Securities, Equity Derivatives Automation Strats, Analyst/Associate, London

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Job Summary & Responsibilities

BUSINESS UNIT OVERVIEW
Equity Derivatives Automation Strats are a team of engineers working with the equity derivatives businesses at Goldman Sachs to automate the key decisions taken every day.  Our team has a wide remit including automatic trade pricing, optimizing hedging for derivatives portfolios and developing algorithms to trade on derivatives exchanges.  We also deploy statistical analysis techniques and mathematical models to improve the decisions we make both automatically and manually.  We partner with traders and salespeople to improve the profitability of our equity derivatives franchise.

YOUR IMPACT
We are looking for an experienced developer to join our desk strats team and work on our electronic RFQ platform.  The role involves working on the post-trade part of the system, which includes trade booking and reporting across for all the Equity Derivatives products we trade.  We are looking for candidates with experience of trade booking and position management systems coupled with strong business knowledge to drive the expansion of our RFQ platform to cover the complete Equity Derivatives product set.  The successful candidate will sit on the trading floor, working closely with traders and salespeople who use the system every day.  They will be a key member of the team automating our RFQ processes, including through automatic pricing and hedging of trades.

This is a rare opportunity to join a successful trading desk and shape the future direction of our RFQ platform as a key member of the team implementing our automation strategy.

OUR IMPACT
The securities division’s core value is building strong relationships with our institutional clients, which include corporations, financial service providers, and fund managers. We help them buy and sell financial products on exchanges around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design, develop and support highly reliable systems across a range of technologies in a fast-moving environment
• Take ownership of our electronic RFQ capabilities, interacting with technical teams at vendors, clients and internally
• Work with trading, sales, technology and other teams as part of project work and support responsibilities

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• Strong programming skills in an OO or functional paradigm (for example Java/C++/Python/Scala/Haskell).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to master new technologies and business concepts quickly
• Strong interest in learning about financial products and markets

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the equity derivatives market
• Familiar with automated testing and test-driven development concepts

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