Global Banking and Markets - Quantitative Engineer - Associate United Kingdom · Associate

Global Banking and Markets
- Quantitative Engineer
- Associate
- London  London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Are you fascinated by high-paced algorithmic trading, data science and complex engineering systems? The Execution Solutions team sits at the heart of our European Electronic Trading business, working closely with clients, Sales, Trading, Engineering and Quantitative Research to improve our platform’s performance. As an Analyst/Associate in our dynamic team, you will work directly with some of the most sophisticated investors in the world like asset managers, hedge funds and systematic quant funds, helping them understand and improve how their trading strategies perform.

You will dig into large datasets, structured and unstructured, uncover hidden trends and turn them into actionable recommendations for clients to run live experiments on. You will also contribute to researching and publishing differentiated in-depth analysis of liquidity as European market structure evolves.

• Independently perform Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to monitor clients’ performance, identify improvements to existing products, present data-driven recommendations at client reviews and maintain clients’ technical setups and configurations.
• Know the ins and outs of our algorithms, trading systems and proprietary trading signals to showcase the value of our product offering.
• Improve and expand existing tooling for data analysis and trend detection as new needs and use cases arise, leveraging AI and our automation frameworks.
• Research how liquidity and market structure evolve across European markets, and turn that into thought-leadership content clients can rely on.

• A genuine interest in markets and equity electronic/algo trading – Europe a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to draw insights from large, raw datasets.
• Hands-on coding experience – KDB/q, Python or SQL preferred, but strong ability in any programming language is welcome.
• Ambitious, with excellent communication and team-working skills.
• Familiarity with business intelligence software Qlik View, Tableau or Power BI
• Prior exposure to TCA, European market microstructure or other electronic execution concepts.
• Backgrounds we welcome: finance, but also physics, maths, computer science or engineering.

• Familiarity with business intelligence software Qlik View, Tableau or Power BI
• Prior exposure to TCA, European market microstructure or other electronic execution concepts.
• Backgrounds we welcome: finance, but also physics, maths, computer science or engineering.

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel…