Options Trading Platform Research Analyst

Job Description
Role Summary:
As an Options Platform Analyst at Citadel Securities, you will become an expert in electronic trading platforms, systematic trading strategy, and market microstructure. You will work with best-in-class processes and controls to enable the firm's trading strategies and manage the firm's financial and regulatory risks. You will work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and will help solve a wide range of complex challenges. You will collaborate closely with the wider team to help identify opportunities to drive revenue and growth.
Objectives:
• Innovate, design, implement, and run analytics on the options market making business
• Strong focus on the automation of reporting and anomaly detection, as well as first-principles investigation into trade and position data to highlight opportunity in all aspects of market making (quoting, taking, microstructure, pnl)
• Ad-hoc reporting for C-suite as requested
• Employ technical expertise and domain knowledge to develop new insights into the systematic trading platform, driving enhanced revenue, efficiency, and resilience
• Conduct investigation into trade and position data, both at the most granular level (tick-by-tick market data, exchange feed messages, etc), and at scale (multi-year analysis across trade-able universe)
• Visualize complex datasets that will inform both strategic business and tactical trading decisions
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and developers to share knowledge amongst each other and implement change
• Maintain and improve the platform's existing suite of tools and reports
• Reconciliation of heterogeneous data sources
Skills and Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in STEM program from a top institution
• In-depth data analytic experience in Python (pandas/polars, plotly, etc...) and SQL; High Performance Computing, C++, KDB+/Q experience a plus but not required
• Experience working on data pipelines and automating manual processes
• Strong attention to detail and a desire to work on detail-oriented data tasks
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Demonstrated self-starter, with the drive and can-do attitude to learn new things and push through challenges to deliver results
• Excellent problem-solving and strategic decision-making ability; able to keep the big picture in mind, making informed and defensible decisions in a fast-paced trading environment
• Prior experience in electronic trading is a plus, eagerness to learn required
About Citadel Securities
Citadel Securities is the next-generation capital markets firm and a leading global market maker. We provide institutional and retail investors with the liquidity they need to trade a broad array of equity and fixed income products in any market condition. The brightest minds in finance, science and technology use powerful, advanced analytics to solve the market's most critical challenges, turning big ideas into real-world outcomes.