Senior Quantitative Analyst - Trading Risk & Fraud

Traze; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Zeal Group, via its Traze subsidiary, seeks a Senior Quantitative Analyst to own the risk analytics backbone of the trading platform. This hands-on role requires building and maintaining systems detecting toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and abusive trading patterns, with end-to-end ownership from data extraction to production deployment.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on ML/data science experience in financial markets, strong Python skills, and a proactive, self-directed work style in a

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in quantitative/trading or FX/CFD brokerage risk analytics.
• Proven, production-grade tools or systems ownership.
• Evidence of end-to-end data science projects.
• Strong knowledge of financial trading products and execution mechanics.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Finance, or a related quantitative field.
• Comfortable working with high ownership and low supervision; proactive and self-directed.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend infrastructure, monitoring tools, and detection algorithms used to identify toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and abusive trading patterns.
• Use the systems you build to investigate trading and non-trading activity, detect suspicious behavior, and report findings.
• Analyze existing and new trading products and promotions for fraud/abuse exposure and propose mitigations.
• Classify clients to support A-book/B-book decisioning and profitable execution outcomes.
• Own end-to-end delivery: from raw data extraction and hypothesis testing through to production deployment of monitoring and alerting systems.
• Continuously identify gaps in current processes and design new logic to increase automation and reduce manual intervention.
• Mentor others on technical and analytical approaches as the function grows.

Skills

Python

Data science

Machine learning

Quantitative analysis

Risk analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Physics/Finance

Tools

SQL

Job description

Zeal Group is an award-winning global FinTech powerhouse with 700+ professionals across London, Europe, Asia, MENA, and South America. Through our subsidiary Traze, we deliver advanced multi-asset trading solutions across Gold, Oil, FX, Indices, and Cryptocurrencies, built for today's fast-moving, high-volatility markets.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Quantitative Analyst to own the technical and analytical backbone of our trading risk and fraud function. This is a hands‑on, individual-contributor role — not a management position. You will design, build, and maintain the systems that detect toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and abusive trading behavior, and you will use that technology yourself to investigate, classify, and act on risk. You'll report to the Head of Risk, working with a high degree of autonomy and minimal oversight. The ideal candidate must have hands‑on experience and strong foundation with machine learning and data science in financial markets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend infrastructure, monitoring tools, and detection algorithms used to identify toxic flow, latency arbitrage, and abusive trading patterns
• Use the systems you build to investigate trading and non‑trading activity, detect suspicious behavior, and report findings
• Analyze existing and new trading products and promotions for fraud/abuse exposure and propose mitigations
• Classify clients to support A‑book/B‑book decisioning and profitable execution outcomes
• Own end‑to‑end delivery: from raw data extraction and hypothesis testing through to production deployment of monitoring and alerting systems
• Continuously identify gaps in current processes and design new logic to increase automation and reduce manual intervention
• Mentor others on technical and analytical approaches as the function grows

Requirements

Must have

• 3+ years' experience in Quant/Trading OR FX/CFD brokerage environment, in a quantitative, risk, or analytics role
• Proficient experience with Python is mandatory.
• Demonstrated experience independently building and owning production‑grade tools, dashboards, or systems (not just using existing ones)
• Can provide evidence of data science related projects, ideally end‑to‑end driven projects.
• Strong knowledge of financial trading products, trading conditions, and execution mechanics
• Understanding of fraud/abuse patterns in trading (toxic flow, latency arbitrage, manipulation)
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Finance, or a related quantitative field
• Comfortable working with high ownership and low supervision; proactive and self‑directed

Preferred

• Experience with SQL.
• Experience or understanding of A/B‑book risk models, transaction cost analysis, or execution analytics
• Exposure to regulatory reporting (MAR, FCA, CySEC, ASIC)
• Track record of mentoring junior analysts

This role suits someone who wants to build something from the ground up and use it, not just analyze data others have prepared. If you're a quant who thinks in systems, takes initiative without being asked, and wants ownership over a real risk function — this is built for you.