IT Strategist

Industry: Banking

Position Purpose

The IT Strategist is responsible for providing a full-suite of technology solutions to the trading desk. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring that the trading technology platform remains best in class within the industry.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Develop and implement efficient automated tools to translate quant traders' strategies into orders.
• Design features to help traders monitor and analyse strategy behaviour in production.
• Ensure adequate monitoring of risks and positions.
• Proactively manage the production platform by:
• Leveraging software engineering to eliminate operational work via automation.
• Optimising system architecture to maintain operational efficiency.
• Conducting thorough but blameless post-mortems to guide platform evolution.

• Develop and maintain an expansive library of automatons and alpha models.
• Develop and maintain monitoring and production tools used in the trading platform.
• Develop and maintain simulation tools and back-testing environments to validate strategies.
• Enforce adequate risk filters for each automaton to prevent abnormal behaviour.
• Organise and monitor the orderly production of automatons during trading hours.
• Monitor, investigate, and improve trading strategy performance.
• Contribute to the research and design of optimal setups for each set of strategies.
• Coordinate and test infrastructure changes with IT and Production teams.
• Ensure all developments satisfy local regulations.

  Technical and Behavioural Competencies / Qualifications

  Required Competencies
• Expertise in C++ (C++11 onwards) and relevant toolkits.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in developing/supporting trading platforms.
• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure.
• Strong technical and problem-solving (troubleshooting) skills.
• Excellent oral communication skills.

Relevant Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field involving programming, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in supporting applications in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Familiarity with Python or scripting languages.