Job Title: Quantitative Strategist Senior Analyst

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Description:

- The Quantitative Strategist (Quant Strat) bridges advanced quantitative research with practical implementation across both front-office and second-line functions.

- Depending on the team, this role may sit within Trading, Treasury, Finance, or Risk Management with primary stakeholders typically being the Infrastructure functions.

- The Quant Strategist is instrumental in shaping the financial and risk architecture of the bank, with work output having a measurable impact on the financial performance and capital efficiency of the relevant division.

Work includes:

- Design and implement quantitative models and analytics that support risk management, funding strategies, valuation control, and capital optimization.

- Develop production-grade software and tools that integrate seamlessly into the firm's strategic platforms (e.g., Kannon), enabling real-time pricing, risk, and P&L analytics.

- Collaborate with stakeholders across Trading, Treasury, Finance, and Risk to ensure models and tools are aligned with business objectives and regulatory expectations.

- Contribute to the development of control frameworks, including Independent Price Verification (IPV), Prudent Valuation (PruVal), and Fair Value Reserve methodologies.

What we'll offer you:

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you'll enjoy:

- Best in class leave policy

- Gender neutral parental leaves

- 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)

- Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education

- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members

- Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents

- Accident and Term life Insurance

- Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities:

- Logical reasoning and problem solving

- Proven ability to manage different stakeholders

- Proven ability to multi-task and meet sometimes aggressive deadlines

- Ability to articulate issues in a structured manner, and undertake root cause analysis of problem areas

- Strong analytical/problem solving skills

- Willing to take ownership and work independently with minimal supervision.

- Experience in interpreting regulatory guidelines would be an advantage

- Knowledge of basic project management methodologies, covering both waterfall and agile domains with the latter preferred.

Your skills and experience:

Technical skills:

- Intermediate to advanced knowledge in data science, big data tools and infrastructural components - Hadoop / Python/PySpark.

- Expertise in SQL and Python, including work with complex queries across large transactional datasets.

- Experience of working in cloud environments, and big data platforms and related technologies e.g., AWS, GCP, Snowflake, HDFS, Apache Spark, Big Query.

- Experience in Threshold tuning and segmentation of AML detection rules for transaction monitoring, adapting to risk typologies relevant for the bank.

- Practical coding experience in Python and supporting infrastructure (e.g. ML / NLP libraries)

- Practical knowledge and experience in R or familiarity with complex statistical techniques used in big data projects

- Experience in version control in big data- Bitbucket or similar.

- Prior experience in cloud-based ecosystems such as Cloudera.

- Perform advanced analytics on structured and semi-structured payment data, incorporating transaction metadata, behavior patterns, and alert feedback loops.

- Advanced knowledge and practical experience in working with MS Excel and office automation tools in general, covering large datasets.

- Specifically, experience in pivoting, VBA and advanced MS Excel data analysis functionality would be significantly advantageous

- Working knowledge and practical experience in enterprise Transaction Monitoring systems.

- The ideal candidate should have worked with TM systems in a support, implementation or consultancy role, specifically around the configuration capabilities of enterprise class TM systems

- Prior experience with TM systems such as Oracle FCCM / Mantas, Smaragd, Detica or Actimize, will be a distinct advantage

- Prior exposure to the banking / financial services industries in domain areas such as Transaction Banking / Cash Management / Wealth Management / Anti Money Laundering / Transaction Monitoring role will be an advantage

- Prior working experience in core banking systems payments systems and infrastructure such as SWIFT will be beneficial

- Basic knowledge of basic project management methodologies, covering both waterfall and agile domains with the latter preferred.

Communication and Reasoning skills:

- Strong communication skills both written and oral via various media i.e. e-mail, phone, face to face and conference calls

- Good communication skills to communicate at all levels - Country and Regional AFC teams, stakeholder management across multiple Operations Units and relevant parties in DBOI.

Generic skills:

The ideal candidate will display a strong work ethic and adhere to the following broad guidelines / requirements:

- Adopt an intensely data driven approach in all technical analysis tasks assigned

- Keep track on various MI to ensure adherence to SLA's

- Contribute to responses involving internal and external / regulatory audit response initiatives and participate in remediation exercises as appropriate

- Generate quality code output with detailed unit testing

- Be amenable to working in a high-pressure and time-sensitive environment.

- Take responsibility for rational prioritisation of tasks and ensure adherence to timelines for completion of activities

- Ensure structured upward and downward communication. Contribute to relevant reporting requirements

- Work closely with regional and central AFC modelling teams to ensure alignment on tasks and responsibilities

- Adhere strictly to the bank's data privacy standards

- Strong adherence to AFC compliance and governance standards at all times

How we'll support you:

- Training and development to help you excel in your career

- Coaching and support from experts in your team

- A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

- A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams:

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html