Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst/ London/ $ High | London, UK

Eka Finance; London; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An award-winning hedge fund in London seeks an experienced Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst. This role focuses on developing systematic trading models, alpha generation, and continual improvement of trading strategies. Candidates must have a strong quantitative background and significant experience in FX or futures trading, as well as proficiency in Python programming.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in quantitative trading, especially in FX or futures.
• Extensive experience in macro and FX strategy development with futures.
• Confident in Python programming for quantitative analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop systematic trading models across FX and futures.
• Generate alpha ideas, backtest, and implement strategies.
• Evaluate new datasets and optimize portfolios.

Skills

Quantitative trading

Alpha research

Portfolio construction

Data exploration

Feature engineering

Python coding

Education

PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or related

Job description

Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst/ London/ $ High

Senior Quant Macro Quant Analyst/ London/ $ High

Eka Finance London, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 3 days ago Permanent $Base + Bonus

Award winning hedge fund in London are looking to add a quantitative researcher with prior experience working on alpha generating strategies in the systematic macro space, using futures. They have recently hired a senior quant and are looking to further expand their quant research team.

Role:-

• Develop systematic trading models across FX, futures.
• Alpha idea generation, backtesting, and implementation
• Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments
• Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
• Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization

Requirements:-

• 4+ years of experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures
• PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline.
• Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization
• Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals
• Extensive experience in systematic macro and FX strategy development, using futures.
• Experience working on/building medium/high frequency systematic strategies
• Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering
• Experience managing and running risk is a strong plus.
• Confident Python coder

Apply:- Please send a PDF resume to [e-mail]

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