Job Description
Join our dynamic finance team as a part-time Equity Options Data Analyst in Seattle. You'll be instrumental in transforming complex market data into actionable insights for our institutional clients. This hybrid role combines deep financial analysis with cutting-edge data science techniques to optimize trading strategies and risk management frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Analyze real-time equity options market data using Python/R to identify volatility patterns and pricing anomalies
- Develop and maintain automated data pipelines for options pricing models (Black-Scholes, Binomial)
- Create interactive dashboards in Tableau/Power BI to visualize options Greeks and risk metrics
- Collaborate with traders to validate quantitative models against market conditions
- Conduct backtesting of options strategies using historical market data
- Prepare executive reports on market trends and portfolio exposures
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field (Master's preferred)
- 2+ years experience with equity options pricing and market data analysis
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, Python (Pandas, NumPy), and R
- Strong understanding of options Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega) and implied volatility
- Experience with Bloomberg Terminal and API integration
- Portfolio demonstrating data visualization projects (Tableau/Power BI)
- FINRA Series 7/63 or willingness to obtain