Quant Hedge Funds have flocked to the UAE over the last few years, mainly starting by moving over Senior PMs from other regions to setup their strategies from here. Now that there is enough of a presence, the supporting functions of these Quant businesses are growing in the region, after previously being serviced from other locations.

Role:

There is a wide range of Data responsibilities within this QR team, so the hire will need to be a savvy data engineer with experience wrangling data, optimising data systems as well as building new ones from scratch:

Responsibilities:

• Onboarding new datasets (financial, alt, structure and unstructured
• Data cleaning, standardisation etc
• Data streaming, pipelining etc
• Data Analysis
• Interface with Quants, PMs and QDs to understand the data needs of their research

Required Skills:

Here’s a list of interesting things that clients are interested in seeing:

• Python
• SQL
• AWS/Azure/GCP
• Airflow/Snowflake exp. is plus
• CI/CD + DevOps exp. is a plus
• Exp. with common financial data sets (e.g. Bloomberg, Refinitv, FactSet, S&P Global, CapIQ etc)