Analyst- GBS Job in Chennai at Bank of America

Bank of America is hiring for the role of Analyst- GBS!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Work closely with Platform and Strats teams and own requirements on data gathering, research, design, implementation, testing and monitoring trading performance for strategies running on trading platforms
• Partner with our Quants, Sales and Trading teams to develop core analytics and deliver key initiatives in the global trading analytics space
• Back-test Equity and Equity-linked trading data/strategies and apply statistical analysis to create actionable results for the business
• Work on complex data problems, handle large amounts of data and deliver a suite of analysis tools optimized for the data framework
• Understand business challenges, financial products and drive technical/quantitative solutions
• Liaise and interact with the business to refactor similar processes in a uniform and robust way
• Analysis, Design, and Implementation of Data Warehouse with responsibilities of Data Quality, Data Verification/Reconciliation, and delivery of Data in useful ways.
• Analysis, Design, and Development of Front Office Tool suite for Data and Analytics Platform
• Analysis, Design, Implementation & Testing of Pro-active Alerts Driven Workflows
• Maintaining existing Data Warehousing Infra-structure
• Maintaining infrastructure of Web & UI tools

Requirements:

• Master’s Degree or higher in Mathematics/Physics/Computer Science/Engineering; or equivalent experience
• Expertise in Python/C/ C++ and object-oriented programming
• Experience with databases/data pipelines
• Hands On Experience in SQL & Database (Preferably –Hadoop Impala  & Vertica)
• Basic Knowledge of Linux and Shell Scripting
• Ability to understand requirements and map to technical implementation
• Knowledge of Electronic Trading and Algorithms as well as working knowledge of Equity and Equity Derivative products (simple and complex non-liner products like options and liner products like Swaps, Futures and Delta One products)
• Skilled at troubleshooting desk issues/inquiries and work hand in hand with other groups to ensure resolution to inquiries
• Ability to interact with all levels of an organization; including management
• Ability to synthesize information from various documents/sources
• Ability to independently host calls and lead discussions with senior executives and stakeholders to arrive at business solutions
• Thorough and pro-active approach, willing to work in a dynamic team
• Commitment to excellence and strong attention to detail
• Prior experience with financial derivatives would be an advantage
• Experience with simulations, optimization, nonlinear programming, statistics would be an advantage