Principal Systems Analyst

• 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.