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About the Role
Maven is rapidly expanding its Quantitative Positional Trading Team and is seeking a Trading Analyst to join this fast-growing unit. The desk is active across global options markets and has a key focus on fair value generation, portfolio construction, and alpha performance evaluation. We are looking for a Trading Analyst to research and improve both new and existing strategies, build and maintain scalable infrastructure, and attribute the performance of the desk.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research and backtests on potential alphas across the volatility surface, term structure, 0DTE, relative value and dispersion trades.
- Perform analysis of PnL attribution, market dynamics, and changes in volatility surfaces.
- Work directly with traders to prototype ideas, test hypotheses, and iterate on strategies.
- Take ownership of desk-owned infrastructure, ensuring the stability of trading systems that can operate 23 hours a day.
- Build systems that balance the trade-offs between optimal architecture and rapid iteration.
- Build dashboards to visualise analyses and help traders with discretionary strategies.
Requirements
- Strong Python and SQL.
- Strong and effective communication to allow for quick iteration in a fast-moving work environment.
- Interest in financial markets and derivatives.
- Experience in quantitative development or research, prior experience from derivatives desks preferred.
- Experience with portfolio construction.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD (or equivalent systems).
- Experience developing and maintaining production systems.
- Knowledge of other programming languages (C++, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript).
- Experience with AI tools for analysis, programming, or research.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Communication
- Quantitative development
- Quantitative research
- Derivatives
- Portfolio construction
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ArgoCD
- Production systems development
- C++
- C#
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- AI tools
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation package.
- Annual discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- Group pension plan.
- Enhanced annual leave allowance after 2+ years’ service.
- 25 days’ annual leave (plus public holidays).
- Fully catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks prepared by an in-house chef.
- Private healthcare and life assurance.
- On-site private gym with instructor-led classes including boxing.
About the Company
- Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies.
- Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives.
- Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.
- A fast-growing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact.