eFX Quant Analyst - VP

Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrable experience building or maintaining production quantitative trading systems
• Experience leading, line-managing or mentoring a technical or quantitative team
• The ability to complement technical high-frequency analysis with market insight and experience
• Proficiency in a fast prototyping language, ideally Python or similar
• Working knowledge of an industrial-scale language such as Java or C++ is a plus
• Experience with agentic coding tools and AI coding assistants is a plus
• Postgraduate degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, statistics, mathematics, physics or similar; PhD preferred

Responsibilities:

• Own a significant portfolio of algorithms for electronic price making and risk management
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of quants, setting objectives and technical direction and supporting their professional growth
• Use public and proprietary data to identify new opportunities to generate P&L
• Drive research from prototype through to production, including backtesting, deployment and monitoring
• Analyse the behaviour of production trading models on an ongoing basis, identifying and delivering areas of improvement
• Partner with trading, technology and risk stakeholders to ensure models are robust, well-governed and effective in a low-latency environment

Technologies:

• AI
• ARM
• Support
• Java
• Python
• Matlab

More:

We are State Street, and our electronic foreign exchange offering is a core component of our product range, making markets directly with counterparties, on exchanges and e-trading venues around the globe. We have sustained significant growth by expanding our market making, algorithmic and benchmark execution capabilities. We are hiring an experienced VP-level eFX professional in London to help sustain the continued growth of our business and shape the strategic direction of our market-making platform. This role sits within State Street Markets, our investment research and trading arm, and focuses on improving the electronic pricing and risk-management models used in our FX business. We offer a successful, innovative and supportive team, with the opportunity for people-management responsibilities for the right candidate. We are committed to an inclusive environment and offer development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks. Location: London, England. Type: Full time.

last updated 37 week of 2026