Front Office Developer

eTeam Inc.

Chicago, IL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Best Practices, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Communication Skills, Data Management, Data Sets, Data Visualization, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Finance, Fundamental Analysis, Market Analysis, Mathematics, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Onboarding, Power BI, Product Planning, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Quantitative Analysis, Reporting Dashboards, Reverse Engineering, Risk, Risk Modeling, SQL (Structured Query Language), Spreadsheets, Standup Meetings, Trading/Stockbroking, Training/Teaching, Workflow Analysis
LOCATION
Chicago, IL
POSTED
10 days ago
Title: Front Office Developer
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

About the Company

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eTeam Inc.

Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.
COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Other/Not Classified
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
www.eteaminc.com