Trading Analyst (Python)
Maven Securities · Chicago, Illinois, US
Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep e...
Job description
Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate. THE ROLE: You'll join an Options Market Making desk as a Trading Analyst. You'll analyse trading data, prototype strategies with traders, and build tools that help the desk make better decisions. We've invested in modern tooling — including AI — so you can move fast and spend your time on the problems that matter. Markets generate questions faster than anyone can answer them, and your job is to figure out which ones matter, find good answers, and explain what you've found to people who'll act on it. We're looking for someone who's curious about markets, thinks creatively about problems, and is willing to challenge an answer — whoever or whatever produced it. WHAT THE WORK LOOKS LIKE: - Digging into trading data, surfacing patterns, and producing analysis the desk can act on - Working directly with traders...