careers
Employees
FORT seeks creative, intelligent, self-aware and numerate colleagues who are curious about global financial markets and investing. Successful employees often have educational degrees in mathematics, computer science, and economics; advanced degrees and STEM backgrounds are not a prerequisite to employment. FORT’s diverse workforce includes people from around the world with extraordinary practical experience as well as extraordinary academic credentials, tied together by common interest in compounding for clients and working in a friendly but challenging environment that mixes individual and team achievement.
Culture
FORT is committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. The collective sum of the individual differences and life experiences of FORT’s employees is a valuable component of our culture, reputation, and achievements. Our goal is to bring together the best and the brightest in a dynamic environment that inspires high performance, innovation and welcomes diverse views.
What We Look for
Smart
Creative
Team-oriented
Effective communication skills
Self-motivated, can-do attitude
High level of ownership
Ability to prioritize and focus on multiple tasks
Ability to handle diverse, challenging assignments
What We offer
compensation and
bonus package
benefits plans and
paid time off
for work /
life balance
learning and
development
opportunities
Opportunities
Cloud Systems Engineer
Chevy Chase, MD
Data Scientist\Statistician
Chevy Chase, MD
Finance Associate
Chevy Chase, MD
Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing
Chevy Chase, MD
Software Engineer – Trading
Chevy Chase, MD
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Cloud Systems Engineer
Firm Overview
FORT is a hedge fund with $6 billion in AUM, located in metro Washington, DC and New York City. Founded in 1993, the firm develops and implements proprietary, fully automated, systematic trading strategies in global equity, rates, FX and commodity markets. The majority of the firm’s activity is over medium and long-term investment horizons based on a variety of fundamental and price data and using myriad quantitative and AI techniques.
Job Summary
The Cloud Systems Engineer will be a critical member of the IT Infrastructure Services department. S/He will be responsible for supporting FORT LP's private cloud infrastructure to ensure security, availability and stability within the FORT LP trading, accounting, end user computing and analytics platforms. This role will also seek opportunities to leverage public cloud services across the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS portfolio to optimize the FORT LP infrastructure. The ideal candidate:
- Practices the concept of Infrastructure as Code to drive the elimination of manual provisioning, self-documenting and
- Is a "jack of all trades", knowledgeable across multiple technical disciplines such as networking, systems management, database management.
- Has a history of taking concept and business results to technical steps to execute.
- Stays curious and up to date on infrastructure and platform technologies to drive operational efficiency.
- Has operated in a 24 x 7 environment with limited maintenance windows.
- Performs well under pressure.
Summary of essential job functions
- Administer, configure, maintain, monitor and support Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, MS Teams, Intune and SharePoint environments
- Monitor, administer and manage the health of business services running on-prem and SaaS based offerings.
- Ensure the operational health of the production, development and staging for Trading platforms, Accounting Systems and Data Analytics environments.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures related to data security, privacy and integrity, and monitors access policies, limiting access on a need-related basis.
- Provide End User Computing support for FORT LP staff in a VMware-based VDI and Windows environment.
- Aid in the migration and establishment of new End User and Business services in public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
- Be part of the rotation to support the monthly patching schedule.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose problems and quickly resolve to minimize application and end user downtime.
- Maintains knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in platforms and infrastructure technology.
- Design high-availability architecture and handle disaster recovery planning to achieve target RTO and RPO
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems administration in a Microsoft Windows ecosystem (Windows, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, etc).
- 5+ years of experience designing and supporting a fully virtualized dev, staging and production environment using VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V.
- 5+ years of experience working with block and file based storage.
- 3+ years of experience in supporting systems in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services
- 5+ years of experience using scripting language such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby or Perl
- 3+ years of writing code for one or more of the following configuration management platforms: Puppet, Chef, Ansible or Saltstack
- 4+ years of operational experience supporting a highly available production environment.
- 4+ years supporting a highly regulated and secure environment needing PCI, FIPS or HIPAA compliance
- 2+ years of experience with running containers and kubernetes in a production environment.
- Experience migrating to and managing cloud based infrastructure technologies.
- Has a history of leading and driving projects within the team or an outsourced partner.
- Strong knowledge of Active Directory and authentication. Set up and supported the configuration of SSO via SAML
- Strong understanding of DNS, Load Balancer, IDS/IPS, TCP/IP, L2/L3 networking and firewalls.
- Excellent detail orientation, communication and organizational skills.
- Has a history of working with team members of all skill levels such as in a technical support function or customer support on a technology product.
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively and algorithmically.
- Ability to work independently.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or technical field.
Preferred
- MCE, MCA, MCSE or MCSA certifications.
- Graduate degree in a technical discipline.
- Design and operating a software defined networking (SDN) and service mesh
- Experience with BI technologies such as PowerBI or Tableau to analyze data for reporting.
- Experience with Big Data databases and noSQL databases.
- Experience with Rubrik and Veeam backup technologies.
- Experience in a modern software development environment that is Agile and incorporates DevOps practices.
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Data Scientist\Statistician
Firm Overview
FORT is a hedge fund with $6 billion in AUM, located in metro Washington, DC and New York City. Founded in 1993, the firm develops and implements proprietary, fully automated, systematic trading strategies in global equity, rates, FX and commodity markets. The majority of the firm’s activity is over medium and long-term investment horizons based on a variety of fundamental and price data and using myriad quantitative and AI techniques.
Job Summary
The Data Scientist/Statistician is responsible for quantitative analysis of financial data; collecting and distilling rich research datasets from varied sources; and in depth analysis of data to aide and support FORT’s systematic investment programs.
Summary of essential job functions
- Collection, cleaning and normalization of structured and unstructured financial data into meaningful and high quality data.
- Define problem statement and design studies to identify most important aspects of data.
- Creative application of data preparation and data analysis skills to iteratively identify hidden facets of data.
- Presentation of research findings, recommendations and conclusions along with visual representation of results for wider consumption.
- Represent the team to key internal stakeholders while collaborating with the wider research unit and multidisciplinary teams.
- Contribute to the development of best practices, improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Translate high-level projects into technical tasks.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree; advanced degree preferred in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Engineering or a related field
- Strong academic background
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Fluency in one or more of the statistical programming languages: R, STATA, Python and SAS
- Working knowledge of one or more of the following programming languages: C, C++, C#, Python, and JAVA
- Aptitude in critical thinking and problem solving
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including an ability to translate statistical methods and findings for a non-technical audience
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, with limited supervision in a fast-paced environment
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Finance Associate
Firm Overview
FORT is a hedge fund with $6 billion in AUM, located in metro Washington, DC and New York City. Founded in 1993, the firm develops and implements proprietary, fully automated, systematic trading strategies in global equity, rates, FX and commodity markets. The majority of the firm’s activity is over medium and long-term investment horizons based on a variety of fundamental and price data and using myriad quantitative and AI techniques.
Job Summary
The Finance Associate contributes to the operations of the fund vehicles and oversees the management company accounting.
Summary of essential job functions
Management Company accounting responsibilities:
- Oversee monthly management company close
- Management of accounts payable
- Management of corporate expense and credit card reporting and record keeping
- Monthly update of financial forecast
- Management of accounts receivable, including invoicing process
- Management of annual corporate audits
- Reconciliation of managed account performance and fees
Fund operations responsibilities:
- Daily recording and reconciliation of capital activity flows
- Daily reconciliation of cash activity
- Daily review of administrator reports and reconciliations
- Management of fund invoicing process
- Monthly reconciliation of fund accrual balances
- Monthly and daily performance reporting and other ad hoc reporting
- Lead regulatory reporting effort (Form PF, AIFMD, etc.)
- Other special projects and ad hoc tasks as assigned
Minimum Requirements
- BS/MS in Accounting, Finance or related field
- 2+ years of public accounting or similar role preferably in the alternative investments space
- Microsoft Office suite including advanced excel skills (pivot tables and data manipulation) and basic understanding of Access or SQL databases
- Basic programming skills a plus (VBA, R, Python or similar language)
- Ability to work in autonomous environment
- Knowledge of Quickbooks or similar accounting packages a plus
- Excellent detail orientation, communication and organizational skill
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Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing
Firm Overview
FORT is a hedge fund with $6 billion in AUM, located in metro Washington, DC and New York City. Founded in 1993, the firm develops and implements proprietary, fully automated, systematic trading strategies in global equity, rates, FX and commodity markets. The majority of the firm’s activity is over medium and long-term investment horizons based on a variety of fundamental and price data and using myriad quantitative and AI techniques.
Job Summary
The Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing will lead all data efforts within FORT and will be responsible for setting vision and direction for the firm in regards to management, use, and acquisition of data. This includes building, maintaining and re-architecting applications that support FORT production trading and modeling systems and managing real-time streaming data and EOD market data across myriad asset classes. The role combines hands-on coding and problem solving with leadership skills including engagement of IT Development Staff and FORT Researchers. The position is a senior level role within FORT with exposure to all aspects of FORT’s business including clients.
Summary of essential job functions
- Provide 24/5 production support for data related applications.
- Provide visionary thought leadership in establishing a data governance process to ensure the highest quality data is stored within FORT’s systems.
- Understands the nuances and details of various types of market data (e.g. tick data, OHLC data, equity, bond, futures, FX, interest rate) and has an obsessive desire to ensuring high quality, error free data.
- Provide visionary thought leadership to improve current data processes by analyzing and rearchitecting legacy software and processes.
- Act as the steward and visionary thought leader to procure, normalize, cleanse, maintain and expose data sets to support all current and future research efforts, including strategy and execution research.
- Work with internal stakeholders (including CTO, trade operations, PRA, Research, software development team) to understand, analyze, prioritize, plan and execute projects and tasks successfully.
- Provide effective mentorship and management of direct reports to enable them to reach their full potential.
- Execute full lifecycle application development plans to include – requirements gathering and analysis, documentation, software architecture and design, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
- Respond quickly and efficiently to the changing needs of the organization as needs arise and change.
- Ensure high quality software releases by leading and espousing FORT’s software development process.
- Create and maintain software architectural documents for all data software applications.
- Clearly and effectively communicate and articulate ideas.
Minimum Requirements
- 10-15 years of experience in design and development, documentation and testing of applications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Strong experience with C#, Java, C++, or other modern object oriented programing language
- Strong aptitude for design patterns, object oriented principals, complex algorithms and data structures
- Experience in developing multithreaded programs
- Experience with network programming, IP protocols and message buses
- Expert knowledge of T-SQL, SQL Server or relational database design and development
- Experience in building distributed systems
- Experience in full lifecycle software development and agile development
- Experience in building and supporting highly available, mission critical systematic equities/futures trading systems is desirable
- Experience working with large time series, financial times series metrics (e.g., VaR, exposure, attribution)
- Experience with S&P Capital IQ Compustat database and Bloomberg API is a big plus.
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Software Engineer – Trading
Firm Overview
FORT is a hedge fund with $6 billion in AUM, located in metro Washington, DC and New York City. Founded in 1993, the firm develops and implements proprietary, fully automated, systematic trading strategies in global equity, rates, FX and commodity markets. The majority of the firm’s activity is over medium and long-term investment horizons based on a variety of fundamental and price data and using myriad quantitative and AI techniques.
Job Summary
The Trading team within the Software Development Group responsible for designing and building automated, algorithmic trading software used by FORT for portfolio management and trading. The trading software is one of the most critical and visible components of FORT, trading billions in AUM around the clock in multiple asset classes. The system is designed using an extensible architecture to adapt to new strategies. A highly reliable, low latency messaging system is used to communicate orders, fills and events in a loosely coupled manner. Key components of the system includes the order management system, execution management system, FIX connectivity and a highly reliable database.
This position is responsible for designing and developing various applications for our automated trading and in futures, equities markets and other markets. The ideal candidate will be a role model and take full ownership of development projects from inception to post production support.
This role involves significant hands-on development. It requires strong experience in an object oriented programming language (C#, C++, Java) and experience in multithreaded programming as well as network programming skills (TCP-IP, UDP, multicast, message buses). Expert knowledge of SQL Server is required.
Summary of essential job functions
- Design, develop, test and document trading applications to serve our growing hedge fund.
- Become an integral part of our technology team, understand existing business practices and proprietary software systems.
- Work closely with the trade desk to develop new software.
- Execute full lifecycle application development plans to include – requirements gathering and analysis, documentation, software architecture and design, implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
- Analysis of financial and time series data; Data munging and normalization for research and development efforts.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in design and development, documentation and testing of applications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- Experience with C#, Java, C++, or other modern object oriented language
- Strong aptitude for design patterns, object oriented principals, complex algorithms and data structures
- Experience in developing multithreaded programs
- Experience with network programming, IP protocols and message buses
- SQL Server or relational database design and development
- Experience in building distributed systems
- Experience in full lifecycle software development and agile development
- Experience in building and supporting highly available, mission critical systematic equities/futures trading systems is desirable
- Experience with S&P Capital IQ Compustat database and Bloomberg API is a big plus.
- Ability to read, understand and maintain legacy code bases
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate and articulate ideas
- Team player with the highest standards of integrity, honesty and mutual consideration
- Strong technical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to think creatively
- Keen interest in learning latest technologies and software development practices