Business Intelligence Researcher

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Jump Trading’s Business Intelligence team is focused on empowering the firm with analysis and insight that maximizes revenue and influences high-stakes global decision making. This team develops data pipelines, supports an enterprise BI analytics platform, and provides research across many areas of the organization. At Jump, solving hard problems with cutting edge technology is our business. Jump relies heavily on open-source solutions in our large and distributed global infrastructure that includes several large high performance computing environments, a large low latency trading infrastructure, and significant supporting infrastructure. As a Business Intelligence Researcher in Shanghai, you will have the hands-on opportunity to work with all areas of the organization while gaining a keen understanding of the use of data across the firm.

What You'll Do:

• Work on and lead efforts that leverage technology to surface meaningful business intelligence insights
• Work closely with Developers, Researchers, and Data Analysts to solve challenging business problems
• Work with technology teams on development of process design and workflow, data management, etc.
• Liaise with areas of research and trading on variety of topics, including post-trade statistical analysis of trading performance
• Broadcast appropriate information and insights globally, to connect the company across regions 
• Produce research for Jump to educate and influence exchange decision making with respect to market structure, product availability, etc. 
• Other duties as assigned or needed

Skills You’ll Need:

• Strong analytical skills, ability to connect dots across different data sources, processes, and departments
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Engineering experience working with programming languages for automation tasks (Python, etc.)
• Practical understanding of database concepts and applications, ETL Pipelining
• Experience with data analysis, SQL, Linux, BI Platforms such as MicroStrategy or Tableau, Microsoft Office Suite
• Untiringly inquisitive, self-starter, scrappy, creative, good instincts, and a nose for making money
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and changing priorities
• Working seamlessly across the organization, wearer of many hats
• Being a connector, i.e. if they cannot solve a problem, they will help connect the user with someone who can
• Ability to quickly learn business concepts, internalize priorities, and network effectively with peers
• Reliable and predictable availability
• Deep interest and passion for trading and global markets