Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.

Overview

The U.S. Equity Research team is looking for a Quantitative Product Manger in the San Francisco office to support our Active Equity Research and Product Teams. The ideal candidate will have strong development and programming skills as well as experience supporting empirical financial research and a proven capability to manage large databases. Familiarity with common financial databases (e.g., Compustat, Barra, IBES) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Work with the U.S. equity research team to setup data feeds, data models, and derived data.
• Design validation and transformation rules and mapping.
• Manage exceptions and errors and the future needs for data and analytics in support of investment strategies.
• Assist researchers in the acquisition and processing of financial data.
• Interact with product developers, vendor relations, IT, and operations to provide reliable financial information to support investment strategies.
• Work directly with market data vendors to set-up and implement new data feeds or data models.

Qualifications

• Requires background in programming languages, such as: SQL, Perl, SAS, Matlab, Java.
• Knowledge of Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, or MySQL databases is highly desirable.
• Three to five years of experience managing and designing production databases and supporting empirical financial research.
• M.S. or B.S. in Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Operations Research or other analytical discipline.
• Excellent analytic and problem solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver solutions.
• Strong initiative and a thirst for knowledge.

To apply:

To apply, upload a Word or PDF resume to the following URL:

https://barclays.recruitmax.com/main/careerportal/candidate_update.cfm?szOrderID=4487

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and winning first place in the SF Business Times' ''Best Places to Work in the Bay Area 2008" Awards (Large Companies category), the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 3,700 people globally and manages approximately $2 trillion in assets.