About this opportunity
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. lists this Derivatives Analytics & AI Solutions Engineer opportunity in city of niagara falls, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Overview
Derivatives Analytics & AI Solutions Engineer – support the design, structuring, and delivery of complex hedging and financing solutions across corporate, sponsor, and institutional clients. This role sits at the intersection of financial engineering, data platforms, and AI‑driven workflow automation to enhance the team’s ability to analyze risk, price transactions, and deliver scalable derivatives solutions in a fast‑paced front‑office environment.
Key Responsibilities
Build analytical tools to support pricing, structuring, and risk analysis of derivatives transactions (e.g., interest rate, FX, and structured financing products).
Develop models and workflows to evaluate client financials, hedging strategies, deal‑contingent risk, and financing structures.
Support transaction lifecycle analytics, including scenario modeling, sensitivities, and performance tracking.
Interface with front‑office teams and clients executing OTC derivatives and hedging transactions linked to financing and capital markets activities.
Design and implement AI‑agentic workflows to streamline trade analysis and structuring workflows, client pitch and scenario generation, research, market monitoring, and idea generation.
Build internal knowledge tools to enhance access to prior trades, structures, and market insights, accelerating decision‑making in live deal environments.
Integrate AI tools with internal systems, databases, and APIs to enable real‑time analytics and execution support.
Contribute to the development of proprietary platforms supporting structured hedging solutions, portfolio hedging and risk transfer strategies, client reporting and analytics.
Translate front‑office needs into scalable SaaS‑style tools used across sales, trading, and banking teams.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
3‑5 years of experience in financial analytics, data engineering, or structured products OR a combination of software engineering and capital markets experience.
General knowledge of interest rate and currency derivatives related hedging strategy.
Familiarity with hedge accounting preferable.
Strong programming skills: Python (numpy, pandas, scipy, scikit‑learn, langchain/langgraph), JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL (preferred).
Experience building data pipelines and analytics platforms, financial or risk models.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary range: $120,000 – $180,000.
Potential discretionary bonus.
Generous employee benefits package.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid working program with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, department needs, and local laws and regulatory obligations. Some roles have greater in‑office requirements that will be communicated during the recruitment process.
EEO & Workplace Policies
Mizuho is an EEO/AA Employer – M/F/Disability/Veteran.
We participate in the E‑Verify program.
We maintain a drug‑free workplace and reserve the right to require pre‑ and post‑hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.
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Who can apply
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