Quantitative Data Support Analyst, Hedge Fund

Quantitative Data Support Analyst, Hedge Fund
£35,000- £75,000 + Competitive Bonus & Benefits

(PhD/MSc, Perl/Shell, Data, SQL, Analyst, Support)

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a large international Hedge Fund based in London. The Hedge Fund consists of an excellent team of researchers, traders and technologists who constantly work toward even greater quantification and automation in the development of its trading processes. Continuously evolving for ever-greater efficiency enables them to trade today the way others will tomorrow.

This Hedge Fund are seeking a Data Analyst (Research Support) to support market data, trading model testing and production related requests from within the company. This is a technical supporting role. The perspective candidate will spend about 70% of time addressing the requests, and work with developers to enhance the related processes, while devote about 30% of time doing development (see details below).

Job Responsibilities (include, but not limited to the following):

-Work with portfolio managers and researchers as 1st level support to address their questions regarding data sets, model testing and production processes
-Monitor various trading model testing processes, perform troubleshooting and apply fixes or escalate to 2nd level support
-Regular maintenance on trading models, such as updating configuration parameters, upgrading and applying user requested modifications
-Administrate user access to market data, tracking the usage and produce reports
-Design/implement/enhance monitoring applications and tools to help investigate relevant problems
-Compile and analyze data set and trading model statistics and coordinate with other internal departments to produce specialized reports
-Maintain internal web pages that interface with Trading and Research departments on data usage and model testing

Job Qualifications:

-Interest in applying technology to real world situation, comfortable working in fast-paced working environment, detail oriented and capable performing task under time pressure
-Possess effective problem solving both independently or as member of a team
-Have good communication skills: must be fluent in English, spoken and written
-Possess an education background in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, with minimum Masters Degree. Proof of good academic record (ie GPA/other relevant test scores)
-Have experience working under Linux environment. Proficient with common utilities such as find/grep/AWK/SED/ls/cut/cp/tar/ps/ssh etc. Familiar with Vi or Emacs for editing files
-Have experienced with Scripting language, Perl and Shell Scripting are required, knowing Python is a plus. This requirement can be dropped/loosen only if candidate shows strong ability in other required skills, and successfully demonstrate he/she can pick up the skill in reasonable timeframe
-Possess knowledge of C/C++, common algorithms and data structures (binary tree, sorting, etc) and Object Oriented Design. Be familiar with compilers, debuggers under Linux (gcc, g++, gdb)
-Have knowledge of basic statistics/probability, familiar with concepts such as correlation, standard deviation and how to calculate
-Be familiar with database operations (with MySQL), including schema building, query, data loading, backup, restore
-Be familiar with web site maintenance, web server configuration, CGI (Apache, CSS, HTML, ModPerl/Mason)

If this role is of interest, please apply.