eFX Quant Analyst – VP

Overview

Senior leadership role in London to help scale State Street’s eFX market-making by owning production trading algorithms, mentoring quants, and driving research from prototype to deployment. You will work closely with trading, technology, and risk teams to improve pricing and risk models, shaping the strategic direction of the eFX platform. The role combines hands-on model development with people management in a low-latency, high-stakes trading environment. You will influence growth, innovation, and risk management in the FX business through technical leadership and collaboration.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible work-life support
• paid volunteer days
• vibrant employee networks
• inclusive development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Own a significant portfolio of electronic price-making and risk management algorithms
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of quants, setting objectives and technical direction
• Use public and proprietary data to identify new opportunities to generate P&L
• Drive research from prototype through to production, including backtesting, deployment and monitoring
• Analyse the behavior of production trading models and implement improvements
• Partner with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure robust, well-governed models in a low-latency environment

Key requirements

• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining production quantitative trading systems
• Experience leading, line-managing or mentoring a technical or quantitative team
• Ability to complement technical high-frequency analysis with market insight and experience
• Proficiency in a fast prototyping language, ideally Python (or Matlab, R or similar)
• Working knowledge of an industrial-scale language such as Java or C++ (a plus)
• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline, such as engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics or similar; PhD preferred

• collaborative, team-driven
• creative problem-solving
• integrity and speed in delivering results
• Python
• Java
• C++

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