Your Team Responsibilities
OneMSCI R&D; Quality & Architecture is a newly established cross-functional organization within R&D;, created to drive consistent quality standards (especially from quantitative finance perspective) , modular architecture, and AI-first workflows across MSCI’s product lines.
As a Senior Associate, you will play a key role in operationalizing this mandate by supporting the implementation of analytical validation frameworks, promoting modular design principles, and enabling the adoption of AI-driven workflows. The role requires close collaboration with research, engineering, and platform teams to ensure scalable, consistent, and high-quality product development.
Your Key Responsibilities
Quality & Validation
Execute and support cross-product validation frameworks from the business / financial logic perspective.
Identify quality gaps and recommend improvements aligned with firm-wide standards
Ensure AI-driven workflows meet defined quality thresholds
Architecture & Modularity
Support implementation of modular architecture principles across products




Identify reuse opportunities across platforms to reduce duplication
Contribute to design and architecture reviews for recent initiatives
AI Workflow Enablement
Assist in defining and implementing best practices for AI-driven workflows (e.g., agents, automation, pipelines)
Evaluate new AI use cases against established standards and governance models
Support initiatives to transition manual processes into AI-enabled workflows
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner with product ,engineering and R&D; teams
Ensure consistent application of standards across business lines
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM), quantitative finance, Investment analysis and Index management, or any other highly quantitative subject.
5-9 years of experience in quantitative profile in Finance. Knowledge of Indices is a plus.
Some exp

📌 Data Science-Index Quant Specialist (Mumbai)
🏢 MSCI
📍 Mumbai