Principal Systems Analyst

The Role

We are seeking an experienced systems analyst to help with the design and development of next-generation trading analytics systems. This role is focused on helping build scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You'll collaborate across teams, work closely with developers and product owners, variety of business and technology groups, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment.

• Become a subject matter expert for the applications that provide electronic trading analytics capabilities.
• Learn the electronic trading domain
• Represent the development team in discussions with business stakeholders
• Understand low level details of the applications, understand source code, be able to communicate how the application works to non-technical audience
• Learn new technologies and use GenAI tools to help understand and document source code
• Be able to build architectural and system workflow diagrams
• Gather data by writing queries (KDB/Q) and be able to drill into business scenarios by understanding data from a very large data set along with the system architecture
• Lead system design, translate business requirements to technical details working with developers and product owners
• Breakdown and manage the work items (JIRA epics and stories) for developers and QA
• Facilitate discussions with different stakeholders on team initiatives
• Support production and non-production environments, be able to answer inquiries from the business support teams

The Expertise You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 9+ years of Systems Analyst and Project Management experience
• Prior hands-on software development experience
• Experience in complex distributed systems, especially trading systems
• Experienced in SDLC tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experienced in collaboration tools
• Experienced in crafting architecture and system workflow diagrams, using tools like Visio, Draw.io, etc
• Data modeling and design background
• Experienced in SQL and worked on large data sets for data analytics
• Experience in applications on Linux/Unix environments and experienced in user commands or scripting
• Experience in cloud patterns and deployments especially in AWS
• Familiarity with AI developer assist tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
• Experience in Capital Markets or Brokerage systems, especially trading analytics is a big plus
• KDB+/Q experience is a plus

The Skills You Bring:

• Ability to understand complex, end-to-end systems and identify performance, scalability, or resilience bottlenecks.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a collaborative team environment.
• Self-driven innovation and comfort working with leadership.
• Willingness to support production systems and applications releases, including occasional weekend support.