Strategy Development Lead in Illinois

Eagle Seven is seeking a Strategy Development Lead to provide technical and quantitative solutions to business problems. The role will provide the candidate with exposure to traders and risk managers, as well as the ability to influence and direct the future of the trading desk. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, have strong sense of ownership, and a passion for trading/financial markets.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Implement and optimize robust low-latency trading algorithms
• Analyze performance of trading strategies over different markets and optimize strategies based on the analysis
• Back test strategies and build predictive models using historical market data
• Conceive, design, analyze, and measure electronic trading strategies
• Acquire, clean, maintain, and analyze data sets to identify trends & patterns

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science...