Global Data Assets and Alpha Group - Data Intelligence Specialist - Associate or Vice President

If you are passionate, curious, and ready to make an impact, we are looking for you. The Global Data Assets & Alpha Group (DA&A) provides clients with a single touch point for trading data and associated signals & insights via three core pillars: Market Intelligence, Data Intelligence and Positioning Intelligence. The global team of 12, based across London and NY, sits within the Equities Trading division of J.P. Morgan, reporting directly into front office trading management. The group leverage macro, micro, political, positioning and technical data points in order to develop daily trading signals and insights; those insights delivered to buy-side client via audio channels, written content and data feeds. The Data Intelligence team, within the wider DA&A business, creates proprietary and differentiated trading data sets, signals, and strategies, which are made available to clients via API and leveraged internally for risk management. Flagship existing data sets include market timing indicators ('Signal from the Noise'), retail trading activity ('Through the Retail Lens') and regional market sentiment ('Bull/ Bear Buzz')., As the Data Intelligence Specialist, you will be responsible for building out our suite of trading data sets available for both internal risk management and buy-side clients, and commercializing those products as data sets, investible products, insights and/or trading signals. You will contribute to our success by:

• Building out our suite of trading data sets. These data sets could leverage internal data (subject to thorough data use considerations), publicly available data and alternative external sources of information
• Creating predictive signals, insights and frameworks so that buy-side investing clients can readily use those data sets
• Working across the markets trading business to maximize commercial impact internally
• Producing original, analytical and commercial content relating to those data sets, under the JPM Markets Data Intelligence banner
• Presenting at external conferences and podcasts, regarding the data products, market implications and investor feedback
This will be an exciting position for a talented individual who thrives on new challenges, has both finance and technical prowess, possesses true entrepreneurial spirit and enjoys working in a fast-paced trading environment. Specially, you'll have the chance to:
• Work on a significant growth area within JPM and forge the direction of this business
• Work on complex problems at the intersection of finance and technology
• Interact with Trading, Sales, Technology and Research Management and high-performing teams across those organizations, to champion change throughout the bank
  
  You demonstrate solid knowledge of financial markets, across Equities, Rates or Credit (understanding of derivatives/volatility would be ideal)
• You have extensive analytical and modelling skills
• You demonstrate strong coding experience, including coding in Python
• You have prior experience in a quantitative role on the buy-side or sell-side
• You have excellent written and verbal communication experience
• You demonstrate ability to work independently with strong attention to detail
Beyond that, we're interested in the things that make you unique: personal qualities, outside interests and achievements beyond academia and profession that demonstrate the kind of person you are and the differences you could bring to the team. This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives., J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.