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Quantitative Strategist, Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trad

Goldman Sachs Bank AG, New York, New York, us, 10261

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Quantitative Strategist, Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET) location_on New York, New York, United States

What We Do At Goldman Sachs, quantitative strategists are the cutting edge of our businesses, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with traders and sales, strats' invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business decisions.

Within our Global Banking & Markets business,

Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading (GSET)

has launched an initiative to become the top provider in Electronic US Listed Options Trading by building superior technology and delivering high quality products. This vision is a multi-year investment in people, platforms, research, and products. Join our team and participate in the research that powers best-in-class products for top clients across the industry.

Who We Look For We are looking for eager, nimble, and ambitious quantitative strategists to join our growing team of visionaries, and drive Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading to achieve and exceed our goals. The ideal candidate thrives on complex challenges, possesses strong mathematical and analytical skills, and is eager to conduct deep dives into financial problems. Our team works with modern Python frameworks and uses KDB databases. Within our team, you will have ample opportunities to be curious, to solve problems for our clients, and directly impact the success of our business.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain high-performance options trading algorithms for our clients.

Apply machine learning techniques across a variety of large datasets in order to build strong predictive models.

Use Trade Cost Analysis (TCA) to monitor, analyze, and improve the execution of options trading algorithms.

Communicate with traders, sales, clients, and compliance officers about new features and models.

Qualifications

5+ years' experience with Python and/or KDB in a research or machine learning context.

Experience in data-driven trading performance analysis and optimizations is preferred.

Strong communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

Salary Range The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $150k - $300k. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

About Goldman Sachs At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health Services We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs Read more about the full suite of class-leading benefits our firm has to offer.

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