Principal Solutions Engineer - PreSales and PostSales - Axioma

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

Why this role is important to us

SimCorp is currently seeking a qualified experienced professional to join our Product Specialist team as a full-time employee, based in our UAE office to support our expansion in the region on Axioma products. The ideal candidate for this role is a motivated quantitative professional seeking an exciting and diverse role working with investment professionals.

What you will be responsible for:

• Establish relationships with clients, and understand their system usage and special implementation requirements to manage and deliver analytics solutions fit to client use cases and secure high retention rates.
• Resolve complex client portfolio issues and become a subject matter expert on Axioma risk analytics products across asset classes.
• Ownership and execution of client onboarding and training.
• Work with prospective clients to showcase and position the value of Axioma Analytics Solutions contributing to growth in Europe.
• Coordinate in-house efforts aimed at enhancing client satisfaction.
• Interact with quantitative research, operations and product teams as required.
• Use extensive knowledge of client issues/needs to identify opportunities for business and product development.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives.

What we value:

Most importantly, you can see yourself contributing and thriving in the position described above. How you gained the skills needed for doing that is less important. We expect you to be good at several of the following and be able to - and interested in - learning the rest.

• Degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Econometrics, or Engineering. CFA, FRM, CAIA designations.
• 5+ years of experience in quantitative finance in a similar role/industry.
• Solid knowledge of risk modelling techniques and risk analytics across asset classes.
• Solid understanding of pricing models relevant to various financial instruments such as CDS, IRS and FX Derivatives.
• Experience with usage and interpretation of granular and factor risk models.
• Ability to articulate complex concepts and methodologies to end users with varying backgrounds and levels of experience.
• Experience with portfolio optimization and performance attribution systems.
• Understanding of the use of APIs/web services.
• Basic programming data manipulation skills in SQL, Excel, Python, Java, C#.
• Great oral and written communication skills in English. French is also a good to have language for this position.
• High problem-solving and execution skills.

Benefits

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp, we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide an extensive work-life balance and opportunities for professional development: there is never just one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take. The role allows for flexibility including the option to work from home up to 3 days a week.

Next steps

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

For any questions you are welcome to contact Azeta GUITI, Lead Talent Acquisition Partner. If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 4,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds in general.

SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients.

SimCorp is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.