Principal Systems Analyst

We are currently sourcing for a Principal Systems Analyst to work in Boston, MA!

The Team

The Wealth Trade Management Engineering group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for the Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows.

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, a 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, and be able to communicate how the application works to a 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 dataset along with the system architecture.

• Lead system design and translate business requirements into technical details while working with developers and product owners.

• Break down and manage work items (Jira epics and stories) for developers and QA.

• Facilitate discussions with different stakeholders on team initiatives.

• Support production and non-production environments and be able to answer inquiries from 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.

• Experience with SDLC tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.

• Experience with collaboration tools.

• Experience crafting architecture and system workflow diagrams using tools like Visio, Draw.io, etc.

• Data modeling and design background.

• Experience with SQL and working with large datasets for data analytics.

• Experience with applications in Linux/Unix environments and familiarity with user commands or scripting.

• Experience with 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 application releases, including occasional weekend support.