Senior Trading Behavior & Flow Risk Analyst

2 months, 2 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
Diversified Financial Services
51-250
Founded 2023

Description

  • Analyze large-scale trading behavior across tens of thousands of accounts and millions of trading events.
  • Build frameworks to assess long-term trader quality, consistency, and behavioral stability.
  • Develop participant scoring systems based on execution behavior, risk profile, and behavioral patterns rather than only PnL.
  • Identify persistent signals in execution quality, position management, holding behavior, directional bias, exposure concentration, and performance drift.
  • Research the repeatability of trading behavior across different market regimes and non-stationary environments.
  • Detect behavioral deterioration, adverse selection, flow toxicity, style drift, and execution inefficiencies.
  • Design frameworks for participant segmentation, risk profiling, and flow classification.
  • Evaluate participant quality using metrics such as MAE/MFE, drawdowns, position sizing, holding behavior, rolling performance drift, exposure concentration, and tail risk.
  • Work with large-scale datasets and real-time monitoring systems.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on automated decision systems, risk infrastructure, and real-time analytics.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in institutional trading, brokerage risk, market making, execution, proprietary trading, quantitative research, or trader evaluation environments.
  • Strong understanding of market microstructure, participant behavior, and risk-adjusted performance analysis.
  • Experience working with large-scale client flow, execution systems, trader populations, or liquidity infrastructure.
  • Deep intuition for probabilistic systems and statistical behavior at scale.
  • Strong Python and SQL skills.
  • Experience with behavioral analytics, clustering, statistical learning methods, time-series analysis, and large datasets.
  • Strong understanding of adverse selection, flow quality, execution efficiency, tail risk, regime changes, and behavioral drift.
  • Ability to reason effectively under noisy and non-stationary environments.
  • Preferred background in institutional brokers, proprietary trading firms, market makers, execution venues, electronic trading environments, hedge funds, or large-scale trader evaluation platforms.

Benefits

  • Equal opportunity employer committed to an open and inclusive work environment.
  • Supportive culture that fosters the well-being of employees.
  • Inclusive hiring and workplace practices across age, color, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender identity, language, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and more.

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