Quant Trader – Alpha Discovery, Execution & Risk Ownership

Tradermath; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Pension plan

Enhanced annual leave

25 days annual leave

Catered meals

Private healthcare

Life assurance

On-site gym

Company events

Job summary

Maven Securities is seeking exceptional Quant Traders to join its expanding Quantitative Positional Trading Team. This full-time role focuses on statistical arbitrage and relative value position taking, with ownership of alpha generation and risk management across markets.

You will contribute to fair value generation, portfolio construction and alpha performance evaluation, with opportunities to lead desk evolution as strategies expand across asset classes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience in quantitative research or trading, prior derivatives desk preferred.
• Experience in portfolio construction is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate effectively in a fast moving team.

Responsibilities

• Active participation in trading and risk management of systematic strategies and discretionary decision making.
• Active participation in optimising and parametrising execution systems.
• Conduct research and backtests on potential alphas across the volatility surface, term structure, 0DTE, relative value and dispersion trades.
• Perform analysis into PnL attribution, market dynamics and changes in volatility surfaces.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, tech and quant teams to modelling and execution improvements.

Skills

Quantitative trading

Python

SQL

Portfolio construction

Risk ownership

Communication

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Maven Securities is seeking exceptional Quant Traders to join its expanding Quantitative Positional Trading Team. This full-time role focuses on statistical arbitrage and relative value position taking, with ownership of alpha generation and risk management across markets.

You will contribute to fair value generation, portfolio construction and alpha performance evaluation, with opportunities to lead desk evolution as strategies expand across asset classes.