Are you a technically strong Quant Developer ready to build the data, research and investment systems that power systematic equity strategies within a purpose-led, growing ASX-listed investment manager?
About Us
Australian Ethical is one of Australia’s fastest-growing super fund and ethical investment managers. We are ASX-listed with over $14 billion in funds under management and offer a selection of award-winning managed funds and superannuation products.
Our purpose is to invest for a better world, and we have been pioneers in this space for almost 40 years. For us, investing has two aims – generating solid financial returns and a positive impact for people, planet, and animals. At Australian Ethical, we prove that money can be a force for good. We do this by staying true to our purpose, which is embedded throughout our organisation and drives our everyday activities as a business, investor, brand, employer, and corporate citizen. We’re a registered B Corp and fully committed to an inclusive, equitable and forward-thinking workplace culture.
Your New Role
The Quant Developer will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining the data and research infrastructure that power our systematic equities strategies. With particular emphasis on enabling systematic equity research, portfolio construction, and implementation the role will contribute to the broader strategic objectives of Australian Ethical to achieve growth in funds under management.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Build and manage the investment data platforms that underpin domestic and international systematic equity strategies
- Develop and maintain high-quality market, fundamental, benchmark and corporate action datasets used across research and portfolio management
- Design and enhance scalable research infrastructure that enables portfolio managers and researchers to test, evaluate and implement investment ideas
- Partner closely with investment professionals to develop new alpha signals, factor models and quantitative research capabilities
- Own data integrity across global equity markets, ensuring accuracy through complex corporate actions, security lifecycle events and benchmark changes
- Develop automated solutions and production-quality systems supporting portfolio construction, optimisation and trade implementation
- Improve the efficiency, reliability and scalability of investment research and operational workflows
- Contribute directly to the development of proprietary investment, risk and analytics capabilities within a collaborative quantitative investment environment
What we’re looking for
You have a passion for equity markets and quantitative investing, along with strong SQL and Python skills. You combine analytical rigour with a deep understanding of market data, corporate actions, and security master management, enabling you to deliver high-quality data solutions that support investment research and portfolio management.
If you have all or most of the following, we’d love to hear from you:
- 3+ years of experience in quantitative development. investment systems development, financial data engineering or similar
- Demonstrated track record of supporting quant research projects, enhancing and developing new strategies
- Experience building a database of securities for the purposes of research and production
- Ability to work effectively with portfolio managers and researchers in a high performing investment team
- Exposure to systematic equity strategies, quantitative modelling, or portfolio optimisation techniques
- Proficiency in SQL and Python essential, Snowflake highly regarded
- Ideally, experience working in a production investment environment, including supporting live portfolios and trading workflows
- Relevant Tertiary Qualifications
- CFA designation highly regarded
What’s in it for you
- A competitive salary, including short-term and long-term incentives, including access to an Employee Share Plan
- Hybrid work arrangements
- Wellbeing program that includes additional leave above statutory requirements
- Birthday Leave
- Purpose-aligned volunteer days
- 20 days paid annual leave with an additional 3 paid days of annual leave between Christmas and New Year.
- The opportunity to play a highly visible leadership role in shaping how a purpose-led organisation delivers strategic, enterprise-wide transformation.
Want to know more about what it’s like to work at Australian Ethical? Check out our LinkedIn Life Page here: Australian Ethical LinkedIn Life Page or our Careers and Culture page here: Australian Ethical Work With Us.
At Australian Ethical we embrace diversity in our people and thinking. We are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or disability status.
Join the Team
If this role interests you and you’d love to join the Australian Ethical team, apply here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Please note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications or approaches via recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Background checks will be conducted for the successful candidate, as per our regulatory requirements as a financial services organisation.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in quantitative development, investment systems development, or financial data engineering
- Proficiency in SQL
- Proficiency in Python
- Demonstrated track record supporting quant research projects and developing new strategies
- Experience building a securities database for research and production
- Strong understanding of market data, corporate actions, and security lifecycle management
- Ability to work effectively with portfolio managers and researchers in an investment team
- Exposure to systematic equity strategies, quantitative modelling or portfolio optimisation techniques
- Experience in a production investment environment including supporting live portfolios and trading workflows
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
- Relevant tertiary qualifications
- CFA designation
What We Do
A superannuation and investment fund manager with a difference. We believe that the power of money can be harnessed to deliver both competitive returns and positive change for society and the environment. By investing responsibly in well-managed, ethical companies, this is exactly what we achieve. We seek out positive investments that support people, quality and sustainability, and we avoid investments that cause unnecessary harm to people, animals, society and the environment. While we do believe a small group of people can change the world, the opportunity is far bigger than that. The more people that invest ethically, the more significant the positive change we will create. Imagine the impact of all that money invested for good. There’s never been a better time to take control of your own financial wellbeing and the wellbeing of families, communities and the planet. Ethical and sustainable investing isn’t just a part of what we do. Unlike most of our competitors, it’s everything we do. And while we’ve evolved in many ways since starting in 1986, we have always stayed true to this. Now, we manage $12.95 billion for more than 130,000 funded customers (managed fund investors and funded superannuation members) as at 30 June 2024. Disclaimer: Please be aware that this page provides you with general information only and does not take account of your individual investment objectives, financial situation or needs. Before acting on it, consider its appropriateness to your circumstances. You should consider seeking independent advice from an accredited financial adviser before deciding whether to acquire, or continue to hold, units in the fund or interests in the fund. Although we always do our utmost to uphold accuracy, Australian Ethical does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the information contained in the posts to this page. Past performance is not always a reliable indicator of future performance
