VP, eFX Alpha Quant Trader

State Street Corporation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corporation is seeking an eFX Alpha Quant Trader to develop and deploy systematic trading strategies across spot FX and NDF, with potential expansion into other instruments. You will contribute to alpha research, build production-ready research, and evaluate model performance in live trading environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration within a mature alpha team, advanced machine learning techniques, and the rapid translation of ideas into production workflows.

Qualifications

• Post-graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics, or similar)
• Experience of a fast prototyping language such as Python (preferably), or Matlab, R, etc.
• Working knowledge of an industrial scale language such as Java or C++ is a plus

Responsibilities

• Create profitable and robust trading signals, strategies, and models to make a significant contribution to P&L targets and eFX growth
• Use public and proprietary data, identify new opportunities to generate P&L
• Develop research all the way from prototype to production
• Analyze the behaviors of production trading models on an on-going basis, looking for areas of improvement

Skills

Machine learning

Quantitative analysis

Python

Java/C++

Education

Post-graduate degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Matlab

R

Job description

State Street Corporation is seeking an eFX Alpha Quant Trader to develop and deploy systematic trading strategies across spot FX and NDF, with potential expansion into other instruments. You will contribute to alpha research, build production-ready research, and evaluate model performance in live trading environments.

The role emphasizes collaboration within a mature alpha team, advanced machine learning techniques, and the rapid translation of ideas into production workflows.