State Street Global Advisors: Internship Program - Fixed Income Quantitative Developer, (5 months Internship)

The Fixed Income Quantitative Developer will be a member of the EMEA Fixed Income Beta team, responsible for advancing the portfolio management process with a primary focus on developing technology-based investment tools and solutions. This position involves enhancing the fixed income portfolio management process through the integration of the latest quantitative techniques, adaptation of complex financial models for securities evaluation, liquidity analysis, and risk evaluation. The role will focus on developing proprietary investment tools aimed at processing large and diverse sets of data, requiring advanced programming skills, cross-platform integration, and the design and implementation of custom user interfaces. The role covers a diverse range of investment activities, including portfolio construction, custom strategy design, performance attribution, and pre- and post-trading analysis.

About the Internship program

Our 5-month Intern Program is dedicated to high potential candidates with student status, like you. From day one you will be exploring collaborative and dynamic environment company culture and you will receive:

• A structured learning and development program, specific job-related trainings, professional development and soft skills trainings

• A buddy who can offer you their experience, knowledge and guidance throughout your internship.

• Dedicated networking events for the Interns.

• Leadership and business-related sessions with Senior Management.

• Possibility to grow your professional network by joining an Employee Committees include.

• Professional Women’s Network, Pride, The Diversity, Disability & Ethnicity Network, ESEN, BeWell, Street Culture, Working Parents Group.

Internship program dates: 1st July 2025 – 31st November 2025

We are looking for candidates with student status who can work minimum 30 hours/week or full time (40 hours/week) and are interested to stay for permanent roles with us in the future.

You must be available to participate in the program in person, starting from day one and for its full duration.

What you will be responsible for

As Fixed Income Quantitative Developer you will:

• Develop and maintain technology-based investment tools and solutions to support the fixed income portfolio management process.

• Integrate quantitative techniques and complex financial models for securities evaluation, liquidity analysis, and risk evaluation.

• Design and implement custom user interfaces for proprietary investment tools.

• Process large and diverse sets of data using advanced programming skills.

• Collaborate with portfolio managers and quantitative analysts to develop and refine investment strategies.

• Conduct performance attribution and pre- and post-trading analysis to support investment decision-making.

What we value.

These skills, preferred qualification will help you succeed in this role

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).

• Good written and spoken English.

• Experience in Python and SQL.

• Knowledge of financial assets and market behaviour.

• Understanding of quantitative and statistical analysis, corporate finance, and portfolio management.

• Ability to work collaboratively with investment professionals to develop and implement quantitative tools and strategies

• Preferred experience in user interface design/development.

• Nice to have: Understanding of data structures and familiarity with libraries such as pandas, numpy, matplotlib, os, scipy, and streamlit.

Skill Development Opportunities.

• Being active member of Front Office Fixed Income team.

• Participating in investment related activities like quantitative research, strategy back-testing and market factor/signal creation.

• Developing coding skills in production environment including tools like Python, SQL, Spark, Databricks, Git/Bitbucket and Spark.

• Getting familiar with portfolio construction and optimization techniques.

• Applying technology in order to streamline research and investment related tasks.

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