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Principal Systems Analyst

Posted 4 weeks ago by Randstad Digital

Job Summary

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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

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

Skills

trading systems

AWS

Maven

Artifactory

AI

large data

cloud

collaboration tools

Confluence

CI/CD

data analytics

analytics systems

distributed systems

GenAI tools

GitHub Copilot

GitHub

uDeploy

Computer Science

Information Technology

JIRA

Jenkins

KDB+

Visio

SQL

scripting

software development

system architecture

SDLC

analytical

communication

organizational skills

leadership

resilient

resilience

Self-driven

high-performance

collaborative

architecture

Brokerage

business requirements

business support

Capital Markets

Data modeling

design and development

electronic trading

trading infrastructure

workflow diagrams

crafting

innovation

Investments

production systems

Project Management

QA

Learn new technologies

scalability

system design

trading

Rate:
Not specified
Location:
Boston
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior

Take-Home Pay

Not Available

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