Cash Equities - Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) Low-Latency Quant Product Manager - Vice President
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The ECS product suite is designed to source liquidity effectively across an ever-changing landscape of liquidity centres, minimize transaction costs and maintain anonymity for our clients. It includes; global direct market access and smart order routing, global algorithmic trading products, differentiated liquidity solutions, pre- and post-trade analytics.
Job Summary:
As a Vice President in Cash Equities, Electronic Client Solutions, you will be performing a client- facing role with an opportunity to work directly with quantitative hedge fund clients, delivering tailored electronic trading workflows, controls, and exchange co-location solutions. Your efforts will enable clients to access JPM’s market-leading, ultra-low latency direct market access products. Additionally, you will engage closely with clients through execution consultation, systematic market access, and insights into the EMEA market landscape. As a member of the broader client connectivity team, you will also participate in client onboarding across the wider cash equities franchise working with Program Trading, High Touch and Equity Derivatives desks.
You will join the Electronic Client Solutions (ECS) team, which is the client-facing organization for all automated trading capabilities in Cash Equities. This team builds, manages and delivers the leading industry platform for algorithmic execution and liquidity solutions, data, analytics and low latency trading capabilities to institutional, hedge fund and systematic trading firms. The team partners with clients and provides in-depth TCA analysis and execution consultations.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee the management and integration of JPM's proprietary Direct Market Access (DMA) software solutions with internal trading destinations, ultra-low latency DMA products utilizing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, exchange-sponsored access solutions, and other liquidity-seeking offerings.
- Manage JPM's exchange co-location presence and engineer custom client solutions within the co-location facilities.
- Interact with our clients to understand their needs and collaborate with them to identify and quantify their custom requirements.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory obligations such as MIFID II, including adherence to market access controls.
- Partner with technology teams to coordinate production releases, conduct post-release validation with clients, and oversee the go-live process for custom solutions and products.
- Collaborate closely with production management, network engineers, and application development groups to troubleshoot product service outages and resolve issues with minimal adverse client impact.
- Contribute to defining product strategy and guiding platform investment and drive initiatives to enhance our existing electronic trading DMA product suite.
- Work directly with electronic trading technology and infrastructure teams to drive innovation and deploy solutions in our production environment.
- Produce in-depth analysis of product usage, client trends, trading performance, and revenues.
- Leverage analytical skills to analyze large data sets and provide actionable results to drive product evolution and client product usage.
- Maintain a working knowledge of equities trading, market structure, and the equities market regulatory landscape.
- Be an integral member of the ECS team, working together to provide a positive client experience.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelors’ degree from a leading university with a degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related quantitative field.
- Experience with latency-sensitive Direct Market Access (DMA) electronic trading systems, Smart Order Routing, and other liquidity access products.
- A minimum of 5+ years equities electronic trading experience or equivalent.
- Very strong quantitative and analytical skills.
- Experienced in Q/kdb and Python.
- Comprehensive understanding of equities execution products, market structure, and the regulatory landscape.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with specific ability to communicate concepts and ideas concisely and defend their validity.
- Ability to comfortably interact with clients in a professional and mature manner.
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
Discover a unique opportunity to become a part of our Cash Equities - Electronic Client Solutions in London.