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Algorithmic Trading Data Analyst/Engineer

Quanta Search · New York, NY · 13 mo ago
Information TechnologyFull-time

About the role

The ideal candidate will be a highly analytical, motivated, and self-driven data engineer with a strong background in designing and constructing highly scalable and flexible data management systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build, enhance, and maintain a 35 TB historical database that grows by about 200 GB every day.
  • Closely collaborate with quantitative researchers to build/improve the necessary databases and services for their research.
  • Work closely with the sales and other client-facing teams to provide analytical solutions to their questions about execution performance.
  • Act as a mentor to other team members and coach them on best practices and engineering standards.
  • Occasionally troubleshoot production issues when they occur.

Requirements

  • Experience working with large financial datasets like market data, order/execution data, or positions data.
  • Experience with data analysis using languages such as KDB+/Q, R, Python/Pandas.
  • Comfortable with mathematical concepts such as regression techniques, and statistical analysis.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive attitude to own issues and solve them.
  • Excellent team-player and communication skills.

Desired

  • Experience with algorithmic execution and TCA especially in the futures/cash treasuries market.
  • Familiarity with distributed trading systems/parallel computing.
  • Proficiency with C++, REST APIs, and UI technologies/frameworks such as Node.JS, Angular.

Benefits

Commensurate with experience.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Skills

Not specified

Qualifications

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