Structuring Associate

Role Responsibilities:

• Enhance the research platform for existing or new trading strategies
• Gain knowledge of:
• Relevant backtesting systems
• Strategies and models developed by the Equity Digital Office team
• Work as a fully integrated member of the newly set-up Equity Digital Office within Global Markets
• Support senior team members in designing systems and strategies
• Provide timely response/escalation to support global business groups
• Analyse various data sources and design optimal retrieval and data quality solutions
• Design and develop both client-side and server-side components using best industry practices

Mindset and Skill Requirements:

Mandatory:

• Hands-on application development experience using Python
• Excellent problem-solving and design skills with event-driven, server-side distributed architecture
• Knowledge of finance and statistics
• Strong analytical skills
• Good written and oral communication
• Excellent organisational skills
• Enthusiastic about using technology to solve challenging problems
• Comfortable working with large databases/datasets
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Strong work ethics

Desired:

• CFA Level I preferred
• Good grasp of equity options/futures and trading lifecycle events related to equity products
• Experience with:
• KDB or other time-series databases
• Application profiling and performance tuning
• DevOps and Agile software development practices