CareerPlan

Quantitative Analyst, Index Operations

Chicago, IL, USFull-time$98k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Support day-to-day maintenance, calculation, and distribution of Cboe US Derivatives and Equity-based Indices.

Role type

Senior IC quantitative analyst (index operations)

Builds

Real-time and end-of-day index calculations, data validation, and client support for US Index business

Domain

Financial markets / Derivatives / Equity indices

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Index calculation methodologies, data administration, QA, incident management, R, Python, MS-Excel, mathematical modeling

Preferred skills

Derivatives experience, theoretical options pricing, complex modeling debugging

Responsibilities

Run daily replication and calculation models, perform periodic rebalances, validate index values and corporate actions, resolve operational issues with third parties, maintain SOPs, support client onboarding and queries, develop automation tolling

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC