Quant Trading - Fixed Income Execution (Director)

Department Overview:
The Financial Markets (FM) landscape is rapidly going through a process of digitisation, at the core of which is eTrading. eTrading at ING covers all products traded in ING FM. These span from the very liquid and electronic products (cash equities, futures, commodities and FX), Fixed Income products (corporate and government bonds) which are in the process of becoming electronic due to balance sheet reduction and regulation, to the less liquid and less electronic derivative products. Data is core to eTrading and eTrading also covers the data and business intelligence strategy.

Fixed income eTrading sits inside financial markets trading and comprises of a team of developers and quants.

Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role: 
The Quant will be part of the Fixed Income eTrading team and will be responsible for creating the new generation of algorithms and pricing logic at ING.

Career Potential

• Strong exposure to trading teams in London but also other global FM trading locations;

• Exposure to other global ING eTrading teams;

• Scope for career progression within eTrading and trading functions.

• Lead INGs client execution team

Candidate Profile

Qualification/Education 

• Essential: MSc in quantitative subject

• Desired: PhD in quantitative subject.     

Experience/Knowledge

Essential:     

• 5+ years Front Office experience including the development of algos and automated trading

• Having personally developed algorithms running in production;

• Strong research and analysis skills (Python);

• Flexibility in development technologies. Expected to work with different technologies and languages (KDB, Proprietary Software, Java);

Desirable:    

• Experience with q/KDB+;

• Experience with Broadway technology;

• Strong development skills (Java);

Personal Competencies

Essential: 

• Hands-on mentality;

• Ability to deliver without supervision;

• Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology;

• Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance;

• Challenger of the status quo, always striving to do things more efficiently and effectively; 

• Genuine team player.

Desirable:    

• Customer and product focus;

• Clear, concise and transparent communicator.