Global Banking and Markets - Quantitative Engineer - Associate - London

Goldman Sachs Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs Group is seeking an Associate Quantitative Engineer in London to join the Execution Solutions team within Global Banking and Markets. You will work on algorithmic trading, data science, and complex engineering systems, collaborating with Sales, Trading, Engineering, and Quantitative Research to optimize platform performance.

You will analyze large data sets, develop capital-efficient strategies, and publish insightful analyses on liquidity and market structure.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and ability to draw insights from large, raw datasets.
• Hands-on coding experience in KDB/q, Python or SQL preferred.

Responsibilities

• Independently perform Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to monitor clients’ performance and provide data-driven recommendations.
• Know the ins and outs of algorithms, trading systems and proprietary trading signals to showcase product value.
• Improve and expand tooling for data analysis and trend detection, leveraging AI and automation frameworks.
• Research liquidity and market structure evolution across European markets and produce thought-leadership content.

Skills

KDB/q

Python

SQL

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Finance knowledge

Tools

QlikView

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Global Banking and Markets - Quantitative Engineer - Associate - London

Job Description

Job Summary

Are you fascinated by high-paced algorithmic trading, data science and complex engineering systems? The Execution Solutions team sits at the heart of our European Electronic Trading business, working closely with clients, Sales, Trading, Engineering and Quantitative Research to improve our platform’s performance. As an Analyst/Associate in our dynamic team, you will work directly with some of the most sophisticated investors in the world like asset managers, hedge funds and systematic quant funds, helping them understand and improve how their trading strategies perform. You will dig into large datasets, structured and unstructured, uncover hidden trends and turn them into actionable recommendations for clients to run live experiments on. You will also contribute to researching and publishing differentiated in-depth analysis of liquidity as European market structure evolves.

Job Responsibilities

• Independently perform Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) to monitor clients’ performance, identify improvements to existing products, present data-driven recommendations at client reviews and maintain clients’ technical setups and configurations.
• Know the ins and outs of our algorithms, trading systems and proprietary trading signals to showcase the value of our product offering.
• Improve and expand existing tooling for data analysis and trend detection as new needs and use cases arise, leveraging AI and our automation frameworks.
• Research how liquidity and market structure evolve across European markets, and turn that into thought-leadership content clients can rely on.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• A genuine interest in markets and equity electronic/algo trading – Europe a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to draw insights from large, raw datasets.
• Hands‑on coding experience – KDB/q, Python or SQL preferred, but strong ability in any programming language is welcome.
• Ambitious, with excellent communication and team‑working skills.
• Familiarity with business intelligence software QlikView, Tableau or Power BI
• Prior exposure to TCA, European market microstructure or other electronic execution concepts.
• Backgrounds we welcome: finance, but also physics, maths, computer science or engineering.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Familiarity with business intelligence software QlikView, Tableau or Power BI
• Prior exposure to TCA, European market microstructure or other electronic execution concepts.
• Backgrounds we welcome: finance, but also physics, maths, computer science or engineering.

Job Info

• Job Identification 184165
• Job Category Associate
• Posting Date 09/23/2026, 04:06 PM
• Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Healthcare & Medical Services

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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