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TIAA

Quant Trader, Direct Indexing

TIAA

. Execute equity orders across markets using quantitative and algorithmic trading techniques .

Posted 10/7/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $162,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
PythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Execute equity orders across markets using quantitative and algorithmic trading techniques
  • Monitor market conditions, liquidity, transaction costs, and execution performance to optimize trade outcomes
  • Operate daily trade workflow, including reconciliation, execution, allocations, and confirmations
  • Investigate and resolve trade issues; execute corrections and cancels; identify root causes and partner with brokers and custodians to prevent recurrence
  • Analyze trading data to improve execution quality, reduce market impact, and strengthen operational controls
  • Develop and maintain quantitative models, analytics, and dashboards for execution performance, broker algorithms, and market impact
  • Monitor settlement, fails, and corporate actions, coordinating with operations and counterparties
  • Partner with technology teams to improve automation, data pipelines, and trade processing infrastructure
  • Collaborate with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers on portfolio construction and trade implementation
  • Maintain awareness of regulatory requirements, settlement timelines, market structure developments, and industry best practices
  • Contribute to innovation across systematic and quantitative trading initiatives

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • University (Degree) Required
  • Minimum of 3+ years of trading, execution analytics, trading operations, or portfolio management experience
  • 1+ year of equity trading experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Excel and SQL
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science, Engineering (preferred)
  • Understanding of equity market structure, execution algorithms and transaction cost analysis
  • Experience with pre-trade and post-trade analysis
  • Familiarity with equity trade lifecycle, corporate actions, settlement, and reconciliation processes
  • Familiarity with order management (OMS) and execution management (EMS) systems
  • Familiarity with custodian and counterparty workflows and processes
  • Experience working with market data, order data, and large datasets
  • Experience with margin and cash management
  • Experience with portfolio optimization and analytics
  • Sedentary work

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Superior retirement program
  • Highly competitive health offerings
  • Wellness offerings
  • Work life offerings
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards package
  • Accessibility support for online application process
  • Reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities
  • Drug-free and smoke-free workplace