Electronic Trading

Our client, one of the leading Electronic Trading Groups in New York, would like to appoint an experienced quantitative technologist in the market data arena to join its proprietary trading effort.

This is an exciting group made up of quantitative traders, quantitative technologists and expert programmers. This group operates very much as a team and collectively shares ownership of a short and longer term frequency proprietary trading book. The majority of their trading is focused on the high frequency US equity domain. Increasingly, the group has become involved and is growing its efforts in the longer horizon US equity and short term FX space.

This is a research led and team spirited group. The group works cohesively in developing new solutions to some of the hardest quantitative trading problems. With a team of experienced quantitative traders, quantitative technologists and expert programmers, the team has enjoyed the skill set and market experience to collectively to advance the group into one of the better teams on the street.

Market Data

Market data and the manner in which it is assimilated into the groups work and trading systems is an absolute priority for and mission-critical ingredient for its success.

As a quantitative technologist with an expertise in the market data function of a successful trading group, you will play a critical role in the success of this team.

You will work very closely with the Head of the desk, quantitative traders and software engineers in ensuring that the market data set up is "best of class". That, at no point in the life-cycle of automated trading (alpha generation, back-testing and deployment) is the team compromised in terms of the quality of data, data tools and applications.

Experience

Most likely, you will be educated to MS and or PhD level in Computer Science or other technical field.

Whilst the thrust of your experience will be on the technology side, you will have a deep interest and ability in Mathematics and Finance.

You must have at least 2 years experience as a quantitative technologist focused on market data within a leading trading group. Experience from and automated trading environment and dealing with massive data sets and multiple data sources is desirable.

Extremely strong scripting (Perl, AWK, BASH) and Programming skills (C++/Java) are essential.

To apply:

Contact

If you find this group and role of interest, kindly contact Tom Singh or his assistant in his London office on +44 (0)20 3178 5678 and or submit your profile to him on t.singh@maven-search.com .

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