Job Description
Join Quantum Financial Analytics as a contract Equity Options Data Analyst in San Jose, CA. This daily-pay opportunity allows you to work with cutting-edge financial data while maintaining flexibility. We're seeking a detail-oriented professional to transform complex options data into actionable insights for our trading teams. Enjoy competitive daily rates and the chance to impact high-stakes financial decisions in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Analyze equity options market data using SQL, Python, and R to identify trading opportunities
- Build and maintain automated data pipelines for real-time options pricing models
- Collaborate with traders to develop custom analytics dashboards in Tableau/Power BI
- Monitor volatility surfaces and implied volatility surfaces for anomalies
- Generate daily P&L attribution reports for options strategies
- Validate and clean datasets from multiple sources (Bloomberg, ICE, CME)
- Present findings to senior leadership with clear visualizations
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field
- 3+ years analyzing equity derivatives data (options/futures)
- Expert proficiency in SQL and Python (Pandas, NumPy)
- Strong knowledge of options pricing models (Black-Scholes, Binomial)
- Experience with financial APIs (Bloomberg, Refinitiv Eikon)
- Advanced Excel skills with VBA scripting
- Experience in daily pay or contract financial roles preferred
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision