solve complex financial issues and provide portfolio managers with the tools they need to implement and execute their investment strategies. This integration of technical and financial skills makes the position both highly challenging and interesting.

What is the professional development value of this role, i.e. what learning and professional growth

does the role offer the candidate?

The candidate will be provided access to state of the art on-line training, including Pluralsight.com. All members of the team are not only encouraged to keep their skills current, they are required to completely many hours of training in a calendar year. Additionally, the individual will be exposed to many areas of the Private Client business.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor's degree in CS or Math
• Minimum 3 years professional experience

Skills:

• Wealth Management/Investment Management process and data domain knowledge
• 3 to 5 years C++, Java and/or C# ( C++ and C# with experience in GUI design using WinForms preferred)
• 1-2 years SQL (Sybase ASE or Microsoft SQL Server) including stored procedures and table design.
• Solid analytical and trouble-shooting skills
• Graphical user interface design and development
• Strong objected oriented analysis and design
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related major.
• Very strong written and oral communication skills (absolute necessity)

Special Knowledge (if applicable):

• Although not required, knowledge of Azure, DevOps, Git, Swift, Python and Xamarin are desirable.

AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB's policies, as well as practices, seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants, based solely on job-related criteria.

Nashville, Tennessee