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About the Role
This is a hands-on, desk-facing technical support role within the Quants team, providing functional support for the Options trading system and related front office workflows. The role involves investigating daily issues, enhancing Python scripts, and supporting business-as-usual processes. You will support the trading desk and quantitative team in the UK from a Python coding perspective, understand system performance, and work within the trading system.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and monitor quantitative trading strategies
- Design, model, code and report on quantitative research using Python
- Analyse technical indicators and conduct correlation analysis
- Provide desk facing functional and technical support
- Investigate and help resolve trading system, workflow, configuration, data and user issues, escalating where appropriate support for the Options trading system and related Derivatives workflows
- Liaise with Technology and Trading teams to explain, implement and debug trading strategies on trading platform
- Develop, maintain and enhance tactical Python scripts, utilities and support tools used by the desk and the Quants team
- Back test and optimise trading strategies and system
- Support business as usual processes, including application checks, issue triage, incident follow ups, release validation and post release support
- Make controlled bug fixes and small enhancements to existing Python scripts and operational code under guidance from the Options Quants team
- Automate repetitive support tasks and improve operation
- Gather requirements from Front Office users and Business Operations and help shape practical workflow improvements
- Understand the trading floor environment and the need to respond quickly to issues that can cause business outages
- Create maintenance, support and reporting tools relevant to the product area as appropriate
- Work closely with Options traders, Quants, Business Operations and Technology, including London based stakeholders
Requirements
- A degree in quantitative finance, mathematics, computer science or equivalent disciplines.
- Experience in front office support with trading application support, production support, technical business analysis or a technical support role within financial markets
- Solid mathematical understanding of basic time series analysis (Linear regression, generalized linear regression, ARCH/GARCH process), stochastic process (wiener process) and statistics
- Must have experience working across trading systems and related technology platforms
- Strong Python scripting skills, with the ability to read, debug, adapt and enhance existing scripts and operational tools
- Strong functional understanding of trading systems and workflows
- Experience in supporting a trading system in a prior role, coupled with Python and quantitative skills
- Good quantitative and research skills
Skills
- Python scripting
- Quantitative analysis
- Time series analysis
- Stochastic process
- Statistics
- Trading systems support
- Front office support
- Technical business analysis
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Experienced Quantitative Analyst
Education Level
- Degree in quantitative finance, mathematics, computer science or equivalent disciplines
Benefits
- Birthday off
- Free annual charity day
- $0 trades for staff & family trading accounts
- Continuous learning and development offering
- Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub
- Retailer discounts
- Free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee
- Culture club activities
About the Company
- CMC Markets is a global leader in CFD trading and share investing.
- Company vision is providing the ultimate trading experience.
- Company is growing through global expansion and product offerings.
Equal Opportunity
- CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where our people feel confident to be themselves, feel valued and are able to do their best work.
- We don’t just value differences and unique perspectives, we seek them out and we invite them in, because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone.