FX Options Electronic Trading Architect & Product Owner

HSBC Holdings plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

HSBC Holdings plc in London seeks an experienced FX Options Electronic Trading Quant & Product Owner to own the roadmap and delivery of electronic trading tooling, including pricing, volatility marking, and backtesting infrastructure.

This hands-on role requires strong stakeholder leadership and the ability to prototype solutions in Python/C++, validate them against live market behaviour, and drive end-to-end delivery across Trading, Quant and Technology teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in FX electronic trading or related derivatives.
• Strong mathematical background and ability to translate problems into quantitative/engineering work.
• Experience delivering end-to-end production changes with ownership and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for FX Options electronic trading tooling, balancing trader demand, P&L impact, technical feasibility, and strategic direction.
• Define and deliver electronic pricing and execution capabilities across volatility surface construction and automated marking, streaming/RFQ pricing for vanilla and exotics, and exchange-listed FX options execution (e.g., CME).
• Prototype and validate models and decision logic (primarily in Python) to de-risk delivery, resolve ambiguous requirements with data, and partner with core Quant on model development and validation.
• Build backtesting and analytics capability to assess strategy performance and support evidence-based enhancement prioritisation.
• Lead end-to-end delivery and operational ownership, including requirements, testing/UAT, rollout, post-release support, issue investigation, and contributing to controls/monitoring and broader e-trading architecture.
• Identify and implement AI/ML-driven workflow improvements that enhance trader experience and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Skills

FX Options trading

Quant/PO capacity

Python/C++ prototyping

Stakeholder management

Tools

Python

C++

Job description

HSBC Holdings plc in London seeks an experienced FX Options Electronic Trading Quant & Product Owner to own the roadmap and delivery of electronic trading tooling, including pricing, volatility marking, and backtesting infrastructure.

This hands-on role requires strong stakeholder leadership and the ability to prototype solutions in Python/C++, validate them against live market behaviour, and drive end-to-end delivery across Trading, Quant and Technology teams.