Credit Automated Trading Strat / Desk Strat - Fixed Income - Vice President

Responsibilities

• Use modern analytical tools and LLMs to improve models, speed up development, and idea generation across the desk.
• Influence daily trading decisions and how algo signals are used through analysis of desk performance, profitability, market conditions, and risk.
• Develop and maintain desk and algo facing tools and reporting for P&L, market share, risk, client activity, and trading performance.
• Analyze competitive behavior, market structure, client flow, and trading trends to identify opportunities to improve desk performance and win share.
• Support the desk’s expansion into new products, venues, and markets.

Qualifications

• 3-7 years of experience in a strat role.
• Excellent communicator who can work effectively with traders, strats, and technologists.
• Master’s degree in quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, economics, or a related field.
• Experience applying modern technologies, including AI, to real problems, with sound judgment on where they add value.
• Strong Python skills. Familiarity with Q/Kdb+, Scala or Java is beneficial.
• Good understanding of credit markets, bonds, ETFs and derivatives.
• Strong analytical foundation in statistics, data analysis, and problem solving. ML knowledge is preferred.
• Able to turn ambiguous business questions into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.
• Good sense of humor.