VP eFX Quant — Lead Production Trading & AI-Driven Pricing

State Street Bank; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid volunteer days

Flexible work-life support

Employee networks

Job summary

State Street Bank in London is seeking a VP-level eFX professional to lead a quantitative trading team, shaping pricing and risk models in a low-latency FX environment.

You will own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management, mentoring quants and setting technical direction.

Collaborate with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust and well-governed, with backtesting, deployment and monitoring throughout production.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining production quantitative trading systems.
• Experience leading, line-managing, or mentoring a technical or quantitative team.
• The ability to complement technical high-frequency analysis with market insight and experience.
• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics or similar; PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of quants, setting objectives and technical direction.
• Use public and proprietary data to identify new opportunities to generate P&L.
• Drive research from prototype through to production, including backtesting, deployment and monitoring.
• Analyse the behaviour of production trading models on an ongoing basis, identifying and delivering areas of improvement.
• Partner with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust, well-governed and effective in a low-latency environment.

Skills

Trading systems

Team leadership

Market insight

Python

Java

C++

AI tools

Education

Postgraduate degree in quantitative discipline

Tools

Java

Python

MATLAB

AI tools

ARM

Job description

State Street Bank in London is seeking a VP-level eFX professional to lead a quantitative trading team, shaping pricing and risk models in a low-latency FX environment.

You will own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management, mentoring quants and setting technical direction.

Collaborate with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust and well-governed, with backtesting, deployment and monitoring throughout production.