Senior Quantitative Analyst - Trading Risk & Fraud Systems

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, 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