Desk Strategist – ETF Primary and Secondary Trading Workflow, Senior Associate/ Manager, Fixed Income Division

Morgan Stanley · Mumbai · Posted 2026-05-14

Tech stack: Python

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Responsibilities:
- Beyond technical and business skills, the candidate is expected to be able to communicate well, adapt rapidly and learn fast. Sound judgment will be required to understand and reformulate requirements, evaluate risks, develop adapted solutions finding the right balance between tactical and strategic solutions and offer the best value to our clients, with respect to regulations, compliance and firm procedures.
- ETF creation and redemption execution and Build tools to enhance the management of systematic market making book
- Develop clean, well designed, and reusable code to compute ETF NAV.
- Generate visualization of research and backtest results to support real-time decision making of the ETF trading desk
- Work on sophisticated models to help traders accurately assess ETF risk and values
- Collaborate closely with the ETF trading desk to support daily data and analytics needs
- ETF creation and redemption execution and analysis opportunities for the FIRM.
- Help form a clearing house for emerging issues and requirements and manage them to resolution.
Qualifications:
- Strong understanding of the ETF Business, Primary flows, Fixed Income business and derivative pricing
- Strong quantitative skills; knowledge of ETF/macro products and financing rate is a plus
- Business analysis discipline; Digging deep beneath the surface to develop the real business requirement.
- Strong communication & networking skills.
- Project leadership; bringing different teams together to execute on a plan towards a common goal.
- Intermediate/advanced Python skills required Intermediate statistics skills required Intermediate knowledge of database required.

Qualifications

- Strong understanding of the ETF Business, Primary flows, Fixed Income business and derivative pricing
- Strong quantitative skills; knowledge of ETF/macro products and financing rate is a plus
- Business analysis discipline; Digging deep beneath the surface to develop the real business requirement.
- Strong communication & networking skills.
- Project leadership; bringing different teams together to execute on a plan towards a common goal.
- Intermediate/advanced Python skills required Intermediate statistics skills required Intermediate knowledge of database required.

Responsibilities

- Beyond technical and business skills, the candidate is expected to
- be able to communicate well, adapt rapidly and learn fast.
- Sound judgment will be required to understand and reformulate requirements, evaluate risks, develop adapted solutions finding the right balance between tactical and strategic solutions and offer the best value to our clients, with respect to regulations, compliance and firm procedures.
- ETF creation and redemption execution and Build tools to enhance the management of systematic market making book
- Develop clean, well designed, and reusable code to compute ETF NAV.
- Generate visualization of research and backtest results to support real-time decision making of the ETF trading desk
- Work on sophisticated models to help traders accurately assess ETF risk and values
- Collaborate closely with the ETF trading desk to support daily data and analytics needs
- ETF creation and redemption execution and analysis opportunities for the FIRM.
- Help form a clearing house for emerging issues and requirements and manage them to resolution.

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