984 Trading jobs in India

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Derivatives Sales Trader to join our dynamic trading desk. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of equity and derivative products, exceptional execution capabilities, and the ability to manage complex client orders efficiently. This role involves real-time market analysis, seamless order execution, and ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory standards, all while contributing to revenue growth and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

Trade Execution & Order Management

• Execute client orders across equity derivatives, index futures/options, and related instruments with accuracy and speed.
• Manage large and complex order flows to minimize market impact and ensure optimal execution.
• Monitor real-time market conditions, including price movement, liquidity, and order book depth, to achieve best execution outcomes.
• Handle block deals and coordinate effectively with counterparties to ensure timely and smooth settlements.
• Proficient in using trading platforms such as Omnesys and GreekSoft .

Client & Strategy Management

• Manage multiple client orders, instruments, and strategies simultaneously without compromising execution quality.
• Understand and analyze client trading behavior to provide tailored execution strategies and enhance client satisfaction.
• Identify client needs and gaps and proactively work to provide effective solutions.

Market Intelligence & Risk Compliance

• Stay updated with market developments, trading trends, and macroeconomic indicators to inform trading decisions.
• Ensure adherence to all internal risk controls, exchange regulations, and compliance guidelines.
• Monitor risk parameters and escalate any breaches in a timely manner.

Business Development

• Drive business growth through strong client engagement and upselling of relevant products.
• Achieve sales and revenue targets, maintaining a healthy product mix.
• Contribute to developing and implementing strategies to grow the equity derivatives segment.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of equity and derivative products, including options and futures.
• In-depth understanding of the Indian equity markets.
• Certification in Equity and Derivatives (NISM) is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with trading systems, preferably Omnesys and GreekSoft.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to perform under pressure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to multitask in a high-paced trading environment.
• Passion for markets and a continuous learning mindset.
• Strong decision-making skills with a focus on risk-adjusted returns.

Qualification:

Graduation/ MBA/ Economics, Business, or related field

Experience: 3-5years of experience in derivatives execution trading at a broking firm, investment bank or proprietary desk.

• Develop and implement quantitative models for pricing and risk management of derivatives.
• Design and optimize trading algorithms and strategies.
• Perform statistical analysis and backtesting of trading strategies.
• Collaborate with traders and portfolio managers to identify market opportunities.
• Manage risk exposures and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain sophisticated analytical tools and systems.
• Conduct research on new financial instruments and market trends.
• Contribute to the development of performance attribution models.
• Communicate complex quantitative concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Stay current with advancements in quantitative finance and technology.

• Master's or Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3-7 years of experience as a Quantitative Analyst or similar role in investment banking, hedge funds, or asset management.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or R.
• Solid understanding of derivatives, financial markets, and risk management.
• Experience with financial modeling, statistical analysis, and econometrics.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

• Develop and implement cutting-edge quantitative trading models for derivatives.
• Perform rigorous back-testing and performance analysis of trading strategies.
• Build and maintain pricing and risk management models for complex financial instruments.
• Collaborate with traders and portfolio managers to identify trading opportunities.
• Utilize statistical modeling, machine learning, and data mining techniques.
• Optimize trading algorithms for speed, efficiency, and profitability.
• Analyze large datasets to extract actionable market insights.
• Work closely with software developers to implement models into production systems.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the quantitative research framework.
• Provide clear and concise explanations of complex models and their implications.

• Master's or Ph.D. in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Financial Engineering.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in quantitative analysis, financial modeling, or algorithmic trading.
• Proven expertise in derivatives pricing and hedging strategies.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++, R, or Java.
• In-depth knowledge of statistical modeling, time series analysis, and machine learning algorithms.
• Excellent understanding of financial markets and trading principles.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences.
• Experience working in a remote, collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and deliver high-quality results under pressure.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Derivatives Sales Trader to join our dynamic trading desk. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of equity and derivative products, exceptional execution capabilities, and the ability to manage complex client orders efficiently. This role involves real-time market analysis, seamless order execution, and ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory standards, all while contributing to revenue growth and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

Trade Execution & Order Management

• Execute client orders across equity derivatives, index futures/options, and related instruments with accuracy and speed.
• Manage large and complex order flows to minimize market impact and ensure optimal execution.
• Monitor real-time market conditions, including price movement, liquidity, and order book depth, to achieve best execution outcomes.
• Handle block deals and coordinate effectively with counterparties to ensure timely and smooth settlements.
• Proficient in using trading platforms such as Omnesys and GreekSoft .

Client & Strategy Management

• Manage multiple client orders, instruments, and strategies simultaneously without compromising execution quality.
• Understand and analyze client trading behavior to provide tailored execution strategies and enhance client satisfaction.
• Identify client needs and gaps and proactively work to provide effective solutions.

Market Intelligence & Risk Compliance

• Stay updated with market developments, trading trends, and macroeconomic indicators to inform trading decisions.
• Ensure adherence to all internal risk controls, exchange regulations, and compliance guidelines.
• Monitor risk parameters and escalate any breaches in a timely manner.

Business Development

• Drive business growth through strong client engagement and upselling of relevant products.
• Achieve sales and revenue targets, maintaining a healthy product mix.
• Contribute to developing and implementing strategies to grow the equity derivatives segment.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of equity and derivative products, including options and futures.
• In-depth understanding of the Indian equity markets.
• Certification in Equity and Derivatives (NISM) is mandatory.
• Hands-on experience with trading systems, preferably Omnesys and GreekSoft.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to perform under pressure.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Ability to multitask in a high-paced trading environment.
• Passion for markets and a continuous learning mindset.
• Strong decision-making skills with a focus on risk-adjusted returns.

Qualification:

Graduation/ MBA/ Economics, Business, or related field

Experience: 3-5years of experience in derivatives execution trading at a broking firm, investment bank or proprietary desk.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Professional, Trading Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop software applications and systems that drive the trading operations. With limited supervision, this job participates in co-creation and maintenance of sophisticated software applications vital to our trading activities, collaboration with cross functional teams to conceptualize, design and implement new software features that meet user needs and advance our business objectives, including upgrading existing software by writing clean, efficient and scalable code to improve performance and functionality, and identifying and resolving issues promptly to ensure the seamless operation of the software systems. This job also participates in code reviews and shares insights and knowledge to uphold the standards of excellence.

Key Accountabilities

• SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, and Apache Spark/Scala. Build real-time and batch data processing solutions using Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming. Write clean, efficient and maintainable high-performance data transformation code in Scala, customizing solutions to align with trading strategies and regulatory requirements.

• AUTOMATION: Integrate and optimize data workflows with Snowflake for analytics and BI consumption.

Implements continuous integration and deployment pipelines to streamline trading software releases, automates complex tests to validate software reliability under various market conditions and optimizes workflows by automating repetitive tasks to increase operational efficiency.

• COLLABORATION: Collaborates with traders, data scientists,  analysts, and other cross functional teams to gather requirements and deliver needed solutions, ensuring technical solutions aligned with business goals, participates in agile practices like standups and sprint planning for effective communication, shares knowledge through code reviews to drive learning and best practices, and explains technical concepts clearly to nontechnical team members.
• TESTING & DEBUGGING: Develops comprehensive test plans, including unit and integration tests, to validate functionality and performance, applying advanced debugging skills to resolve software defects and maintain system integrity, performing complex testing to ensure the system handles high transaction volumes, and collaborating with quality assurance teams members to ensure software meets standards before deployment.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Implement data quality, governance, and security best practices across all platforms. Sustains the commitment to improving system performance, scalability and reliability to ensure systems evolve with changing needs, staying current with industry trends and best in class standards, proactively suggesting improvements to development processes and tools, and integrating users and stakeholders feedback to refine software solutions.
• DOCUMENTATION: Reviews and builds technical documentation of complex system architecture and development processes, ensuring clear technical guides and operation manuals to facilitate ease of use, maintaining compliance with regulations and policies, and collaborating to build the knowledge base for delivering onboarding and training new team members.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Monitors and troubleshoot data pipelines, live trading systems for optimal performance, ensuring reliability and scalability including addressing complex real time issues promptly, responding quickly to resolve operational problems, minimizing downtime and risk, executing routine maintenance to keep systems secure and efficient, and developing disaster recovery planning to ensure business continuity during system failures or crises

Qualifications

MINIMUM & TYPICAL YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum requirement of 3-5 years of work experience in data engineering or big data development.

Technical Skills Required

• Strong programming skills in Scala (or Scala/Python with willingness to work in Scala)
• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark (Data Frames, Spark SQL, Streaming)
• Proficiency in AWS services: Glue, S3, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, IAM
• Experience with Apache Kafka for real-time data ingestion and processing
• Workflow orchestration using Apache Airflow
• Good experience with Snowflake: data loading, transformation, performance tuning
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments

Preferred Skills

• Worked on large-scale data platform migration initiatives, including legacy-to-cloud transitions and modernization of ETL pipelines

Functional Skills Required

• Hands-on experience in agricultural trading platforms, derivatives pricing, risk-adjusted analytics for futures, options, and hedging strategies   
• Strong understanding of market and credit risk, derivatives trading, risk exposure, and contract lifecycle management
• Proven track record in designing cloud-native data platforms using AWS, Spark, Kafka, Snowflake, and Airflow, with a focus on scalable, secure, and domain-driven solutions

Job Purpose and Impact

The Manager, Trading Engineering job sets goals and objectives for the achievement of greenfield, brownfield and BAU work results for the product team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining software applications and systems that drive the trading operations. This job requires strategic vision and technical leadership to manage trading engineering products and projects, implementing appropriate technologies and methodologies and adopting best in class industry standards and emerging technologies to improve the performance and capabilities of trading systems. This job also leads the trading engineering team to deliver against project planning and prioritization, coordinating cross functional collaboration and allocating resources effectively to achieve optimal efficiency.

Key Accountabilities

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Coordinates the planning and delivery of trading software projects/products, ensuring timely and within scope completion despite market volatility across multiple products, trading platforms, risk management systems and real time analytics tools.
• AUTOMATION: Leads the implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines to streamline trading software releases, automating tests to validate software reliability under various market conditions and optimizing workflows by automating repetitive tasks to increase operational efficiency.
• QUALITY ASSURANCE: Reviews to ensure adherence to the highest standards of quality and performance in all trading software applications through rigorous testing, comprehensive code reviews, and strict adherence to best in class industry standards to prevent system failures that lead to significant financial losses.
• PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Coordinates continuous improvement initiatives, improving software development and deployment processes and eliminating inefficiencies in workflows, to ensure rapid delivery of trading solutions.
• STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Strong stakeholder management is required to coordinate the engineering team partnerships with traders, product managers, analysts and other cross functional teams to understand trading operations’ unique requirements, promoting stakeholder engagement and prioritizing high value projects for the trading business.
• DOCUMENTATION: Leads the delivery of comprehensive documentation of trading software, deployment processes and system configurations, including up-to-date, detailed records of algorithms, data workflows and integrations, meeting compliance and audit standards to facilitate transparency and continuity in trading operations.
• TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Leads teams to provide exceptional technical support and swift issue resolution for trading applications, implementing robust processes like real time monitoring and incident response, and facilitating knowledge sharing and continuous learning to improve the team’s ability to diagnose and resolve complex trading system issues.
• COMMUNICATION: Act as a leader, facilitates communication on strategies, risks and progress with management team and other stakeholders, ensuring alignment and support.
• TEAM MANAGEMENT: Manages team members as leader to achieve the organization’s goals, by allocating resources, ensuring productivity, communicating performance expectations, creating goal alignment, giving and seeking feedback, providing coaching, measuring progress and holding people accountable, supporting employee development, recognizing achievement and lessons learned, and developing enabling conditions for talent to thrive in an inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.

Technical Skills Required

• Programming - python, C#, SQL, Javascript
• Risk Modeling and Analytics 
• Data Processing - real time data pipelines (e.g. Kafka, Spark), batch processing framework (e.g. Apach Spark, AWS Glue), data warehousing tools (e.g. SnowFlake, Hadoop)
• Database - Relational database (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL), Time-series databases, In-memory data store
• Cloud infra - AWS, Azure
• Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes
• Monitoring - Datadog, Grafana
• RESTful APIs

Functional Skills Required

• Commodities and Derivatives
• Risks - Market Risks, Credit Risks
• Technical Leadership and Architecture