Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist (Req. #000895)

At Wells Fargo, we want to satisfy our customers’ financial needs and help them succeed financially. We’re looking for talented people who will put our customers at the center of everything we do.  Help us build a better Wells Fargo. It all begins with outstanding talent. It all begins with you.

Wells Fargo Technology sets IT strategy; enhances the design, development, and operations of our systems; optimizes the Wells Fargo infrastructure footprint; provides information security; and enables continuous banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels to Wells Fargo’s more than 70 million global customers.

Wells Fargo Bank N.A. seeks a Senior Lead Securities Quantitative Analytics Specialist in New York, NY.

Job Role and Responsibility: Advise senior leadership to develop or influence objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs across Securities Quantitative Analytics. Combine mathematical programming and market expertise, to build and generate systematic strategies. Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas companywide. Deliver solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking, and coordination of highly complex activities and guidance to others. Use quantitative and technological techniques to solve complex business problems. Conduct research on trading cost models, liquidity models, risk models, portfolio construction methodology, and signal generation. Provide vision, direction and expertise to more experienced leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large-scale cross-functional or companywide strategies. Develop automated trading algorithms, create cutting-edge derivative pricing models and empirical models, to provide insight into market behavior. Engage with all levels of professionals and managers companywide and serve as an expert advisor to leadership. Work constructively in collaboration with business, model development, model validation, and information technology. Play an integral role to the trading floor. Telecommuting is permitted up to 2 days a week. Position must appear in person to the location listed as the work address.

Travel required: Rare or infrequent domestic travel required.

Required Qualifications:

Position requires a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or in a related position involving securities quantitative analytics.

Specific skills required:

• Derivative products and capital markets experience across one or more asset classes, including rates, foreign exchange, credit, equities, and/or commodities, with a strong understanding of market conventions and risk drivers.
• Quantitative finance expertise encompassing derivatives pricing, valuation, and market risk analytics across multiple asset classes, including support for front‑office risk management and regulatory use cases.
• Advanced hands‑on programming experience in Java and C++, with working proficiency in Python, R, and SAS, and demonstrated use of functional programming techniques to implement scalable quantitative analytics.
• Experience designing and implementing asynchronous, event‑driven, or reactive architectures suitable for real‑time or near‑real‑time risk, pricing, and PnL computation.
• Enterprise‑scale software development experience, including integration with large distributed systems, database access using SQL, and use of source‑control and code‑repository tools within an Agile SDLC.
• Capital markets risk technology experience, including platforms that support front‑office risk, market risk calculations, valuation, PnL explain, and coordination with Risk and Finance functions.
• Product development on Linux and Unix environments, including deployment, performance tuning, and operational support of production quantitative systems.
• Strong background in statistical analysis and quantitative methods, including stochastic modeling, simulation, numerical optimization, and computational techniques used in pricing and risk management.
• Knowledge of regulatory and capital frameworks for financial institutions, including requirements relevant to market risk and capital calculations (e.g., regulatory reporting and internal risk management standards).

Salary: $215,000 - $355,000

Pay Range
 

Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.

$0.00 - $0.00

Posting End Date:

9 Sep 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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