Quant Strategy Role - BFSI

About the client:

- Company Name: Banking Domain

- Industries: Banking / Financial Services / Broking, Investment Banking / Venture Capital / Private Equity

- Company Type: Forbes Global 2000

- Headquarter Location: Mumbai

- Nature of Offering: Other

- Founding Year: 1900

- No of Employees: 10000+

Setup an industrial grade data science platform to enhance FO's analytic capabilities:

- With multiple user access interfaces

- With connectivity to internal as well as open source quant libraries and simulation systems

- With pre-built data pipelines to internal as well vendor sources

- Work in close collaboration with FX, FI & Equities Quants to extend the existing cross-asset python library

- Provide data-based solutions based to business for MI, pricing etc.

The Opportunity :

Impact on the Business/Function :

- Reduced logistical efforts while prototyping and delivery

- Reduced deviation between research simulations and production

- Enhanced analytical and reporting capabilities

- Timely completion of projects with minimal supervision and defects

- Positive feedback from business

Customers / Stakeholders :

- User onboarding and suggestion of innovative ways to utilize with the platform for effective problem solving

- Complete, intuitive and updated documentation

- Code review assistance for releasing EUC on the platform

- Alignment with SLAs

- Positive feedback from users

Operational Effectiveness & Control :

- Build the infrastructure and capabilities needed to enable operational effectiveness and delivery of the desired results

- Adhere to developmental best practices and ensure code reuse

- Participate in peer reviews of code

- Maintain comprehensive documentation of work/workflow

- Proven process or functionality improvement

- Increasingly reduced efforts in servicing users

- Reduced bugs in production releases

What you'll do:

Qualifications :

- Bachelors / Masters / PhD Degree in a quantitative discipline i.e., Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or a related discipline preferably from premier institutes like IIT, IISc, BITS, NIT etc.

- Demonstrable Python expertise with 4+ years of experience (in a banking environment) with knowledge of at least one Python web framework ideally Flask.

- Basic understanding of front-end web technologies i.e., HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

- Has been involved in the end-to-end development process, turning stakeholder requirements into software, and successful release to production. Knowledge and experience of git, CI/CD tools is integral to the role.

- Candidates with knowledge/experience of cloud based setups (esp GCP) would be preferred and any progress towards CFA/FRM would be seen favorably.