Vice President, Front Office Risk Engine Quantitative Developer

Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, including a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients. We focus on our clients' overall financial needs, with consideration and respect for their total relationship with Wells Fargo.

Markets provides solutions to clients with the means to manage their exposure through various derivatives, lending and cash products across Structured Products Group, Rates, Equities, Foreign Exchange, Municipal Products Group, Credit Sales & Trading.

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Vice President, Front Office Risk Engine Quantitative Developer to help design, build, and evolve a cross‑asset valuation and risk platform supporting Rates, FX, Credit, Municipals, Treasuries, and Agencies.

The role focuses on strategic risk platforms that power valuation, risk, P&L, and regulatory workflows, operating at scale across intraday and end‑of‑day (EOD) processing. You will work closely with Front Office, Risk, and Finance stakeholders to deliver robust, high‑performance systems that support trading, risk management, P&L attribution, and financial control.  Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at www.wellsfargojobs.com.

In this role, you will:

• Design and develop valuation and risk engines across Rates, FX, Credit, Munis, Treasuries, and Agencies.
• Support pricing, sensitivities, full revaluation, P&L attribution, and capital use cases on a shared platform.
• Integrate quantitative models into production‑grade Java services with a strong focus on robustness and performance.
• Build and enhance Vasara risk and valuation services, including evaluators, result services, and data distribution layers.
• Develop distributed, stateful computation using Apache Ignite or similar in‑memory / distributed data technologies.
• Ensure scalability for millions of positions and events across asset classes.
• Architect and maintain EOD batch frameworks for valuation, risk, and P&L generation.
• Support EOD risk and long‑running valuation processes.
• Optimize performance, batch runtimes, and cluster utilization under heavy workloads.
• Partner closely with Finance on: Clean and comprehensive P&L, P&L Attribution and Explain, Valuation Control and Finance sign‑off
• Work with Market Risk and Capital teams to ensure consistency across valuation, risk, and reporting outputs.
• Align technical design with downstream Finance, Risk, and Regulatory requirements.
• Own critical production components, including performance tuning, data consistency, and resiliency.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues related to distributed queries, indexing, memory pressure, and concurrency.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams on design, BCP, and capacity planning.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Securities Quantitative Analytics experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong Java (concurrency, memory management, performance optimization).
• Experience owning systems end‑to‑end, from design through production support across projects involving Quants, Risk, and Finance.
• Experience with Rates, FX, Credit, Treasuries, Agencies, or Munis businesses and products
• Hands‑on experience building high‑performance, distributed systems.
• Proven expertise with Apache Ignite (or similar in‑memory / distributed platforms).
• Solid understanding of distributed computing, stateful services, and parallel execution.
• Experience designing and operating large‑scale EOD batch systems.
• Experience developing valuation and/or risk platforms in Capital Markets.
• Familiarity with pricing models, sensitivities, curve‑based valuation, and full revaluation workflows.
• Ability to translate quant and Finance requirements into scalable system designs.
• Experience with multi‑threading, low‑latency computation, and performance profiling.
• Strong debugging skills in multi‑node, distributed production environments.
• Knowledge of Ignite SQL, indexing, and query optimization.
• Experience modernizing or scaling enterprise risk platforms.
• Experience with P&L Attribution, Clean P&L, or valuation control frameworks.
• Exposure to event‑driven architectures.

Job Expectations:

• This position is subject to FINRA background screening requirements. Candidates must successfully complete and pass a background check prior to hire. In accordance with FINRA rules, individuals who are subject to statutory disqualification are not eligible to be associated with a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. Successful candidates must also meet and comply with ongoing regulatory obligations, which include periodic screening and mandatory reporting of certain incidents.
• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process.
• Keywords: Athena, Quartz, Vasara, Market Risk, SecDB, C++, Quant, Developer, Market Risk

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.

Benefits

Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:

*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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