Quantitative Strategist in London

Job Description:

Job Title Quantitative Strategist

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank's businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

You will be joining the Platform Engineering team, which delivers an information security compliant environment for the bulk of the Strat application space. This includes software development in Python, C++ and Google Cloud Computing (GCP) Infrastructure as Code as well as liaison with Non-Financial-Risk officers and platform System Administrators.

These environments run large scale real time and batch computation and are critical to meet the commitments of the business to both clients and regulators. You will also work closely with the Software Development Life Cycle group to provide the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) build environment for the larger Strat software development team.

What we'll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That's why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days' volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Implement and improve the run-time environment and enhance its regulatory compliance and robustness whilst minimising outages
• Designing and deploying changes to balancing cost-efficiency and resource provision. This includes facilitating the split between the load processed on-premises with that dispatched to GCP
• Improve the integration of the Strats application stack with information security and application governance functions of the Bank
• Contribute to the London hours coverage of the production third-line support rota
• Work in partnership with Trading, Structuring, Methodology, Technology and Operations to support the build-out of the Strat platforms

Your skills and experience

• Excellent computing and programming skills with experience using C++ core and Python
• Experience of DevOps tooling with an interest in improving automation and reducing the non-project overheads associated with delivery of software changes to production
• Experience of infrastructure and database technologies such as Unix or My Structured Query Language. GCP experience would also be an advantage
• Educated to Bachelor's degree level or equivalent qualification/relevant work experience
• Able to multi-task different projects and ability to prioritise tasks against tight deadlines
• Experience within Banking or Finance and an understanding of the processing requirements of cash and derivatives financial products

How we'll support you

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities' employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (for example. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

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