Principal - Quant Trading

Apollo
London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Capital Markets, Trading & QuantExperience: 7-12 yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Prioritization","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Seeking a highly analytical Quant Trading Principal to join Apollo’s PM & Trading Strats in London. You’ll build and own quantitative tools, lead end-to-end desk projects, advance alpha research, and collaborate with Engineering/Data to scale tooling for London trading across Corporate Bonds, CDS, Loans, Equities, and Macro, leveraging AI-enabled workflows to drive investment decisions.

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Apollo
Apollo
5 months ago

Principal - Quant Trading

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Job Summary

Seeking a highly analytical Quant Trading Principal to join Apollo’s PM & Trading Strats in London. You’ll build and own quantitative tools, lead end-to-end desk projects, advance alpha research, and collaborate with Engineering/Data to scale tooling for London trading across Corporate Bonds, CDS, Loans, Equities, and Macro, leveraging AI-enabled workflows to drive investment decisions.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Capital Markets, Trading & Quant
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and own quantitative tools & analytics that support alpha generation for London Trading, while coordinating closely with peers in NY to ensure alignment across the broader platform.
  • •Drive end-to-end delivery of desk critical tools, working directly with traders and business leadership to identify opportunities, source data, design models or logic, and lead implementation, rollout, and iteration.
  • •Lead alpha research and signal development by structuring datasets, running backtests and analysis, pressure testing assumptions, and translating outputs into scalable tools and monitoring.
  • •Partner with Engineering and Data to improve the reliability and scalability of Strats tooling, including data pipelines, APIs, compute, monitoring, and documentation.
  • •Help build out systematic capabilities across the London trading business, supporting signal to trade workflows and more scalable decision making across Corporate Bonds, CDS, Loans, Equities, and Rates, in alignment with the broader GCC Strats agenda.

Key Requirements

  • •7–12 years of experience in quantitative finance, strats, trading analytics, or a comparable role on the buy side or sell side.
  • •Strong programming skills, with Python required; C++ or Java is a plus; track record of building real tools used by investment teams, including analytics, dashboards, screens, alerts, and data pipelines.
  • •Solid foundation in statistics, applied math, and modeling; practical experience working with large and varied datasets including market data, issuer level data, positions, exposures, and liquidity measures.
  • •Proven ability to operate in a high touch environment with traders and senior stakeholders; strong communication, clear ownership, and prioritization instincts.
  • •Degree in quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science; advanced degree preferred but not required with strong relevant experience.
Experience:7-12 yearsQuantitative financeTrading analytics
Education:Master's
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipPrioritizationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonC++JavaLLMMachine learningData pipelinesAPIs

Company Brief

Apollo
Global alternative investment manager specializing in private equity, credit, and real assets, managing capital for institutional and individual investors across multiple strategies and geographies.
Industry: Asset Management
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 1990
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