Delta One Risk Lead — Front-Office Quant & Tech Partner

IMC Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid leave

Insurance

Job summary

IMC Trading in Chicago is seeking an Experienced Risk Manager to join the Risk team. You will work closely with traders and engineers to identify, monitor, and manage risk across Delta One and other products, shaping the firm's risk framework and supporting trading decisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration, quantitative analysis, and the development of risk methodologies and tools using Python, with exposure to market, credit, capital, and operational risk.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in financial risk management or related front-office risk.
• Experience supporting exchange-traded products such as equities, ETFs, futures, or other linear products.
• Familiarity with Delta One trading strategies.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, risk analytics, or automation.
• Working knowledge of SQL is preferred.
• FINRA SIE and Series 57, or willingness to obtain them after joining IMC.

Responsibilities

• Partner with traders to identify, monitor, and manage risk across trading strategies.
• Monitor and analyze market, credit, capital, and operational risks across IMC's portfolios.
• Develop risk methodologies for equities, ETFs, futures, and other exchange-traded instruments.
• Analyze concentration risk, tail-event exposures, and other portfolio-level risks to improve visibility.
• Build risk tools, reporting, and monitoring frameworks using Python.
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve risk infrastructure and automation.
• Work with traders to evaluate new strategies and markets with proper risk controls.
• Challenge processes and propose frameworks that improve how IMC understands and manages risk.

Skills

Financial risk management

Delta One familiarity

Analytical thinking

Communication

Autonomy

Collaboration

FINRA SIE

Series 57

Python

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

IMC Trading in Chicago is seeking an Experienced Risk Manager to join the Risk team. You will work closely with traders and engineers to identify, monitor, and manage risk across Delta One and other products, shaping the firm's risk framework and supporting trading decisions.

The role emphasizes collaboration, quantitative analysis, and the development of risk methodologies and tools using Python, with exposure to market, credit, capital, and operational risk.