Back to Jobs

Quantitative Research - Athena Analytics Developer - Associate or Vice President

JPMorganChase
London
Job Description

Quantitative Researchers (QR) are key part of JP Morgan’s markets business, developing and maintaining sophisticated mathematical models, cutting-edge methodologies and infrastructure to value and risk manage financial transactions. We develop these in Athena, which is a next generation risk, pricing, and trade management platform built in-house at JP Morgan.

Job Summary

As an Associate or Vice President within Quantitative Research Athena and Analytics team, you will be focusing on cross asset topics ranging from pricing library and market model design, risk frameworks, UI design to high performance computing.

Athena is designed to enable rapid innovation on the desk by offering Quantitative Analysts, Risk Managers and Technologists a consistent, cross-asset portfolio of models, frameworks and tools to use in building financial applications. The power of the Athena platform derives from several key technical innovations: a powerful Dependency Graph implementation, a ubiquitous data store called Hydra, a Real-Time Risk Reporting framework, a robust Deal Model, and a forward propagating, event-driven graph called Reactive.

Job Responsibilities

  • Developing Athena (Python) analytics software that is used to price and risk manage financial products
  • Designing efficient, scalable and usable cross asset frameworks with the aim of establishing golden standards across all QR streams
  • Optimizing code and business processes, providing expert guidance to desk-aligned quant teams in using frameworks
  • Support of end users of the frameworks, communicating with desk-aligned quant teams and technology groups.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

  • You have a degree in a quantitative field, e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, physics
  • You demonstrate outstanding problem solving skills
  • You have excellent software and algorithm design and development skills
  • You are passionate about software design and writing high quality code
  • You demonstrate experience working in pricing libraries and risk management systems
  • You have a good understanding of trade life cycle, MTM, PnL and other processes that govern day to day business operations
  • You have excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

  • You have a knowledge of finance or quantitative finance
  • You have experience writing high quality Python

ABOUT US

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

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.
Posted 2025-09-14

Recommended Jobs

L3 Early Years Educator in Putney

Ethos Education
Putney, Greater London

A diverse and friendly nursery in Putney is now looking for a caring and passionate L3 Early Years Educator to join the dedicated team of staff, to start as soon as possible.     A Level 3 Ear…

View Details
Posted 2025-09-10

Branch Manager

Feltham, Greater London

Vacancy Ref: EM0340 Role: Branch Manager Industry: Electrical Wholesale Location: West London Overview: Ready to run the show? We’re on the hunt for a dynamic Branch Manager to take ful…

View Details
Posted 2025-09-16

FP&A Manager

London

We believe that difference sparks brilliance, so we welcome people and ideas from everywhere to join us in stretching what’s possible. At Tapestry, being true to yourself is core to who we are. …

View Details
Posted 2025-09-11

IT Compliance Auditor

Simon-Kucher & Partners
London

IT Compliance Auditor In the United Kingdom - London Simon-Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30 countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better gr…

View Details
Posted 2025-09-11

IT Support Technician/ IT 技术支持专员

BYD EUROPE
Hounslow, Greater London

About BYD Our Purpose is to build a zero-emission future that reconnects humanity with nature. We are looking for talent that connects with this mission and want to create positive impact by joi…

View Details
Posted 2025-09-10

Trader Summer Internship Programme

London

Trader Summer Internship Programme As a Trader Intern, you will complete a 9 week training programme run by our traders, including mock trading, project work and programming courses. Throughout th…

View Details
Posted 2025-09-10

Doggy Daycare needed near Lee Green SE13

Tailster
Lee Green, Greater London

Looking for 1 to 2 days a week doggy daycare care for my mini sausage.

View Details
Posted 2025-09-10

Research Manager

IFF Research
London

We're looking for an experienced Researcher at Manager level or an SRE who is ready for their next step and has experience at RM pace and workload. You'll be joining our team that works across crime …

View Details
Posted 2025-10-01