Quantitative Engineer, Trading and Client Controls (TaCC)

Deutsche Bank; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank in London seeks a Quantitative Engineer to drive the development of models aimed at fraud detection. This role involves implementing models, managing stakeholders, and enhancing a high-quality codebase. Candidates should have strong data science experience, excellent Python programming skills, and a good understanding of financial markets. The bank offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and extensive benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Competitive salary

30 days holiday

Life Assurance

Private Healthcare

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Relevant experience conducting data science or model development in a business setting.
• Demonstrated experience with data integration, ETL/ELT processes, and data quality assurance.
• Excellent programming skills, predominantly across the Python/Anaconda suite.
• Understanding of financial markets, risk, and project management.

Responsibilities

• Drive model implementation from prototype to production.
• Technical integration and migration of new data source systems.
• Develop platform reporting statistics to monitor model success.
• Engage key stakeholders to understand needs and requirements.
• Provide guidance on usage and technical proposals.

Skills

Data science/model development

Data integration

Python/Anaconda programming

Understanding financial markets

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification/work experience

Tools

Scikit-learn

Pandas

Numpy

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title Quantitative Engineer, Trading and Client Controls (TaCC)
Location London
Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.
The TaCC team sits within Deutsche Bank's GSA. With group-wide responsibility for model development, GSA takes a cross-business and cross-functional approach to solving complex quantitative encounters. The TaCC team has a global remit, across all products, businesses and regions in the Investment and Corporate Bank, to develop bespoke anomaly detection models. Our subject matter and datasets are complex, continually evolving.

You will be responsible for driving the development of our core models and controls to help identify fraud. As part of this, you will take ownership of a problem set, manage stakeholders, and drive growth of a high-quality code base.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Drive model implementation (from prototype to production), following rigorous coding, testing, and documentation best practice
• Drive the technical integration and migration of new, complex data source systems into our existing data pipelines and model ecosystems
• Develop and evolve platform reporting statistics/data to monitor ongoing model success
• Engage key stakeholders to understand needs and requirements
• Provide guidance on usage and translating needs for changes/ new models into technical proposals

Your skills and experience

• Relevant experience conducting data science or model development in a business setting
• Demonstrated experience with data integration, Extract, Transform Load(ETL)/Extract Load Transform (ELT) processes, and data quality assurance, especially involving new data source systems
• Educated to bachelor’s degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience
• Excellent programming skills, predominantly across the Python/Anaconda suite (Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy)
• Understanding financial markets, risk (for example, Know Your Client (KYC), anomaly detection/Machine Learning, project management
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner with various teams, and to be able to explain complex concepts effectively

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (for example, screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

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