Operations Trader

Overview

Operations Trader for IMC Trading’s Index Options desk, executing and monitoring index options strategies in real time and owning day-to-day book health.

What you'll do

• Execute and monitor Nifty and Bank Nifty index options strategies in real time within risk and margin limits.
• Manage contract rolls from back-month to front-month strategies and maintain supporting automation.
• Run post-trade analysis on fills, market share, and execution quality.
• Own production-health tasks such as reconciliation and network connectivity checks.
• Investigate execution issues end-to-end by tracing latency and information timelines across systems.
• Build and maintain automation in Python and Bash (e.g., auto-liquidation and roll automation).
• Partner with Quant Researchers, Developers, Risk, and Operations to troubleshoot production issues and improve execution reliability.

What you'll need

• Prior experience in trading operations, execution, or production support in a proprietary trading firm, market maker, or similar high-frequency environment.
• Strong foundation in probability, statistics, and quantitative modelling.
• Experience working with large datasets and time-series data.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language, preferably Python.
• Demonstrated ownership of production/operational tasks like reconciliation, connectivity, and monitoring.
• Ability to investigate execution or system performance, including latency analysis and timeline tracing.
• Comfort operating under pressure during live market hours, including trading halts and reconciliations.

Details

• Location: Mumbai, India.