Role Overview:
As an Options Platform Analyst at Citadel Securities, you have the opportunity to work with best-in-class processes and controls to enable the firm’s trading strategies and manage the firm's financial and regulatory risks in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Responsibilities:
- Innovate, design, implement, and run analytics on the options market making business
- Employ technical expertise and domain knowledge to develop new insights into the systematic trading platform, driving enhanced revenue, efficiency, and resilience
- Conduct investigation into trade and position data with a strong focus on automation of reporting and anomaly detection from a granular to larger scale level
- Visualize complex datasets that will inform both strategic business and tactical trading decisions
- Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and developers to share knowledge amongst each other and implement change
- Maintain and improve the platform's existing suite of tools and reports
- Reconciliation of heterogeneous data sources
- Ad-hoc reporting for C-suite as requested
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM program from a top institution
- In-depth data analytic experience in Python (pandas/polars, plotly, etc.) and SQL; High Performance Computing, C++, KDB+/Q experience a plus but not required
- Experience working on data pipelines and automating manual processes
- Strong attention to detail and a desire to work on detail-oriented data tasks
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated self-starter, with the drive and can-do attitude to learn new things and push through challenges to deliver results
- Excellent problem-solving and strategic decision-making ability; able to keep the big picture in mind, making informed and defensible decisions in a fast-paced trading environment
- Prior experience in electronic trading is a plus, eagerness to learn required
