Quantitative Trader, Central Trade Desk

Quant Blueprint LLC; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel Medical Insurance

Group Pension Scheme

Group Life Assurance

Paid Parental Leave

Commuter Benefits

Job summary

Quant Blueprint LLC in Amsterdam is seeking a Quantitative Risk Manager to join our Global Risk Management team. This role involves close collaboration with trading and technology teams to manage risks associated with trading strategies. The ideal candidate should have significant risk management experience and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

Key responsibilities include risk identification and mitigation, connecting market risk management globally, and utilizing technical capabilities to enhance risk processes. Benefits include travel medical insurance, group pension, and parental leave.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in risk management and/or trading.
• At least 3 years of relevant technical experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python with relevant packages required.

Responsibilities

• Identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate risks.
• Connect market risk management between regions.
• Drive global risk capabilities using technical skills.

Skills

Institutional risk management experience

Trading experience

Python programming

Data handling

Strong communication skills

Self-direction

Job description

As a Quantitative Risk Manager with a focus on Market Risk, you will be part of our Global Risk Management team. The department operates closely with trading and technology teams to manage the inherent risks in Jump's trading strategies across various exchanges. We are looking for someone who can bring risk management experience in addition to a critical, quantitative, and proactive hands‑on approach. This role requires both the nimbleness to quickly attack new business needs as well as the thoughtfulness to organize and deploy data, compute, visualization, and decision‑making workflows at scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with key stakeholders across our global business (e.g. trading teams, technology, treasury, clearing, business development, compliance).
• Identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate known and potential risks to the firm.
• Be a connector between market risk management in Asia and US.
• Use technical capabilities on a daily basis to drive both tactical and strategic global risk capabilities.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

• At least 5 years of institutional risk management and/or trading experience from a multi‑asset proprietary trading firm, multi‑strategy hedge fund, asset manager, or investment bank.
• At least 3 years of relevant technical experience required, but not necessarily in a fully technical role.
• Strong programming experience in Python along with common packages such as Pandas, Numpy, and Scipy required.
• Practical experience in working with data (whether daily or intraday).
• Direct experience in working with at least one financial asset class.
• Great written and verbal communication skills – good at ELI5.
• Self‑directed and able to take ownership of projects and responsibilities.
• Experience in having to learn something substantial from scratch while on the job.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in development within a distributed Linux environment.
• Experience with financial instrument modeling and/or empirical research.

Benefits include:

• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits