Principal Systems Analyst

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.

location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $66 - 67 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
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

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