Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Chief Technology Officeress (CTO)

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Quantitative Trading Systems

MONVEST develops mathematically grounded, systematic investment strategies for an institutionally oriented asset management platform. We are looking for a CTO who does not separate technology from financial markets but unites both in one person: someone who understands markets and builds the systems that trade them with their own hands.

Area of Responsibility

• Technology Strategy: Define and drive the technological direction of the platform, aligning it with the company’s institutional objectives.
• Development Oversight: Responsible for the development, programming, and continuous advancement of proprietary trading and investment systems from model design to productive, auditable implementation.
• Product Development: Shape, build, and evolve the company’s systematic investment products from concept to institutional readiness.
• Quantitative Pipeline: Build and maintain the quantitative pipeline across the entire process, including data preparation, signal generation, and validated decision-making.
• Risk Management Ownership: Manage position sizing, drawdown control, volatility control, and capital preservation as integral parts of the systems.
• Model Governance: Ensure rigorous backtesting, validation, and model governance, providing full traceability of all decisions.
• Architecture Development: Build a scalable technology, execution, and data architecture that meets institutional requirements for reporting, auditability, governance, and compliance.
• Team Leadership: Build and lead engineering and IT teams, establishing a high-performing technical organization.
• Corporate Leadership: Contribute to the strategic management of the company, advising executive management on product structure, AMC/mandate solutions, data architecture, and regulatory-compliant processes.
• Representation: Represent the company towards banks, institutional partners, and professional investors.

The Combination of Technology × Finance

This position thrives on bridging both worlds. A system is only as good as the market understanding behind it, and market understanding remains ineffective without clean technical execution. We are therefore seeking the rare combination of extensive institutional market experience and the ability to personally program models without losing translation between idea and implementation.

Requirements

• At least 25 years of experience in financial markets, institutional trading, quantitative analysis, or algorithmic trading.
• Demonstrable experience in developing proprietary trading algorithms and quantitative investment models.
• Strong, independent programming skills to implement financial, risk, and trading models.
• Solid experience in institutional trading, portfolio risk management, capital preservation, position sizing, volatility control, and drawdown management.
• Sound command of quantitative and statistical methods for market analysis.
• Understanding of wealth management, family offices, institutional allocators, HNWI structures, and professional investors.
• Experience engaging with banks, asset managers, wealth managers, and regulatory partners.
• Entrepreneurial leadership experience with the ability to transition a platform from a build-up phase to an institutional structure.
• Excellent command of English; proficiency in German is an advantage.
• Strong negotiation skills, integrity, polished presence, and willingness to work internationally.

Advantageous

• Experience in building or scaling a financial, technology, or investment company.
• Development of proprietary algorithmic trading systems.
• Trading institutional capital or collaborating with banks.
• Building risk frameworks, backtesting processes, model validation, and performance analytics.
• Experience with AMC structures, managed accounts, hedge-fund structures, or FINMA-adjacent setups.
• Capital raising with family offices and qualified investors.

Personal Qualities

• Analytical, disciplined, and numbers-driven.
• Technologically adept and hands-on in programming.
• Entrepreneurial, decisive, and resilient.
• Communicative, polished, and strong in representation.
• High integrity, trustworthy, and long-term oriented.

Objective of the Position

The CTO will play a pivotal role in building MONVEST technologically, quantitatively, and institutionally. You will take ownership of a scalable, rule-based asset management platform characterized by mathematically grounded strategies, transparent risk management, and institutional readiness. We seek an individual who excels in both disciplines.

Apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.