eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President

Royal Bank of Scotland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Markets is seeking an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President to join our cross-asset electronic trading quant team, focusing on FX & Fixed Income trading automation. You’ll write and support production electronic trading algorithms and collaborate across Quant, Trading, Technology and Control.

You’ll work on high-level research into price construction, risk management, execution, and MI, as well as day-to-day improvements to system parameters.

Qualifications

• Strong programming and data analysis abilities.
• Experience with electronic/algorithmic trading.
• Interest in FX or FI.
• Good understanding of statistics and linear algebra.
• Experience with SDLC tooling such as Maven, Git and CI.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and testing algorithms that make up the bank's algo suite
• Performing tactical and strategic analysis to support the electronic trading businesses
• Designing, developing and maintaining pricing, spreading, risk management, execution models and algorithms used by the businesses
• Making sure that coding standards and procedures are implemented correctly
• Undertaking research and analysis across the electronic trading space
• Designing, building and testing algorithms for pricing, quoting and managing risk within the various supported markets
• Supporting the live production algorithms by liaising with trading and technology

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Python

Statistics & Linear Algebra

FX/FI experience

eTrading experience

Tools

Maven

Git

CI

Job description

Join us as an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President

We're looking for either an experienced Associate or junior Vice President to join our growing cross asset (FX & Fixed Income) electronic trading quant team, who enhance the bank's FX & FI automated electronic trading capabilities

You’ll be writing and supporting production electronic trading algorithms

You’ll have the chance to make key contributions to the wider electronic trading environment and collaborate with colleagues across Quant, Trading, Technology and Control

What you’ll do

As an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President, you’ll be working on projects ranging from high level research into optimal price construction, risk management, execution and the nature of the NatWest Markets client base, through to day-to-day improvements in MI and system parameter tuning.

• Designing, building and testing algorithms that make up the bank's algo suite
• Performing tactical and strategic analysis to support the electronic trading businesses
• Designing, developing and maintaining pricing, spreading, risk management, execution models and algorithms used by the businesses
• Making sure that coding standards and procedures are implemented correctly
• Undertaking research and analysis across the electronic trading space
• Designing, building and testing algorithms for pricing, quoting and managing risk within the various supported markets
• Supporting the live production algorithms by liaising with trading and technology

The skills you’ll need

To join us in this role, you’ll need a good understanding of computational and programming principles. You’ll need experience in data analysis, independent and collaborative research, problem solving and general programming. In addition, it would be ideal if you demonstrate an interest in electronic trading and either FX or FI.

We’d ideally like you to have some or all of the following:

• Programming in a typed language e.g. Java, C#, C++
• Programming experience in Python
• Electronic/algorithmic trading experience
• FX or FI experience
• Experience with common SDLC tooling, such as Maven, GIT and CI
• Proficiency in statistics and linear algebra

Hours 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 28/10/2026

Ways of Working: Office First