Efx Quant Trader

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom UBS Full time
United Kingdom

  • Quantitative Analysis, Trading
  • Investment Bank

Job Reference #

BR

City

  • London

Job Type

  • Full Time

Your role

  • Is curiosity part of your DNA? Do you have a passion for extracting information out of data? Our goal is to use analytical competences for optimizing a growing electronic FX Trading offering.
  • This role involves working within the quant team to build analytics and alerting tools for existing trading models as well as exploring ML/AI approaches to build trading strategies to optimise the business

Responsibilities:

  • Generating ideas for enhancements to our current and planned FX trading system. Developing these models in software packages such as python and then implementing the live code in java.
  • Maintaining a regular cycle of measuring, monitoring, and improving the performance of the FX aspects of our live trading system.

Your Career Comeback

Your team
- eFX Quant Trading is a growing team within our Principal Electronic Trading business based in London. All quant traders across principal electronic trading design systematic trading strategies, run statistical analysis on data and are involved in the productionisation of the strategies within our trading systems.

Your expertise

  • Masters in Natural Science, Mathematics, Data
- or Process Design, or similar education

  • 13 years of prior experience in systematic trading beneficial
  • Experience in machine learning methods is an advantage
  • Kaggle Master and above (or similar) qualification in public AI/ML platforms
  • Strong programming skills in R or Python
  • An attention to detail and are keen to contribute in a fastpaced trading environment
  • Complexity is a challenge and not a problem for you
  • Analytical flair, high quality awareness, interdisciplinary working style
  • LI-GB

About us

  • UBS is the world's largest and the only truly global wealth manager.

We operate through four business divisions:
Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors.

  • We have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries.

Join us

  • At UBS, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like parttime, jobsharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purposeled culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.
  • From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills, we know that great work is never done alone. We know that it's our people, with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests, who drive our ongoing success. Together we're more than ourselves. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact?

Disclaimer / Policy Statements

  • UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.

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