The Voleon Group

Associate

• Rotate across credit, equity, forex, and derivatives desks to learn each asset class and trading region
• Eventually assume ownership of systematic trading programs
• Interact directly with internal stakeholders and the broker-dealer community
• Build analytics and automation to improve the sophistication and scale of firmwide trading operations
• Monitor high-volume execution algorithms and portfolio risk
• Track real-time market developments
• Interface with external brokers and trading counterparties
• Contribute to the codebase underlying automated trading operations
• Build processes and technology to prevent errors or outages while increasing team capacity
• Provide insight and expertise to research and development staff
• Work global market hours for part of each year on a rotational basis

Associate Trading Staff

Operations

• Provide technical and operational leadership for the Corp-ITS team, setting service delivery standards and mentoring team members
• Grow into and exercise direct people management, including performance conversations, career development, hiring, and team culture building
• Coordinate between Corp-ITS, Corp-ITE, Security, and business stakeholders
• Lead IT service delivery strategy, including service desk operations, SLA management, incident response, continuous improvement, metrics, and performance tracking
• Use AI tools to improve ticket triage, self-service, and process improvement
• Manage complex escalations and critical incidents as the highest-level technical resource
• Perform hands-on troubleshooting, platform administration, endpoint management, and infrastructure operations
• Mentor junior team members and drive resolution of complex technical issues
• Lead cross-functional IT projects involving rollouts, upgrades, automation, and security implementations
• Own IT service delivery processes, documentation, SLAs, runbooks, and SOPs; drive improvements and automation
• Build relationships across IT and the organization and facilitate communication and collaboration

Corporate IT Services Operations Lead

General

• Develop a rich understanding of Voleon’s challenges and methodologies and propose research innovations and experiments to build, maintain and optimize investment-strategy models
• Prepare and analyze new datasets to assess predictive efficacy
• Develop, validate, and implement new models into production
• Design and conduct experiments to improve simulations and evaluate new models in a live environment
• Communicate and collaborate with Members of Research Staff and Software Engineers throughout the applied research lifecycle
• Keep up to date with academic research and identify novel approaches for application to financial markets
• Apply research to financial market prediction and portfolio optimization
• Work across basic research, productizing solutions, and validating efficacy in live trading
• Help direct billions of dollars in daily trades

Associate Trading Staff

Corporate IT Services Operations Lead

Research Staff Member