Project Manager - Quants/Front Office

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment bank in London is seeking an Agile Delivery Lead / Quants Project Manager to support their Quants Development team in delivering complex quant and risk projects. This hybrid role combines project management skills with strong technical understanding of derivatives and front-office workflows, allowing the successful candidate to engage closely with various stakeholders while managing project timelines effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience in front-office project delivery.
• Confident interfacing with traders, quants, dev, and support.
• Strong proficiency in Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of project tracking and delivery.
• Run Jira-based workflows and maintain delivery visibility.
• Coordinate across teams for streamlined delivery.

Skills

Agile project delivery

Jira

Confluence

Excel

Python

C++

C#

Derivatives products knowledge

Stakeholder management

Tools

Calypso

Murex

Job description

Job Description

City based Investment Bank are seeking anAgile Delivery Lead / Quants Project Managerto work within theirQuants Developmentteam supporting Fixed Income and cross assets analytics. This is a Hands-on role for someone with a strong delivery mindset, front-office projects experience and enough technical understanding to efficiency manage complex quant and risk projects.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 4 days in the London office. It’s an initial 6-12 month contract with a strong possibility of converting to FTC.

SKILLS:With solid experience in Front Office builds, you must have:

• Solid Agile project delivery, ideally within front-office environments.




• Strong proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Agile methodologies.




• Some exposure to Excel / Python tooling, one either C++ / C#




• Excellent understanding of:Derivatives products (Swaps, Futures, Options, etc), cross assets; Fixed Income e-trading workflows including pricing, quoting, hedging and execution; P&L, Greeks, sensitivities, risk explain processes & Quant libraries
  




• Familiarity with front-to-back trading systems: eg Calypso, Murex or in-house systems.




• Trade lifecycle knowledge: pricing, booking, trade capture, risk.




• Excellent stakeholder management: confident interfacing with traders, quants, dev and support

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take ownership of project and delivery tracking, working closely with quants and trading.




• Run Jira-based workflows (e.g Kanban), organize epics, prioritize work and maintain delivery visibility.




• Follow up on production and support issues-triage, escalate and drive toward a permanent resolution.




• Filter, structure, an clarify trader or stakeholder request before they hit the Engineering teams backlog.




• Coordinate across teams (quant, desk, dev, infra, support) to streamline delivery and improve efficiency.




• Support integration of models and tools across risk and pricing infrastructure.




• Manage platform migrations of legacy pricing and risk analytics.

Please send your CV for the attention of ALISON CALDER