eFX Quant Analyst - VP

State Street Bank; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer days

Flexible work-life support

Employee networks

Job summary

State Street Bank in London is seeking a VP-level eFX professional to lead a quantitative trading team, shaping pricing and risk models in a low-latency FX environment.

You will own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management, mentoring quants and setting technical direction.

Collaborate with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust and well-governed, with backtesting, deployment and monitoring throughout production.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining production quantitative trading systems.
• Experience leading, line-managing, or mentoring a technical or quantitative team.
• The ability to complement technical high-frequency analysis with market insight and experience.
• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics or similar; PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of quants, setting objectives and technical direction.
• Use public and proprietary data to identify new opportunities to generate P&L.
• Drive research from prototype through to production, including backtesting, deployment and monitoring.
• Analyse the behaviour of production trading models on an ongoing basis, identifying and delivering areas of improvement.
• Partner with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust, well-governed and effective in a low-latency environment.

Skills

Trading systems

Team leadership

Market insight

Python

Java

C++

AI tools

Education

Postgraduate degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Java

Python

MATLAB

AI tools

ARM

Job description

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining production quantitative trading systems
• Experience leading, line-managing or mentoring a technical or quantitative team
• The ability to complement technical high-frequency analysis with market insight and experience
• Proficiency in a fast prototyping language, ideally Python or similar
• Working knowledge of an industrial-scale language such as Java or C++ is a plus
• Experience with agentic coding tools and AI coding assistants is a plus
• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics or similar; PhD preferred

Responsibilities

• Own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of quants, setting objectives and technical direction and supporting their professional growth
• Use public and proprietary data to identify new opportunities to generate P&L
• Drive research from prototype through to production, including backtesting, deployment and monitoring
• Analyse the behaviour of production trading models on an ongoing basis, identifying and delivering areas of improvement
• Partner with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust, well-governed and effective in a low-latency environment

Technologies

• AI
• ARM
• Support
• Java
• Python
• Matlab

More

We are State Street, and our electronic foreign exchange offering is a core component of our product range, making markets directly with counterparties, on exchanges and e-trading venues around the globe. We have sustained significant growth by expanding our market making, algorithmic and benchmark execution capabilities. We are hiring an experienced VP-level eFX professional in London to help sustain the continued growth of our business and shape the strategic direction of our market-making platform. This role sits within State Street Markets, our investment research and trading arm, and focuses on improving the electronic pricing and risk-management models used in our FX business. We offer a successful, innovative and supportive team, with the opportunity for people-management responsibilities for the right candidate. We are committed to an inclusive environment and offer development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks. Location: London, England. Type: Full time.

last updated 37 week of 2026