Head of Research & Trading Platform Architecture

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading quantitative finance firm in Greater London is seeking a strategic technical leader for their Quantitative Research and Trading Architecture team. You will provide both strategic direction and leadership, ensuring the development of robust architectural frameworks that support innovative trading and research solutions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in architecture, deep technical knowledge, and the ability to collaborate effectively within high-performance environments. This role offers competitive compensation along with significant benefits.

Benefits

Highly competitive compensation

30 days annual leave

Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance

9% company pension contributions

Cycle-to-work scheme

Monthly company events

Qualifications

• Extensive architecture experience in quantify finance or similar environments.
• Deep understanding of HPC clusters and GPU/accelerator environments.
• Experience with quant development toolchains and model-deployment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Quantitative Research and Trading Architecture team.
• Provide strategic direction for architecture supporting quantitative research.
• Work closely with architects to ensure architectural cohesion across the firm.

Skills

Architecture experience in quantitative finance

Understanding of research and trading technology stacks

Data-engineering pipelines knowledge

Experience with low-latency architecture

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Job description

About Us

We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ we unite world‑class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution – because the best ideas take time to evolve. Together we’re building a world‑class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

The role

Leading the Quantitative Research and Trading Architecture team

• Providing strategic direction and day‑to‑day leadership for the architecture team supporting quantitative research data engineering model lifecycle and client trading platforms
• Owning and evolving the end‑to‑end architectural blueprint for the quant domain ensuring it enables low‑latency execution, scalable research environments and robust production systems

Collaborating with engineering and quant teams

• Partnering closely with Engineering Tech Leads, Quant Developers and Research Engineering teams to build and deliver aligned technology roadmaps
• Ensuring short‑term delivery remains consistent with longer‑term architectural goals across research infrastructure, data platforms, model deployment and client trading systems

Driving innovation in research and trading tooling

• Fostering a culture of technical innovation, experimentation and continuous improvement within the architecture team
• Identifying and adopting emerging technologies across high‑performance computing, cloud, data engineering, model‑lifecycle tooling and low‑latency infrastructure that improve research velocity, model robustness and outcomes

Ensuring architectural cohesion across the firm

• Working closely with architects across infrastructure, security, data and application domains to align on architectural patterns, platforms and standards
• Designing for interoperability across research, trading, risk and operational systems, promoting a cohesive and extensible technology ecosystem

Shaping the firm’s broader technology agenda

• Collaborating with the CTO, Chief Architect and wider Technology leadership group to influence and implement firm‑wide architectural strategy
• Translating emerging business and quantitative needs into cross‑cutting technical initiatives that enhance the firm’s long‑term research capabilities

Who are we looking for

We’re looking for a strategic technical thinker with an exceptional understanding of quantitative workflows. You’ll have a passion for innovation, a commitment to driving measurable improvements and be comfortable navigating high‑ambiguity and high‑performance environments.

Ideal candidate skills and experience

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Extensive architecture experience within quantitative finance, electronic trading, systematic investing or similar complex compute‑intensive environments
• Deep understanding of research and trading technology stacks, such as HPC clusters and GPU/accelerator environments
• Data‑engineering pipelines for large‑scale market and alternative datasets
• Quant development toolchains, research platforms and model‑deployment workflows
• Low‑latency or real‑time architecture experience
• Proven ability to lead and develop architecture teams supporting front‑office or quant functions
• Strong collaboration, communication and stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to influence senior engineering, research and business leaders
• Experience balancing long‑term architectural vision with day‑to‑day realities of fast‑moving quant environments

Why join us

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (via Just Eat for Business) and a dedicated barista bar
• 30 days annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme
• Monthly company events

G‑Research is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideas‑driven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.

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