Accounting & Finance

Quantitative Trading Team Lead

The Voleon Group

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As QTL, you will lead a team of trading supervisors across multiple systematic desks, shaping live trading and the trading ops platform. You will mentor junior traders and drive project planning, backlog coordination, and firm-wide initiatives. You will work with management, research, development, and counterparties to advance production trading capabilities. This role combines leadership, technology design, and market microstructure expertise to scale and improve trading operations. Join a collaborative, expert-driven environment at a company at the frontier of AI/ML in finance.

Pay / Benefits
  • highly competitive compensation
  • benefits packages
  • technology talks by experts
  • modern office
  • daily catered lunches
Responsibilities
  • Mentor and develop junior traders to become high-caliber contributors
  • Act as escalation point for system or process failures
  • Design processes and technology; coordinate implementation
  • Develop market microstructure expertise across regions and asset classes
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers on production trading operations
  • Interface with external brokers or counterparties
  • Lead strategic projects as appropriate
Key requirements
  • 5+ year experience in systematic trading operations
  • Leadership experience
  • Process-oriented approach with zero-tolerance for error
  • Technical background in Python capable of designing production technology
  • Demonstrable clarity of thought and high-quality communications
  • Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline
  • leadership
  • strong communication
  • mentoring
  • collaboration
  • Python (production-grade)

Reference: WJ-747_31201581

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