E-Trading Quantitative Developer

Overview

6 month rolling contract - Inside IR35 - Investment Banking

Responsibilities

• Advanced level professional accountable for providing excellence as an eFIC Trading Quant Developer within Global markets. The roleholder will, for example:
• Deliver the quartz Core roadmap
• Define the next effort required by the continuing need to improve the platform
• Define and deliver the monitoring tools of the platform so as to track the performance of the platform (in general and in real time)
• Identify critical data among Global Markets and define clear principles around critical data management to ensure they are fully traceable and not corrupted along the Front-to-Finance chain
• Build and promote a truly cross asset research and development framework
• Work with management to draw up specifications for new projects and estimate the costs involved in their implementation
• Continuously identifies, proposes and implements innovative or alternative ideas ahead of others to improve topics or solve issues or problems that are multidisciplinary or cross-organisational, to improve the customer journey or the organisation, to develop new businesses or thought models.
• Actively promotes the market and Quantitative Development outside of the Bank to key stakeholders.
• Makes sure the core platform release process is performed effectively.
• Directs some projects within the department, such as exchange interactivity and on-boarding, responding to any issues or developments within relevant aspects of work.
• Influences and supports members of the team by leading in decision making and approach where problems are more complex and require sophisticated analysis or experience. Acts as a point of escalation for more junior staff.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

• Professional qualification, Masters or PhD in computing science and expert knowledge in e-trading quantitative development within Global Markets.
• Strong technical background in e-trading quantitative development, particularly programming experience in an industrial context, within Global Markets.
• Proactively able to identify areas of development, improvement or ways to maximise results and takes initiative to implement relevant actions, in the short and long term.
• Strong relationship management skills and an ability to work with individuals to ensure the delivery of set objectives.
• Proven communication / relationship management skills.
• Computer literate and a good understanding of relevant software used by the eFIC team at the relevant time. Expert knowledge of a computer language (Java) and analysis tool (Python).

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