Quant Rates - Executive Director

About this role:
Our Corporate & Investment Banking Front Office Quantitative Model Development Team is working on a strategic buildout initiative. This strategic initiative will enhance our ability to partner and deliver excellent quality and service to our trading and sales partners as our platform continues to grow.
Wells Fargo is seeking candidates for the role of Securities Quantitative Analytics Director, which is an Executive Director level role within the Corporate & Investment Banking organization (CIB). The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for developing and implementing quantitative models and tools for Interest Rates risk management, trading, and pricing with focus on areas like forecasting, optimization, and risk mitigation.
This is part of a strategic initiative to build new models that will be integrated into a holistic markets quantitative risk and trading platform. Specific work will be spearheaded by the Front Office Interest Rates quant group but will be integrated into a cross asset-class platform within CIB.
In this role, you will:

• Design, development, and implementation of quantitative models for interest rates risk management, trading strategies, and pricing of interest rates products.
• Develop, integrate, and deploy optimization-based curve construction in collaboration with other Quants, providing expertise in relevant software design, implementation, and performance optimization.
• Effectively communicate and partner with Business Stakeholders, other Quant Teams, Technology and Project Management
• Deliver high-quality software and documentation following our standardized planning and Agile-based SDLC process.
• Support the trading desk with questions about deployed models.

• Proactively participate in complex software design & development activities within an Agile environment
• Contribute to large-scale project planning, balancing short and long-term objectives
• Use quantitative and advanced technologies to solve complex business problems
• Meet deliverables while adhering to policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and project managers to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Effectively communicate with and build consensus with all project stakeholders
• Serve as a mentor for less experienced staff

Required Qualifications:

• Hands-on coding experience, C++ and Java are most relevant, with an emphasis on numerical optimization
• Experience in derivative product and market experience in one or more of the following areas: rates and foreign exchange
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience with Rates products, both linear and no-linear, ideally in C++ and/or Java.
• Experience with Sales and Trading partners as a front office quant
• Master's or higher degree or equivalent in computer science, computational finance, mathematics or similar technical fields.
• PhD degree or equivalent in computer science, computational finance, or mathematics

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in successfully collaborating with others in a change driven environment.
• Curious to keep up with market practices and recent developments on the pricing and regulatory fronts.
• Good intuitions on the models and the model results.
• Strong interest in financial markets and willingness to provide practical solutions for a trading desk.

Posting End Date:
10 Aug 2025
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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