Quant Technology Lead
Fasanara Capital is an alternative asset manager offering institutional investors fintech lending and digital asset investment strategies.
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About Fasanara Capital
Fasanara Capital is a London-based alternative asset manager focused on fintech lending and digital asset investing for institutional clients. It offers strategies spanning trade receivables, consumer loans, real estate credit, market-neutral crypto trading, and bespoke multi-asset portfolios. The firm operates a proprietary credit platform integrating a global network of fintech loan originators with machine learning analytics.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You lead the design, architecture, delivery, and evolution of the Open Quant technology platform. You build secure cloud-native systems, investment and portfolio management capabilities, risk monitoring, a central Position Ledger, data pipelines, APIs, and external integrations. You translate investment requirements into scalable solutions, drive the technology roadmap, apply AI and automation, and partner with investment, risk, operations, and technology stakeholders.
Requirements
- Significant software engineering and solution architecture experience
- Track record of building scalable production systems
- Experience delivering technology for investment, trading, portfolio management, risk, or institutional financial services platforms
- Strong understanding of financial markets, investment workflows, and quantitative investment technology
- Practical knowledge of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, databases, and production infrastructure
- Strong hands-on software engineering capability
- Architecture and technical leadership experience
- Experience designing secure and resilient systems
- Understanding of data accuracy, auditability, and operational reliability
- Ability to translate complex investment and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Strong understanding of data architecture and integration across internal and external data sources
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership, accountability, and attention to detail
- Strong interest in innovation and applying AI to technology and investment workflows
- Experience in a multi-manager hedge fund, quantitative investment platform, systematic asset manager, proprietary trading firm, or comparable institutional environment
- Experience building shared investment platforms
- Knowledge of financial instruments, portfolio construction, risk management, execution, and investment fund operations
- Experience integrating prime brokers, fund administrators, custodians, market data providers, or portfolio management systems
- Experience building investment and risk analytics
- Experience helping build or lead technology and engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, architecture, development, and evolution of the Open Quant technology platform
- Build scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native systems
- Define the technical roadmap for investment, portfolio, risk, data, and operational systems
- Design robust APIs, data models, and integration frameworks
- Establish engineering standards for security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence
- Act as a hands-on technical lead
- Develop the wider Quant Technology function
- Design and develop investment and portfolio management technology
- Build portfolio aggregation, investment analytics, and cross-manager risk monitoring capabilities
- Develop portfolio, risk, and analytics capabilities on the central Position Ledger
- Build APIs and data services for investment, portfolio, and risk information
- Ensure investment data and analytics are accurate, reproducible, and auditable
- Lead development of the central Position Ledger
- Build and maintain security master and pricing datasets
- Design market, portfolio, reference, and operational data architecture
- Build data pipelines for quantitative research, portfolio management, analytics, and production monitoring
- Integrate market data providers, prime brokers, custodians, fund administrators, and other external systems
- Drive practical AI applications across software development and investment workflows
- Automate investment and operational processes with appropriate controls and auditability
- Evaluate technologies that improve platform performance, scalability, and engineering productivity
- Partner with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers
- Drive the Quant Technology roadmap with Quant and Technology leadership
Benefits
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Private medical and dental insurance through Bupa, including children's cover
- Life insurance
- Income protection
- Critical illness cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Salary sacrifice pension currently matched up to 10%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Emergency parental leave
- Emergency childcare and nursery benefit
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Charity giving through CAF
- Annual wellbeing budget
- Team socials
- Annual Summer and Christmas parties
- Other events throughout the year