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Head of Execution Technology

Permanent contract
Paris
Salary: Not specified
Occasional remote

Capital Fund Management
Capital Fund Management

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In close collaboration with quantitative research team on execution strategies and trading application development team, the Trading Core & Model Technology team is looking for:

A manager

  • You will manage a 5 to 10 people

  • You will report to the Head of Trading & Execution Technology

the team’s mission is to maintain and develop:

  • Feedhandlers enabling real-time distribution, with low latency, to various company applications.

  • Common execution libraries used by applications and tick by tick execution strategy simulators (C++):

    - Order flow management.

    - Network and processor optimized code enabling high-volume, low-latency tick by tick data delivery to trading applications.

  • Predictors based on machine learning techniques:

    - Machine learning pipeline for execution signals

    - Improvement of machine learning based predictors used in execution strategies.

- Industrialization of data engineering and machine learning pipelines

- Construction and maintenance of the technical infrastructure used for execution research (C++, Python, petabytes of data)

- Close collaboration with quantitative researchers to create high-quality solutions.

- Data collection for Calculation and distribution of transaction cost analysis metrics (C++, Python, SQL, Tableau)

- Automated analysis reports for execution research, portfolio investor relation, and compliance

The team is also responsible for optimizing latency from real-time reception to order submission.


Preferred experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

  • Strong team management and project coordination skills.

  • Ability to collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and understand their needs.

  • Strong skills in C++ / Python and/or machine learning systems

 Your plusses:

  • Experience in developing high-performance, low latency trading applications.

  • Knowledge of execution libraries and execution strategy simulators.

  • Understanding of order flow management concepts and real-time market data management.

  • Proficiency in SQL and data analysis tools such as tableau.


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