Head of Asia Execution Trading - Singapore

• Design, implement, and refine on-chain trading strategies, reducing latency to improve tick-to-trade to fill orders.
• Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trading opportunities, leveraging data from blockchain networks and decentralised exchanges.
• Build real-time, automated trading algorithms that interact directly with smart contracts and decentralised protocols.
• Leverage custom datasets and analytics tooling to guide model development and execution logic.
• Deploy robust risk frameworks to ensure capital efficiency and downside protection in volatile markets. 
• Work closely with other traders, developers, and data scientists to enhance trading models, share insights, and drive collective success.

• Excellent academic record from a highly reputable university, Masters or PhD preferred, in Mathematics, Physics, Operational Research or related fields of study.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Quantitative Trading, preferably in a market-making or latency-sensitive context. Quant Strats with Delta-Neutral, Delta 1, Vol, and Market Making background are desired too.
• Does not need to be Crypto, but they need to be willing to move into it.
• Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript, Rust skills and experience will be highly advantageous. A familiarity with Solidity and smart contracts is a plus.
• Curiosity and conviction about crypto and decentralised markets, immediate experience in crypto is a plus, not essential, but a willingness to move into the space is.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and exploiting trading opportunities.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and evolving market structures, and to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

• Responsible for all corporate actions while overseeing the daily work of 2 juniors
• Manage trade entry and affirmation process (via PMS), and monitor trade settlements
• Custodian and Prime Broker reconciliations
• Liaise with prime brokers, fund administrator and system vendors on break resolution
• Cash management - margin and collateral, facilitating payments
• Monitor short positions and fulfil disclosure obligations

• Weekly NAV estimates
• Point of liaison with prime brokers and fund administrator
• NAV and P/L review, ensure accuracy of accounting entries against fund administrator
• Checker of monthly fund valuation
• Calculating investor and distributor fee rebates

• Monitor fund capital activities
• Streamline operations process, look for deficiencies and improvements.
• Work along with Risk and Finance on operations control and annual fund audit
• Ad-hoc projects (e.g. investors due diligence, broker onboarding)

• Degree holder in Accounting and Finance or related discipline
• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in Fund Accounting and/or Hedge Fund Operations
• Basic understanding of financial products (Options, Fixed Income, Swaps, NDFs)
• Solid knowledge/experience with PMS systems, proficient in Microsoft Office, with Python skills being highly beneficial
• Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude, ability to multi-task and innovative, with great attention to detail.
• Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps – Financial Services, CI/CD, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Splunk

I’m looking for a DevOps Engineer for a leading consulting company based in London. You need to have strong experience with DevOps and Development within production, supporting multiple applications. You need to have experience working on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

Key Skills

• CI/CD
• Python
• AWS
• Banking experience

Hybrid 3 days per week from Battersea.

Offering up to £70k salary.

Must hold British or EU Citizenship or ILR - no sponsorship available.

Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps – Financial Services, CI/CD, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Splunk

We are looking for an Application Manager or Application Specialist to join our client. You’ll play a vital role in keeping complex, business-critical applications running smoothly.

• Act as the central link between business users, IT teams, and external software providers
• Translate business needs into technical solutions by managing updates, releases, and testing processes
• Drive the evolution of applications — ensuring performance, uptime, and cost-efficiency
• Implement automation and continuous integration strategies using DevOps practices

Requirements:

• Solid experience in application management
• Hands-on background in both development and application operations, ideally with exposure to DevOps
• Familiarity with programming languages
• Skilled in requirements engineering and writing functional specifications
• Excellent command of German and English

Are you an experienced Senior JAVA software engineer with a passion for clean code? Have you been involved in the rearchitecture of large monolithic applications into Microservices? Are you interested in becoming part of a team that is responsible for API development, which enables developers to develop their own microservices? If so, this could be the perfect Senior JAVA Software Engineer job for you!

You will join a specialist team based in Zurich take responsibility for API development. The team developed an integration engine that enables developers to develop their own microservices. They are a crack team that take responsibility for digitalisation efforts.

They do this by following a strict Agile approach to development, making use of high test coverage and also Cucumber for BDD. The core competencies are strong JAVA development skills, good knowledge of the Spring framework (Boot, Integration), microservices and Kafka for streaming. Given the nature of their work, there is containerization using Docker & Kubernetes and their cloud provider is AWS.

As part of this team you will get the best of both worlds in the sense that you will work for a large well funded firm, but get to operate without as much of the classic red tape associated with a large environment.

The company has a very flexible work from home policy, you are expected to be available to come to the office when needed but otherwise are flexible. 

You will ideally speak fluent German, however candidates will be considered without the language skills.

If you are interested in finding out more about this Senior JAVA Software engineer job, please send your CV to yves.amar@nicollcurtin.com or alternatively you can call me on 044 5785 330.

I have a new role for a senior platform engineer with a financial services client of mine based in Galway. This role will fall within the application/infrastructure security team, therefore allowing you to gain knowledge and experience in the cybersecurity area.
 

Skills required:

• Cloud/Devops experience and data skills
• Experience in automation and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• Knowledge of application security (e.g., Pen Testing, SCA, SAST, DAST) and API protocols (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, etc.) is a plus
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 and secure coding practices

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain security tools for CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Evaluate and leverage technologies to eliminate application vulnerabilities.
• Improve automation, test coverage, and production health.
• Collaborate with business partners to deliver effective solutions.
• Document and share processes to promote knowledge transfer.

We're looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager knowledgeable about the Gaming industry and how developers can maximise revenue by leveraging on platforms and other tech tools and services. This role will focus on the Greater China Region, and is based in the Singapore office.

Responsibilities:

• Think creatively with prominent companies in the gaming industry to build durable, long-term, and scaled partnerships by understanding their strategy and goals
• Represent the company and provide thought leadership and perspectives in external meetings with partner executives
• Drive adoption and integration of new features from gaming platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, design, marketing, and finance
• Track, analyze and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends as they relate to partner relationships at scale
• Use analysis and gaming industry expertise to source and develop new partner opportunities
• Manage and consult existing partners on building up their success on the platform.
• Adapt quickly to product changes and limitations, and communicate these strategically to stakeholders both internally and externally

Requirements:

• Relevant experience in business development or account management
• Degree in a highly quantitative field, such as Economics, Business Commerce, or equivalent experience preferred
• Understanding or prior experience of the Greater China Region
• Experience working effectively and cross-functionally with all levels of management, both internally and externally
• Ability to define, initiate and drive business opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Good understanding of the internet industry
• Deep domain knowledge of the gaming industry preferred
• Ability to handle day to day operational work to also structure, negotiate, and maintain significant and complex strategic relationships with game companies advantageous
• Ability to identify and leverage trends within industry of expertise/focus

This is a contract role based in Singapore.

Are you passionate about solving complex problems with data? We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our client’s team in Singapore and drive impactful solutions in the financial services space.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy machine learning models using supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.

• Apply outlier and anomaly detection methods to improve risk monitoring and business decision-making.

• Work with large, complex datasets to deliver actionable insights for high-stakes projects.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business, technology, and compliance) to translate requirements into data-driven solutions.

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of data science practices and methodologies within the team.

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of hands-on data science experience in a banking or financial services setting.

• Strong expertise in machine learning (supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection).

• Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, and modern ML libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).

• Analytical mindset with experience handling large and complex datasets.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to explain models and insights clearly.

Nice to Have

• Experience in banking, financial crime, AML/KYC, or network link analytics.

• Knowledge of MAS/HKMA AML/CFT regulatory requirements.

• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and MLOps practices.