Global Banking & Markets - Quantitative Engineering - Vice President - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
YOUR IMPACT
In SMM, platform developers, researchers and traders co-own the trading business. As a systematic trading group, we aim to leverage best-in-class technology and quantitative approaches to produce scalable and repeatable returns across the assets we trade, as well as innovation in how the division provides liquidity to our client franchise. We are looking for a core C++ platform developer in London or Bengaluru, with a passion for using technology to drive commercial results, to focus on building our equities systematic market making business. The team structure is designed to embrace hybrid skillsets across software development, quantitative research and trading.
GLOBAL MARKETS
Our core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.
Equities SMM is a systematic market making business covering European equities, equity futures and ETFs. SMM focuses on providing liquidity to clients, primarily via electronic channels, in equities, futures and ETFs. Our mission is to grow liquidity provision, increase innovation across the division, generate trading revenues, and run systematic trading and risk management strategies. As an automated trading business, SMM manages both the financial and operational risks trading revenues and aims to keep manual involvement or intervention to a minimum.
HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Basic Qualifications
* Developing a cutting-edge core platform for automated quoting, risk management and hedging algorithms for Equities SMM.
* Working with our algorithmic execution teams to ensure our connectivity and our liquidity provision to our client franchise continues to be best in class.
* Provide operational support for the trading system.
* Understanding the regulatory and supervisory environment and demonstrate ownership of our obligations and responsibilities under this.
* Strong academic background in Computer Science or an analytical field such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering.
* Strong software engineering background.
Preferred Qualifications
1. Strong experience building C++ / Java based systems in a Linux environment.
2. Relevant markets/securities/trading experience is a plus but not required.
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