FX Data and Analytics Analyst (KDB)

If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting an FX Data and Analytics Analyst to join our Foreign Exchange front office team.

Position Summary:

The FX Data and Analytics team sits in the Foreign Exchange Trading Department located at our London office. The team is responsible for all data initiatives for the department, maintaining and continuously evolving a state-of-the-art data environment. We predominantly use KDB+ and Python and are looking for an individual who has mid-level experience working with KDB+ and a genuine interest in financial markets. This is an opportunity for a candidate with strong technical skills and a passion for data engineering to work in a front office trading environment and evolve our extensive analytics that span the entire Foreign Exchange business. The role will have daily interaction with trading, etrading, relationship management, product teams and risk teams depending on the data intiative they are working on. Projects include but aren't limited to Transaction Cost Analysis, Performance Attribution, Business Intelligence, Data Science and Business Modelling. At BBH we are looking to data to help understand and drive our business forward. As an FX execution outsourcing partner data initiatives help us to act as a thought leader and an integral partner in this growing industry where clients look to their providers for essential guidance and insight to the complex nature of Foreign Exchange products. As such this role gives an excellent opportunity to advance your career.

Candidate Responsibilities:

• Be part of a Business and Technology team to support and maintain the exiting ticker plant, real-time database, historical database, and gateways for the FX Business

• Support, maintain and extend the existing KDB data plant for FX business analytics & business intelligence needs

• Be an owner and work with stakeholders from trading, etrading, relationship management, product and risk on new data science initiatives 

• Continue development of tools for backtesting and simulating model performance

• Assess and execute internal and external requests for FX data; determine optimal software tools and methods for automation

• Attend client and vendor meetings; assist in formulating solutions to meet BBH and our client needs

• Play an important role in assuring FX data integrity; help improve the dynamic mix of referential FX data across our enterprise

• Be consistently alert to current FX industry initiatives and data technology trends that impact BBH
 

Candidate Qualifications include:

• 4 year STEM college degree from an accredited institution

• 2+ years of KDB+ development experience

• Understanding of KDB+ architecture including ticker plant, real-time database, historical database, and gateways

• Solid Math and Statistics

• Knowledge of one or more a plus Python, SQL, Advanced Excel, BI tools such as Qlik, Spotfire & KX Dashboards

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• First class organizational, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities

• Genuine interest in the global financial markets
 

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under federal, state or local law.