Junior Quant, Equity Derivatives
CITIC Securities·London·United Kingdom·Hedge Fund & Quant
CITIC Securities is hiring a Junior Quant, Equity Derivatives in London. Posted 2026-05-07; applications close 2026-07-06.
Role details
Position Description
The Equity Derivatives Junior Quant plays a key role in designing and innovating our Equity Derivative library, building a resilient risk/pricing infrastructure in collaboration with IT, and developing advanced tools for volatility fitting and dividend marking. The role supports daily trading applications, develops trading tools, and collaborates with global teams.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Support Equity Derivatives D1 business for overseas offices.
- Build market and reference data pipelines, including ETL and storage solutions.
- Develop pricing tools and maintain daily risk and P&L analysis.
- Build trading tools and provide technical support to Equity Derivative sales teams overseas.
- Collaborate with global quantitative teams on the quant library and cross-border quant projects.
- Design and innovate the Equity Derivative library and related components.
- Work with IT to build a resilient risk and pricing infrastructure.
- Support daily trading applications and resolve production issues arising from trading, risk, or operations.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience with large datasets, storage systems, ETL pipelines, and data analysis workflows.
- Strong Python (3.12+) skills with solid grounding in object-oriented programming, design patterns, and modern Python tooling.
- Experience building Python-based dashboards (for example Dash, Plotly, Streamlit, Panel, Bokeh).
- Hands-on experience with Airflow or equivalent workflow orchestration tools.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including testing, version control, and documentation best practices.
- Familiarity with quantitative finance, trading systems, or research workflows.
- Experience with time series databases or working with financial data vendors.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and solve problems arising from trading, risk, and operations.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and proactive.
- Fluent in spoken and written English.
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