Senior Quant Developer - London, United Kingdom - Advantage Resourcing

Advantage Resourcing
Advantage Resourcing
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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Quant Developer

10 Month contract

Rates:
Negotiable

London, UK
Advantage Resourcing are seeking a
Senior Quant Developer to join a global energy business based in London, UK.

The Role

We need a self-reliant senior quant developer to work with analysts and quants from our trading desks to effectively leverage our Azure platform to build and productionise their models in line with best practice software engineering processes and architecturepatterns.


  • This is primarily a software engineering role, but also requires the ability to understand and code complex mathematical models to support trading decisions, with adaptive and agile skills._

A mathematical background is essential to be able to collaborate effectively with analysts and quants as well as strong foundations in core programming languages, ideally Python.

However, the primary focus of this role is leveraging modern cloud architecturesand software engineering practices for deploying data driven solutions and predictive models, and as such we would expect you to have deep expertise in technologies and practices such as Docker, Kubernetes, Spark/Databricks, Azure DevOps/Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD,Automated Testing, etc.


Key Roles & Responsibilities

  • Gain deep understanding of the model framework infrastructure and actively contribute to its' ongoing development
  • Design, develop and maintain ETLs, data pipelines as well as tools, libraries, and SDKs that facilitate the access to data
  • Coordinate closely with Analysts and Quants during development of models, acting as a technical support and coach them in tooling use, as they look to build new models
  • Work crossfunctionally with analyst and quants and other software engineers to continuously improve the framework and support the model lifecycle
  • With guidance, advocate and produce accurate, performant, scalable and maintainable code following all IT standards
  • Productionise models created by Analysts and Quants, ensuring robust day to day operation, monitoring and back testing are in place
  • Ensure that work aligns with the programme objectives for the model development and lifecycle framework.

Technical skills, Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

  • Background_
  • Degree level in computer science, engineering Mathematics / STEM, or a relevant field of applied mathematics
  • 5+ years work experience in a technical experience, with at least 2 years delivering stateoftheart modelling/algorithmic solutions.
  • Significant experience of Agile ways of working
  • Technical knowledge _
  • Practical experience with modern Python stack such as asyncio, fastapi, math stack: scikit learn, pandas, numpy, numba
  • Substantial expertise in Cloud services, ideally Azure
  • Good understanding of CI/CD and Test Automation, Git, ADO/Jenkins/Github.
  • Web development, web security
  • Ability to optimise performance of the Python code by using vectorization, parallel computing, or using C++ extensions.
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