United Kingdom

Trading

Investment Bank

Your role

As a Director in our London team, you will:
• Lead the design, development, and implementation of quantitative models and analytics supporting the QIS business, covering strategy research, pricing, risk, and lifecycle management
• Play a key role in designing and modelling the next generation of QIS strategies, partnering closely with Trading, Structuring and Sales from idea generation through production launch
• Deliver high quality quantitative applications, tools, and workflows to support QIS Trading in managing, analysing, and hedging risk
• Contribute to the transformation of the QIS calculation stack, including migration towards a strategic, cloud based architecture in collaboration with IT and platform teams
• Support internal and external stakeholders, including clients, third party calculation agents, and internal platform teams, ensuring robustness, transparency, and scalability of QIS analytics
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with Trading, Structuring, Sales, Quant, IT, and Risk partners in London and across regions

Job Reference #

336805BR

City

London

Job Type

Full Time

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Your team

QIS Quants deliver best in class quantitative solutions for clients and trading functions of UBS’ Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) business, part of Global Markets. As a member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in the design, modelling, and delivery of systematic investment strategies, along with the analytics and tooling that support their full lifecycle from conception to production and client delivery. You will be developing models, applications, and workflows within UBS’s proprietary cloud based quantitative analytics platform (ACQA), working closely with Trading, Structuring, Sales, Quant and IT partners globally. Your work will directly support QIS strategy innovation, risk management, and scalable production, contributing measurable value to clients and internal stakeholders.

Your expertise

• 3+ years of professional experience in QIS, systematic trading, quantitative research, structuring, or front office quant roles within Global Markets
• Strong proficiency in Python for developing quantitative models, analytics, and production ready applications
• Solid grounding in financial mathematics, time series analysis, and quantitative modelling techniques
• Experience working with large scale data and analytics pipelines; familiarity with KDB/Q or equivalent technologies is required
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and architectural design skills, with an ability to operate effectively in a front office environment
• Academic background in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related STEM discipline
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML techniques, with experience delivering such models into production environments a plus
• Proficiency in additional programming languages such as Java or C++; experience with performance critical or large scale systems is a plus
• Experience with strategic cloud platforms and workflows (e.g. Azure based architectures); exposure to migration or platform transformation initiatives is advantageous
• Strong understanding of the end to end lifecycle of systematic strategies, from research and modelling through production and client delivery
• Post graduate academic studies in a quantitative STEM subject

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About us

UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland. We also provide diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS is present in more than 50 markets around the globe.
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Disclaimer / Policy statements

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.