Job Description
Title: Front Office Developer
Location: Chicago, IL 60606
Duration:12 Duration
Role Summary:
Key Responsibilities:
Cross-Location Collaboration
Essential Experience & Skills
Desirable Skills
Personality & Working Style
Location: Chicago, IL 60606
Duration:12 Duration
Role Summary:
- We are seeking an experienced Front Office Analyst Developer with at least 5 years of trading-floor experience to act as the primary bridge between our commercial trading desks in Chicago (and Houston) and our global Trading Analytics Technology teams in London and Pune.
Key Responsibilities:
- Become a super-user of Trading Analytics technology products and platforms, with deep knowledge of their capabilities, limitations, and best-practice workflows.
- Deliver structured training, onboarding sessions, refreshers, and tailored coaching to Chicago and Houston users.
- Promote upcoming features, releases, and enhancements, ensuring the front office understands and adopts new capabilities.
- Serve as the first point of contact for high-touch trading workflows, escalating appropriately to global technology teams.
- Front Office Analysis & Light Engineering
- Build small-scale analytical utilities and workflow enhancements using Python, Excel/VBA, and SQL.
- Pull, analyse, and visualise large data sets including price, forward curves, fundamentals, and market data via SQL, Dataiku, APIs, and internal marts.
- Create dashboards and analytical tools using Power BI, Plotly, and other visualisation frameworks.
- Reverse-engineer existing spreadsheet logic and help migrate critical workflows into more stable, maintainable solutions.
- Build lightweight integration utilities between local tools and global technology platforms and products.
Cross-Location Collaboration
- Act as Chicago s representative to global product teams in London and Pune, building a strong network of engineers, analysts, and product owners.
- Provide clear, structured feedback on user demand, pain points, and workflow gaps to influence the product roadmap.
- Participate in agile ceremonies stand-ups, planning, refinement to help translate user needs into actionable requirements.
- Document workflows, solution approaches, design sketches, and acceptance-criteria evidence.
Essential Experience & Skills
- 5 years of hands-on trading-floor experience in analytics, risk, or front-office technology.
- Background in energy or commodities trading, with understanding of price data, curves, fundamentals, and market analytics.
- Strong working knowledge of Python (essential).
- Practical experience with Excel/VBA, SQL, and large-scale data sets.
- Experience with Power BI, Plotly, and ideally Dataiku.
- Familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, and integrating multiple data sources.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced front-office environment with frequent context switching.
- Degree in a quantitative or analytical discipline (e.g., Engineering, Maths, CS, Finance).
Desirable Skills
- Experience in commodity trading analytics, supply/demand modelling, or risk systems.
- Exposure to ETL concepts and workflow orchestration.
- Awareness of AWS, SQL Server, or cloud-based analytics platforms.
- Experience with Excel add-ins is useful but not required.
Personality & Working Style
- Empathetic communicator with strong rapport-building capability trusted by traders and technologists alike.
- Curious, proactive, and solution-oriented with a strong sense of ownership.
- Thrives in a hybrid role spanning training, analysis, support, and light engineering.
- Confident representing Chicago s needs to global product groups.
- Minimum years of experience
- 8-10 years
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | www.eteaminc.com |
About Company
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Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Data Setsunmatched
- Data Visualizationunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- Financeunmatched
- Fundamental Analysisunmatched
- Market Analysisunmatched
- Mathematicsunmatched
- Microsoft SQL Serverunmatched
- Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)unmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Product Planningunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Quantitative Analysisunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Reverse Engineeringunmatched
- Riskunmatched
- Risk Modelingunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Spreadsheetsunmatched
- Standup Meetingsunmatched
- Trading/Stockbrokingunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Workflow Analysisunmatched
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