# Markets Strats - AVP

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $125,000 - $175,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Markets Strats - AVP to join our team at Barclays. As a Markets Strats - AVP, you will bring coding-heavy developer experience and be focused on expanding and scaling a research and portfolio analysis platform.

You will work directly with trading desks to build back-testing infrastructure, integrate multiple vendor and external data services, and support portfolio optimization and analysis. You will contribute to several high-impact projects as the platform is broadened and large-scale analytical capabilities are enhanced.

Responsibilities:

- Development and implementation of quantitative models and strategies to derive insight into market trends and optimize trading decisions, pricing, and risk management across various financial products and markets.

- Working closely with sales teams to identify clients' needs and develop customised solutions.

- In-depth research, data analysis, and statistical modelling to derive insights into market trends, pricing, and risk dynamics.

- Provide front office infrastructure support though ownership and maintenance of analytical libraries.

- Provision of expertise on quantitative methodologies, technological advancements, and industry best practices to drive innovation within the trading environment.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.

- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.

- Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.

Requirements:

- Advanced Python development with additional experience in Java.

- Equity derivatives and similar financial contracts.

- Back-testing frameworks and portfolio optimization techniques.

- Large-scale data analysis using vendor and internal datasets (KDB).

- Quantitative development for research and trading platforms.

Highly valued skills:

- Clear communication with front-office trading desks.

- Ample problem-solving and analytical thinking.

- Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

- Detail-oriented with considerable responsibility for deliverables.

- Collaborative mindset working closely with quants, traders, and engineers.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Java
- quantitative development
- data analysis
- statistical modelling

### Nice to have
- communication
- problem-solving
- analytical thinking
- portfolio optimization
- back-testing frameworks

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