Quantitative Strategist

Job Title Quantitative Strategist

Location London

Corporate Title Vice President

Group Strategic Analytics is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

GSA concentrates Deutsche Bank’s quantitative and modelling expertise within a single unit. With group-wide responsibility for model development GSA takes a cross-business and cross-functional approach to solving quantitative modelling and analytics challenges and rolls out common development standards.

You will join the Market Risk Strats unit within GSA, which is a team comprised of people with technology, front office quant and market risk and methodology experience. Your immediate focus will be on platform development and model implementation for Market Risk and Capital calculation, such as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB), Value at Risk (VaR), Stress Testing and Economic Capital, as well as supporting stakeholders. You will also be involved in a further build-out of a scalable and flexible Front Office pricing and risk management system with consistent interface to Market and Credit Risk, Finance and Treasury.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain high-quality software components for market risk calculations including Stress Testing, FRTB and related calculations

• Participate in the development of production applications implemented in Python and C++

• Maintain a rigorous focus on system stability, and completeness and accuracy of calculations, as applications are developed, and continue with this focus as they are used in production.

• Analyse and explain calculated numbers, work with traders, risk managers and strategist colleagues to continuously improve models and risk management and pricing tools.

Your skills and experience

• Strong C++ programming skills. You should have experience building robust, high-performance and maintainable codebases

• Quantitative background and analytical skills and ability to efficiently solve problems independently and proactively

• Understanding of the disciplines and tools which are used to deliver robust, high-quality applications: source control, unit-testing, regression testing, release and deployment controls, etc.

• Prior exposure to finance, in particular subjects such as derivatives and value-at-risk preferred.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to effectively partner together and collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders

• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs

How we’ll support you

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities

• Coaching and support from experts in your team

• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression

• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Proud Employer Trailblazer Status from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.

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