eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President
NatWest Group is hiring an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President in London, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on NatWest Group.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions Java, C and Python among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- NatWest Group has 74 other open roles on Level.
- Posted within the past two weeks.
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Design, build, and support production electronic trading algorithms for FX and Fixed Income as a quantitative associate or VP.
Join us as an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President
- We’re looking for either an experienced Associate or junior Vice President to join our growing cross asset (FX & Fixed Income) electronic trading quant team, who enhance the bank’s FX & FI automated electronic trading capabilities
- You’ll be writing and supporting production electronic trading algorithms
- You’ll have the chance to make key contributions to the wider electronic trading environment and collaborate with colleagues across Quant, Trading, Technology and Control
What you'll do
As an eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President, you’ll be working on projects ranging from high level research into optimal price construction, risk management, execution and the nature of the NatWest Markets client base, through to day-to-day improvements in MI and system parameter tuning.
Other key aspects of your role will involve:
- Designing, building and testing algorithms that make up the bank's algo suite
- Performing tactical and strategic analysis to support the electronic trading businesses
- Designing, developing and maintaining pricing, spreading, risk management, execution models and algorithms used by the businesses
- Making sure that coding standards and procedures are implemented correctly
- Undertaking research and analysis across the electronic trading space
- Designing, building and testing algorithms for pricing, quoting and managing risk within the various supported markets
- Supporting the live production algorithms by liaising with trading and technology
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll need a good understanding of computational and programming principles. You’ll need experience in data analysis, independent and collaborative research, problem solving and general programming. In addition, it would be ideal if you demonstrate an interest in electronic trading and either FX or FI.
We’d ideally like you to have some or all of the following:
· Programming in a typed language e.g. Java, C#, C++
· Programming experience in Python
· Electronic/algorithmic trading experience
· FX or FI experience
· Experience with common SDLC tooling, such as Maven, GIT and CI
· Proficiency in statistics and linear algebra
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
28/10/2026Ways of Working:Office FirstHow we rate this
eTrading Quantitative Associate or Vice President at NatWest Group rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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