WE are looking for an AMM EQD EDGE IT STRATEGIST for algorithmic trading development - Capital Market!

Scope description

Design & Development:

- Interaction with traders and quantitative researchers: Analyze new ideas and requirements for development.

Maintenance and improvement of trading applications: Current features, algorithms, enhancements of existing applications, optimization for speed, bug corrections. Implement algorithms in line with Compliance and Regulations (e.g. RegNMS, RegSHO, etc.)Support: Monitoring: ensure that the trading platform is stable and works properly (scripts, batches, applications and infrastructure).

Maintenance: adapt, improve, stabilize and automate the platform; help reduce the human factor and the number of manual interventions. Assistance to the users (traders and researchers).

Interaction with Market Access teams to ensure proper quote reception and order sending capabilities. Interaction with IT Infra teams to ensure proper functioning of all devices: servers, firewalls, switches, database, filer, market- and inter-connectivity)Interaction with Operations to ensure proper accounting of the desk's positions: feed booking and other Back-Office systems. Interaction with compliance teams to understand the impact of regulations on the trading platform.

Objectives

-Work with Quant Trader on solutions to process/store Options historical data using [PYTHON]





- Work with Lynx Team globally to design/implement modifications to handle option data within Lynx data structures and back-test system [PYTHON/JAVA]
- Work with Quant Trader on Internalization algorithm within Edge framework [C++] Deliverables
- Python historical data processing implementation/validation [ETA TBC]
- Lynx solution design for Options backtests validated by Q3
- Implement solution within Lynx framework by Q1 2027

Minimum Required Qualifications

- Experience: 5 - 10 years relevant industry experience.
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or related discipline required.
- Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure.
- Strong technical & problem-solving (troubleshooting) skills.

o C/C++ and Java Spring Boot o Object-oriented programming.

o Real-time and multi-threaded programming.

o Low-level understanding of Linux.

o Network programming: socket, TCP/IP, UM.

o SQL, Oracle PL/SQL o Scripting (Python, bash)

o DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Jenkins, JUnit, Gradle, Git, quality and profiling tools

- Excellent oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge in Finance a plus but not a requirement.
- Knowledge of multi-core architectures.
- Libraries: BOOST, QT, onload, vma
- Master's preferred.
- NoSQL (Redis, Memcache)

Communication needs to be frequent/interactive. Reporting will be done weekly during Team status meeting and ad-hoc as requested by business sponsor.

📌 IT Strategist - Algorithmic Trading Development (Montreal)
🏢 Xcelerated Consulting Group
📍 Montreal