How to Attract the Right Talent Pool to Automate Quant Trading

We have been putting together plans to introduce some automation Quant trading etc as part of the modulus operandi. To make this happen such that we can start automating some of our already successful discretionary trading strategies What would you advise us to pay strict attention to to attract the right talent pool? Especially if they are not necessarily traders or familiar with the trading space I mean, this is a really great question and it gets at kind of the transformation that the field is generally undergoing right now.