Senior Quantitative Analyst
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Analyst to join our Quantitative Dealing team.
The role will develop, validate, and deploy data-driven models that strengthen understanding of client behaviour, trading activity, and market conditions.
The successful candidate will translate trading and business questions into robust analytical approaches, scalable data pipelines, and production-ready models.
The role combines rigorous research with practical implementation across high-volume financial and trading datasets.
Key Skills for This Role
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About MultiBank Group
MultiBank Group is a global financial pioneer established in 2005 in California and now headquartered in Dubai, UAE.
It offers Forex, Metals, Shares, Indices, Commodities, and Cryptocurrency CFDs, serving over 2 million clients across 100 countries with daily trading volume exceeding US$35 billion.
The group is regulated by 18+ financial regulators across 5 continents and has received over 80 financial awards.
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Quantitative Analyst to join our Quantitative Dealing team.
The role will develop, validate, and deploy data-driven models that strengthen understanding of client behaviour, trading activity, and market conditions.
The successful candidate will translate trading and business questions into robust analytical approaches, scalable data pipelines, and production-ready models.
The role combines rigorous research with practical implementation across high-volume financial and trading datasets.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, validate, and maintain quantitative models and machine-learning methods using financial, trading, client, and market data.
- Translate trading and business questions into clear research hypotheses, measurable outcomes, and practical analytical solutions.
- Use Python, PySpark, and SQL to extract, transform, validate, and analyse large datasets from multiple trading and business systems.
- Engineer, document, and validate robust features from transactional, market, and operational data.
- Apply appropriate statistical, machine-learning, and AI techniques to identify meaningful patterns and generate actionable insights.
- Evaluate model performance, robustness, stability, and explainability, communicating limitations and recommendations clearly.
- Develop scalable data and model workflows using AWS-based data infrastructure, including Glue, SageMaker, Athena, and related services.
- Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of analytical tooling, data pipelines, and model workflows.
- Collaborate with Data Analysts and other stakeholders to maintain reliable data foundations and support complex analytical work.
- Support critical desk projects, including client profiling and market regime identification.
Qualifications and Requirements
- 5-8+ years of professional experience in quantitative analysis, data science, machine learning, quantitative research, or a similar analytical role.
- Strong Python experience for data analysis, modelling, feature engineering, automation, and production-quality analytical workflows.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Experience with PySpark or other distributed data-processing frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience building and evaluating predictive models, including supervised and unsupervised machine-learning methods.
- Strong understanding of statistical modelling, time-series analysis, model validation, and the practical trade-offs involved in deploying models.
- Experience working with financial markets, trading, brokerage, or other high-frequency transactional datasets; FX, CFD, or brokerage experience is strongly preferred.
- Experience applying LLMs in data or analytics workflows, including an understanding of evaluation, limitations, and appropriate controls.
- Ability to investigate and reconstruct complex sequences of business, trading, and system events and translate them into reliable analytical logic.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to explain technical findings, assumptions, and risks clearly.
Preferred Profile
- Experience with MetaQuotes MT4 and MT5 databases and trading data structures.
- Experience with AWS data and analytics services, including Glue, Data Catalog, Athena, and SageMaker.
- Experience applying machine-learning methods to client, trading, market, or other financial datasets.
- Familiarity with model monitoring, reproducible research, version control, testing, and model documentation.
- Understanding of dealing operations, liquidity management, risk management, hedging, P&L reporting, or related brokerage workflows.
- Experience designing analytical products, decision-support workflows, or internal tools used by business stakeholders.
- A genuine interest in financial markets and trading, evidenced through personal study, research, or practical engagement.
- A degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, econometrics, financial engineering, or another quantitative discipline.
Why Join Us
- Work with an industry-leading global financial institution.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive employee benefits.
- Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and dynamic work environment.
- Commitment to innovation, client engagement excellence, and performance-driven success.
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