Associate/VP - Cross Asset Analytics Developer - Quantitative Research - Investment Bank

You'll contribute to the firms product innovation, effective risk management, financial risk controls. Specially, you'll have the chance to:

- Develop Athena (Python) analytics software that is used to price and risk manage financial products;

- Design strategic, efficient, scalable and usable cross asset frameworks with the aim of establishing golden standards across all QR streams;

- Design and develop software frameworks for analytics and their delivery to systems and applications;

- Optimize code and business processes, providing expert guidance to desk-aligned quant teams in using frameworks;

- Support end user frameworks and, communicate with desk-aligned quant teams and technology groups;

About You

- You're passionate about software design and writing high quality code;

- You're interested in applying agile development practices in a front-office trading environment;

- You demonstrate quantitative and problem-solving skills;

- You demonstrate proficiency in object oriented programming and code design, with primary focus on Python;

- You quickly grasp business concepts outside immediate area of expertise and adapt to rapidly changing business needs;

- You think strategically and creatively when faced with problems and opportunities. You always look for new ways of doing things;

- You're attentive to detail and easily adaptable;

- Your excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, can engage and influence partners and stakeholders; You are good at communicating concepts and ideas, also via documentation, and you are keen to defend their validity and tailor messages to different audiences;

Desirables

- Graduate degree (Bachelors or equivalent) in Engineering, Computer Science, etc.

- Markets experience and general trading concepts and terminology is useful to be familiar with;

- Direct experience of agile software methodologies;

- Orientation towards careful system and solution design and implementation;

- Robust testing and verification practices;