VP, Quant Trading Strategies — Equity Execution Algorithms

Nomura; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Nomura in London seeks a Vice President to lead the research, design, and implementation of next-generation equity execution algorithms for global markets. You will advance smart order routing and low-latency strategies with strong ML and statistical modelling.

Responsibilities include building production-grade systems, backtesting frameworks, and collaborating with traders, risk, product, and technology teams to deliver high-performance trading solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in CS, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
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• 5+ years in trading or real-time algorithm development in a financial institution.
• 3+ years in R&D of agency execution algorithms, smart order routing, liquidity seeking, market making, or high-frequency strategies.
• Deep expertise in equity market microstructure, order book dynamics, and execution strategies.
• Strong knowledge of stochastic calculus and statistical modelling.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R; Java desirable.
• Experience with numerical libraries and optimisation frameworks.
• Q/KDB or time-series databases desirable.
• Proven track record of developing and deploying production trading algorithms.
• Experience with machine learning applications in trading.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and compliance frameworks (MiFID II, Reg NMS, best execution).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Low-latency, high-performance computing experience (preferred).
• Experience with C++ for performance-critical components (preferred).
• Knowledge of distributed systems and concurrent programming (preferred).
• Publications or patents in algorithmic trading or market microstructure (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead research and design of next-generation equity execution algorithms.
• Lead research initiatives on equity market microstructure and venue behavior.
• Develop and optimize low-latency, high-throughput algorithms for best execution.
• Build and maintain backtesting frameworks and performance analytics tools.
• Collaborate with traders, risk, product, sales, and technology teams on new product development.
• Mentor junior team members and provide technical guidance.
• Ensure regulatory compliance with Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Audit teams.
• Drive continuous improvement of execution quality and algorithm performance.
• Lead product development initiatives from concept to production deployment.

Skills

Quantitative research

Algorithm development

Low-latency systems

Machine learning

Python

C++

KDB/Q

Backtesting

Education

MS/PhD in CS or related field

Tools

Python

R

C++

Q/KDB

Backtesting frameworks

Job description

Nomura in London seeks a Vice President to lead the research, design, and implementation of next-generation equity execution algorithms for global markets. You will advance smart order routing and low-latency strategies with strong ML and statistical modelling.

Responsibilities include building production-grade systems, backtesting frameworks, and collaborating with traders, risk, product, and technology teams to deliver high-performance trading solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance.