Quantitative Strategist - Credit

Standard Chartered; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fair Pay Charter & competitive salary

Flexible working options (home/office)

Learning & development programs

Job summary

Standard Chartered is seeking a quantitative strategist for the Credit Trading Quant team in London. You will develop analytics and tools that support front office trading, working closely with traders to translate desk requirements into production-ready products.

The role focuses on applying statistical and machine learning techniques to large data sets to improve e-trading performance. The ideal candidate will have strong Python skills, some Java, and a deep understanding of credit markets and

Qualifications

• Proven experience developing quantitative analytics and models in front office/trading environments.
• Strong Python skills with some Java knowledge.
• Ability to apply statistical and machine learning methods to large, complex datasets.
• Translate insights into scalable, production-ready tools for trading performance.
• Understand credit markets and fixed income products; exposure to e-trading workflows (pricing, risk analytics, RFQ).

Responsibilities

• Initiate and develop analytics and tooling for Credit Trading.
• Partner with front office traders to deliver production-ready analytical products.
• Contribute to e-Trading platform components like pricing, risk and RFQ tooling.
• Deploy models and tools with rigorous testing and governance.
• Lead delivery from concept to production with cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Python

Java

Statistical analysis

Machine learning

Front office trading

Tools

KDB+

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a quantitative strategist to join our Credit Trading Quant team, which works in the front office, delivering technological solutions for Credit Trading into production.

The team owns the analytics and e-trading roadmap for credit trading in partnership with desk heads, with accountability for prioritisation, delivery, and realised business impact. We develop the foundational platform and analytics that enable performant e-trading for credit flow. We research systematic trading ideas that predict the future of financial markets, applying scientific techniques to find patterns in large, noisy and rapidly changing real-world data sets. We develop and deploy those ideas into production to positively impact targeted e-trading metrics. The team also provides analytics and tooling to the whole of Credit Trading. Our tools help drive efficiency, increase revenue and make processes more robust. They can be delivered as dashboarding, web apps, scheduled jobs, APIs and more.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Initiate and develop the analytics and tooling that serves the whole of Credit Trading.
• Partner with front office traders to understand desk requirements and translate them into flexible, production-ready analytical products with rapid turnaround on new modules and configurations.
• Contribute to our capabilities across all components of our e-Trading platform including fair value engines, portfolio and risk management engines, client segmentation and RFQ response.
• Deploy analytical techniques as appropriate ranging from statistical analysis to modern machine learning.
• Take ownership of their projects from inception to final delivery. This will require effective engagement and coordination with many teams including Trading, KDB, QA, Dev Ops, PSS, and the second line.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Improve Credit Flow trading metrics such as response rates, hit-rates, market share and PnL through the expansion and improvement of our e-Trading platform.
• Improve Credit Trading performance through the delivery of analytics, tools, dashboards and applications that enable enhanced efficiency, revenue and RoRWA.

Business

• Partner with front office traders to understand desk requirements and translate them into flexible, production-ready analytical products with rapid turnaround on new modules and configurations.
• Support business growth by ensuring components of the e-Trading platform are made available to line traders to improve metrics across all of Credit Flow.

Processes

• Target best practice in code quality, environment management, and cross-team integration.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations amongst colleagues and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure active communication of vision, priorities, and progress to the business to foster engagement, awareness, and motivation.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement and sharing best practice.

Risk Management

• Proactively identify, elevate, and mitigate operational and model risks, including ensuring that analytical tools are appropriately registered as Deterministic Quantitative Methods (DQMs) or models in line with Group standards.
• Apply rigorous testing and quality assurance processes — including UAT cycles and cross-team QA reviews — before deploying models, dashboards and pricing tools to production.

Our Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will bring proven experience in developing quantitative analytics and models within a front office or trading environment, with strong proficiency in Python and some knowledge of Java. They will demonstrate the ability to apply statistical and machine learning techniques to large, complex datasets, translating insights into scalable, production-ready tools that drive trading performance. The candidate will understand credit markets and fixed income products, alongside some exposure to e-trading workflows such as pricing, risk analytics, and RFQ optimisation. They will be comfortable partnering closely with traders and cross-functional teams, showing strong ownership of delivery from concept through to production, while maintaining high standards around testing, governance, and robustness.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.