
Vice President- Equity Derivatives Quant
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Developing and enhancing the available products and models available to trade
- Enhance reserve methodologies; Enhance model performance monitoring
- Timely completion of model development tasks with little or no bugs; Positive feedback from the trading, structuring and valuation control desks; Successful release of new models in quant libraries
- Resolving issues raised by users and IT teams in using the Quant libraries; Assisting other members of the Equities Quant team with technical issues; Assisting IT with any integration issues they may have with our libraries.
- Following internal and regulatory guidelines for Releases and Documentation of the Quant libraries and tools; Define and run the relevant tests; Being able to roll back to a different version of the codebase, thanks to a robust versioning
- Provide support of product development tasks; Develops new products with their appropriate model, model calibration tools and risks.
- Develops and maintains complex products such as Vol Caps, Quantitative Investment Strategies, Collateralized Loans, new one-off trades; Defines model reserves methodologies in collaboration with Product Control and Trading. Monitors these reserves. Contributes to their industrialization
- Participate in Model Governance – Development of model performance indicators, Liaise with IMR in Model reviews and implement remediative actions to findings arising from such reviews.
- Develop and maintain a testing framework for new products and models; Day to day support / Bugs fixing; Assist in the release of the Quant libraries and tools; Assist in deploying the product development tools to users
- A degree based on Mathematical Finance from a top tier university
- Experience in model development in derivatives (at least 5 years)
- Familiarity with C++
- Scripting and Python experience
- Advanced C++ (at least 5 years)