Credit Trading Quantitative Strategist

Job Title Credit Trading Quantitative Strategist

Location London

Corporate Title Associate

Group Strategic Analytics (GSA) is part of Group Chief Operation Office (COO) which acts as the bridge between the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions to help deliver the efficiency, control, and transformation goals of the Bank.

Debt Strategic Analytics is part of Deutsche Bank GSA and is responsible for delivering quantitative analytics, modeling, pricing and risk management to the Fixed Income Business.

You will be joining the Credit Strats team, with a specific focus on the Flow Credit business. Your responsibility will be the development and implementation of cash and credit derivatives pricing capabilities, as well as their integration into the Bank’s strategic Analytics and Risk Management platform, Kannon.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Development, implementation and risk management of credit products (Credit Default Swaps (CDS), CDS Index, CDS Index Options, Loans, Corporate Bonds, Bond Exchange Traded Funds (ETF)’s etc.)
• Improve the automation of the risk & profit and loss (P&L) processes and work in collaboration with the Franchise Pricing team to extend the quoting platform to credit products
• Contribute to the optimisation effort to improve the scalability of the cross-asset platform especially for the credit businesses
• Work in collaboration with Trading, Technology and Operations to drive the build-out of the strategic analytics platforms
• Foster a collaborative and supportive environment by working together with members of the team to solve business problems

Your skills and experience

• Strong quantitative, modelling, pricing and risk management skills, demonstrated within a financial services environment. Experience of the credit business space is advantageous
• Experience writing code in C++ and Python
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner with various teams, and to be able to explain complex concepts effectively

How we’ll support you

• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on [email protected] to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.  

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.